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Flash Flood Watch 3, NWS Phoenix, AZ

July 24, 2019Riverside County, San Bernardino County, California

NWS Phoenix, AZ issued this flash flood watch at Jul 24, 2019, 11:58 AM PDT for Riverside County, San Bernardino County, California. It was in force for 8 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 24, 2019, 11:58 AM PDT (18:58 UTC)
Expired
Jul 24, 2019, 8:20 PM PDT
In force
8 hr
Issued by
NWS Phoenix, AZ
Flood severity
None

Counties Riverside County, CA, San Bernardino County, CA

The radar

The Santa Ana Mts radar (KSOX), 152 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:59 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

San Diego, CA (KNKX), launched 12:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 195 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, San Diego, CA at 12:00Z on 2019-07-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, San Diego, CA at 12:00Z on 2019-07-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -8 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
2384 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
9 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-8 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
18 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flash flood watch went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Phoenix, AZ wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood watch went out at Jul 24, 11:53 AM PDT, 5 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 24, 11:53 AM PDT, 5 minutes before
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Phoenix, AZ issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 23, 5:05 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementPSRGila40 min
Jul 23, 5:11 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPSRGila37 min
Jul 23, 5:36 PM PDTFlash Flood WarningPSRGila4 hr
Jul 23, 5:44 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPSRGila, Pinal31 min
Jul 23, 5:54 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementPSR51 min
Jul 23, 5:58 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPSRYuma32 min
Jul 23, 6:06 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementPSR39 min
Jul 24, 4:55 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementPSRGila50 min
Jul 23, 5:48 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementPSRImperial42 min
Jul 23, 5:50 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementPSRImperial40 min
Jul 23, 6:19 PM PDTFlash Flood WarningPSRImperial4 hr

Nearby

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.