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Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Los Angeles, CA

March 28, 2022Santa Barbara County, California

NWS Los Angeles, CA issued this flash flood warning at Mar 28, 2022, 5:54 AM PDT for Santa Barbara County, California. It was in force for 104 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 28, 2022, 5:54 AM PDT (12:54 UTC)
Expired: Mar 28, 2022, 7:38 AM PDT
In force: 104 min
Issued by: NWS Los Angeles, CA
Area: Storm-based polygon
Damage threat: Considerable
Flood severity: None

County Santa Barbara County, CA

The radar

The Vandenberg AFB radar (KVBX), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:55 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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What forecasters said that day

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

NWS Los Angeles, CA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Mar 28, 5:52 AM PDT, 2 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 28, 5:52 AM PDT, 2 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Mar 27, 11:56 PM PDT, 5 hours 58 minutes before

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Local storm report, Mar 28, 3:29 AM PDT, 2 hours 25 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Los Angeles, CA issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 28, 3:01 AM PDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LOX	San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara	4 hr
Mar 28, 5:03 AM PDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LOX	Santa Barbara, Ventura	4 hr
Mar 28, 9:34 AM PDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LOX	Los Angeles, Ventura	116 min
Mar 28, 10:54 AM PDT	Special Marine Warning	LOX		43 min
Mar 28, 11:32 AM PDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LOX	Los Angeles	118 min
Mar 28, 11:39 AM PDT	Special Marine Warning	LOX		66 min
Mar 28, 11:57 AM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LOX	San Luis Obispo	63 min
Mar 28, 12:45 PM PDT	Special Marine Warning	LOX		60 min
Mar 28, 1:49 PM PDT	Special Marine Warning	LOX		86 min
Mar 28, 3:29 PM PDT	Special Marine Warning	LOX		91 min

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.