Alert archive / California / Flash Flood Warnings in 2022
Flash Flood Warning 109, NWS Las Vegas, NV
NWS Las Vegas, NV issued this flash flood warning at Aug 5, 2022, 8:46 AM PDT for Inyo County, California. It was in force for 4 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 5, 2022, 8:46 AM PDT (15:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 5, 2022, 12:45 PM PDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Las Vegas, NV
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Damage threat
- Considerable
- Flood severity
- None
County Inyo County, CA
The radar
The Edwards AFB radar (KEYX), 158 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:44 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
Las Vegas, NV (KVEF), launched 12:00Z, 3.8 hours before the alert went out and 168 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 692 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -17 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1113 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -18 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 21 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Las Vegas, NV wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Aug 5, 1:40 AM PDT, 7 hours 6 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 5, 1:40 AM PDT, 7 hours 6 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Las Vegas, NV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 4, 5:28 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | VEF | Lincoln | 47 min |
| Aug 4, 5:53 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | VEF | Lincoln | 3 hr |
| Aug 5, 9:20 AM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | VEF | Esmeralda, Nye | 3 hr |
| Aug 5, 12:47 PM PDT | Areal Flood Advisory | VEF | Esmeralda, Nye | 3 hr |
| Aug 5, 6:52 AM PDT | Areal Flood Advisory | VEF | Inyo | 2 hr |
| Aug 5, 4:05 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | VEF | San Bernardino | 3 hr |
| Aug 4, 5:49 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | VEF | Mohave | 2 hr |
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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.