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Flash Flood Warning 30, NWS Los Angeles, CA

March 30, 2024Santa Barbara County, California

NWS Los Angeles, CA issued this flash flood warning at Mar 30, 2024, 8:13 PM PDT for Santa Barbara County, California. It was in force for 47 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 30, 2024, 8:13 PM PDT (03:13 UTC)
Expired: Mar 30, 2024, 9:00 PM PDT
In force: 47 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 03:15 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 30, 4:22 PM PDT, 3 hours 51 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 30, 4:22 PM PDT, 3 hours 51 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Mar 30, 3:23 PM PDT, 4 hours 50 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Mar 30, 4:26 PM PDT, 3 hours 47 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 30, 5:24 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LOX	Santa Barbara	51 min
Mar 30, 6:24 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LOX	Santa Barbara, Ventura	51 min
Mar 30, 7:19 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LOX	Santa Barbara	41 min
Mar 30, 7:32 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LOX	Santa Barbara, Ventura	88 min
Mar 30, 7:47 PM PDT	Special Marine Warning	LOX		118 min
Mar 30, 8:03 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LOX	Santa Barbara	57 min
Mar 30, 9:13 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LOX	Santa Barbara, Ventura	77 min
Mar 30, 9:45 PM PDT	Special Marine Warning	LOX		2 hr
Mar 30, 10:20 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LOX	Santa Barbara, Ventura	85 min
Mar 30, 11:43 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LOX	Los Angeles, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Ventura	92 min
Mar 30, 11:44 PM PDT	Special Marine Warning	LOX		2 hr
Mar 31, 12:32 AM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LOX	Los Angeles	46 min
Mar 31, 1:16 AM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LOX	Los Angeles, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Ventura	89 min
Mar 31, 1:44 AM PDT	Special Marine Warning	LOX		2 hr
Mar 31, 3:43 AM PDT	Special Marine Warning	LOX		2 hr
Mar 31, 5:43 AM PDT	Special Marine Warning	LOX		107 min
Mar 31, 7:31 AM PDT	Special Marine Warning	LOX		119 min
Mar 31, 9:31 AM PDT	Special Marine Warning	LOX		119 min
Mar 31, 2:24 PM PDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LOX	Santa Barbara, Ventura	4 hr
Mar 31, 3:25 PM PDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	LOX	Ventura	80 min
Mar 31, 3:44 PM PDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LOX	Ventura	3 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.