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Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Los Angeles, CA

January 26, 2025Los Angeles County, California

NWS Los Angeles, CA issued this flash flood warning at Jan 26, 2025, 7:40 PM PST for Los Angeles County, California. It was in force for 2 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
Jan 26, 2025, 7:40 PM PST (03:40 UTC)
Expired
Jan 26, 2025, 9:56 PM PST
In force
2 hr
Issued by
NWS Los Angeles, CA
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
None

County Los Angeles County, CA

The radar

The Santa Ana Mts radar (KSOX), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:44 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 00:00Z, 3.7 hours before the alert went out and 184 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 00:00Z on 2025-01-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 2025-01-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -3 square meters per square second.1939587897117136Sfc1 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
1 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-57 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1324 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
84 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-3 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
39 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 26, 5:33 PM PSTAreal Flood AdvisoryLOXLos Angeles3 hr
Jan 26, 5:59 PM PSTAreal Flood AdvisoryLOXSanta Barbara5 hr
Jan 26, 6:19 PM PSTAreal Flood AdvisoryLOXLos Angeles, Ventura3 hr
Jan 26, 6:21 PM PSTSpecial Marine WarningLOX84 min
Jan 26, 6:31 PM PSTAreal Flood AdvisoryLOXVentura3 hr
Jan 26, 7:18 PM PSTSpecial Weather StatementLOXLos Angeles87 min
Jan 26, 7:53 PM PSTSpecial Marine WarningLOX112 min
Jan 26, 8:08 PM PSTSpecial Marine WarningLOX112 min
Jan 26, 8:24 PM PSTAreal Flood AdvisoryLOXVentura4 hr
Jan 26, 8:32 PM PSTAreal Flood AdvisoryLOXLos Angeles4 hr
Jan 26, 9:55 PM PSTAreal Flood AdvisoryLOXLos Angeles, Ventura2 hr
Jan 26, 10:21 PM PSTSpecial Marine WarningLOX24 min
Jan 26, 10:53 PM PSTAreal Flood AdvisoryLOXLos Angeles2 hr
Jan 26, 10:53 PM PSTSpecial Marine WarningLOX49 min
Jan 26, 11:08 PM PSTSpecial Marine WarningLOX37 min
Jan 26, 11:39 PM PSTSpecial Marine WarningLOX36 min
Jan 27, 12:31 AM PSTAreal Flood AdvisoryLOXLos Angeles3 hr
Jan 27, 1:52 AM PSTAreal Flood AdvisoryLOXLos Angeles2 hr
Jan 27, 1:57 AM PSTAreal Flood AdvisoryLOXLos Angeles, Ventura2 hr
Jan 27, 2:44 AM PSTSpecial Marine WarningLOX61 min
Jan 27, 3:03 AM PSTSpecial Marine WarningLOX42 min
Jan 27, 3:15 AM PSTFrost AdvisoryLOXLos Angeles, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Ventura30 hr
Jan 27, 3:15 AM PSTFreeze WarningLOXLos Angeles, Santa Barbara, Ventura30 hr
Jan 27, 3:38 AM PSTSpecial Marine WarningLOX37 min
Jan 27, 3:51 AM PSTSpecial Marine WarningLOX114 min

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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.