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Flash Flood Warning 24, NWS Los Angeles, CA

October 14, 2025Los Angeles County, California

NWS Los Angeles, CA issued this flash flood warning at Oct 14, 2025, 9:53 AM PDT for Los Angeles County, California. It was in force for 3 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: Oct 14, 2025, 9:53 AM PDT (16:53 UTC)
Expired: Oct 14, 2025, 1:00 PM PDT
In force: 3 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 16:52 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

San Diego, CA (KNKX), launched 12:00Z, 4.9 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 18 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -10 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 911 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 64 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 132 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 141 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 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 Oct 14, 9:46 AM PDT, 7 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 14, 9:46 AM PDT, 7 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Oct 14, 9:34 AM PDT, 19 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Oct 14, 9:35 AM PDT, 18 minutes before

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Local storm report, Oct 14, 9:39 AM PDT, 14 minutes before

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Local storm report, Oct 14, 9:41 AM PDT, 12 minutes before

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Local storm report, Oct 14, 9:47 AM PDT, 6 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Oct 14, 9:51 AM PDT, 2 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
Oct 13, 10:14 PM PDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LOX	San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara	5 hr
Oct 13, 10:14 PM PDT	Special Marine Warning	LOX		2 hr
Oct 13, 10:15 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LOX		30 min
Oct 13, 10:23 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LOX	San Luis Obispo	22 min
Oct 13, 10:34 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LOX	San Luis Obispo	41 min
Oct 13, 10:47 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LOX	San Luis Obispo	28 min
Oct 13, 11:12 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LOX	San Luis Obispo	93 min
Oct 13, 11:15 PM PDT	Tornado Warning	LOX	San Luis Obispo	30 min
Oct 13, 11:21 PM PDT	Tornado Warning	LOX	San Luis Obispo	54 min
Oct 13, 11:54 PM PDT	Flash Flood Warning	LOX	San Luis Obispo	4 hr
Oct 14, 12:18 AM PDT	Special Marine Warning	LOX		117 min
Oct 14, 12:23 AM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LOX	Santa Barbara	97 min
Oct 14, 12:38 AM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LOX	Santa Barbara	52 min
Oct 14, 1:01 AM PDT	Flash Flood Warning	LOX	San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara	4 hr
Oct 14, 1:21 AM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LOX	Santa Barbara	54 min
Oct 14, 1:27 AM PDT	Special Marine Warning	LOX		93 min
Oct 14, 1:56 AM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LOX	Santa Barbara	34 min
Oct 14, 1:59 AM PDT	Special Marine Warning	LOX		31 min
Oct 14, 2:00 AM PDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LOX	Ventura	8 hr
Oct 14, 2:05 AM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LOX	Santa Barbara	25 min
Oct 14, 2:10 AM PDT	Special Marine Warning	LOX		35 min
Oct 14, 2:20 AM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LOX	Santa Barbara	25 min
Oct 14, 2:30 AM PDT	Special Marine Warning	LOX		45 min
Oct 14, 2:37 AM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LOX		53 min
Oct 14, 2:38 AM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LOX	Santa Barbara	52 min
Oct 14, 2:58 AM PDT	Special Marine Warning	LOX		62 min
Oct 14, 3:04 AM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LOX	Santa Barbara	86 min
Oct 14, 3:06 AM PDT	Special Marine Warning	LOX		84 min
Oct 14, 3:19 AM PDT	Flash Flood Warning	LOX	Santa Barbara	3 hr
Oct 14, 3:33 AM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LOX	Santa Barbara	57 min
Oct 14, 3:42 AM PDT	Special Marine Warning	LOX		93 min
Oct 14, 3:58 AM PDT	Special Marine Warning	LOX		92 min
Oct 14, 4:19 AM PDT	Special Marine Warning	LOX		86 min
Oct 14, 4:26 AM PDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LOX	Santa Barbara	4 hr
Oct 14, 4:27 AM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LOX	Santa Barbara	63 min
Oct 14, 4:40 AM PDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LOX	Los Angeles	7 hr
Oct 14, 4:45 AM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LOX		45 min
Oct 14, 5:01 AM PDT	Special Marine Warning	LOX		89 min
Oct 14, 5:15 AM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LOX	Ventura	60 min
Oct 14, 5:25 AM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LOX	Santa Barbara	50 min
Oct 14, 5:28 AM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LOX	Ventura	47 min
Oct 14, 5:37 AM PDT	Special Marine Warning	LOX		83 min
Oct 14, 5:39 AM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LOX	Los Angeles	66 min
Oct 14, 6:00 AM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LOX	Ventura	60 min
Oct 14, 6:21 AM PDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LOX	Los Angeles, Ventura	6 hr
Oct 14, 6:25 AM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LOX	Ventura	50 min
Oct 14, 6:35 AM PDT	Special Marine Warning	LOX		85 min
Oct 14, 6:59 AM PDT	Special Marine Warning	LOX		61 min
Oct 14, 7:04 AM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LOX	Ventura	56 min
Oct 14, 7:15 AM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LOX	Ventura	45 min
Oct 14, 7:41 AM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LOX	Ventura	49 min
Oct 14, 7:49 AM PDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	LOX	Los Angeles	4 hr
Oct 14, 7:51 AM PDT	Special Marine Warning	LOX		84 min
Oct 14, 8:04 AM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LOX	Los Angeles	71 min
Oct 14, 8:54 AM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LOX	Los Angeles	66 min
Oct 14, 9:09 AM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LOX	Los Angeles	83 min
Oct 14, 9:11 AM PDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LOX	Los Angeles	3 hr
Oct 14, 9:15 AM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LOX	Santa Barbara	45 min
Oct 14, 9:34 AM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LOX	Los Angeles	26 min
Oct 14, 9:35 AM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LOX	Santa Barbara	25 min
Oct 14, 9:38 AM PDT	Special Marine Warning	LOX		50 min
Oct 14, 9:51 AM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LOX	Los Angeles	39 min
Oct 14, 10:00 AM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LOX	Santa Barbara	45 min
Oct 14, 10:02 AM PDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LOX	Los Angeles	118 min
Oct 14, 10:19 AM PDT	Special Marine Warning	LOX		56 min
Oct 14, 10:38 AM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LOX	Santa Barbara	37 min
Oct 14, 11:02 AM PDT	Winter Weather Advisory	LOX	Ventura	3 hr
Oct 14, 11:28 AM PDT	Special Marine Warning	LOX		17 min
Oct 14, 1:06 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LOX	San Luis Obispo	39 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.