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Flood Watch 2, NWS Las Vegas, NV

June 3, 2025Clark County, Lincoln County, Nye County, Nevada; San Bernardino County, California; Mohave County, Arizona

NWS Las Vegas, NV issued this flood watch at Jun 3, 2025, 9:26 AM PDT for Clark County, Lincoln County, Nye County, Nevada; San Bernardino County, California; Mohave County, Arizona. It took effect at Jun 3, 2025, 12:00 PM PDT. It was in force for 31 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 3, 2025, 9:26 AM PDT (16:26 UTC)
In effect from: Jun 3, 2025, 12:00 PM PDT
Expired: Jun 4, 2025, 7:05 PM PDT
In force: 31 hr
Issued by: NWS Las Vegas, NV
Flood severity: None

Counties Mohave County, AZ, San Bernardino County, CA, Clark County, NV, Lincoln County, NV, Nye County, NV

The radar

The Las Vegas radar (KESX), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:28 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, 4.4 hours before the alert went out and 28 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: 584 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -249 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1890 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 119 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 176 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flood watch 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 flood watch went out at Jun 3, 4:37 AM PDT, 4 hours 49 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 3, 4:37 AM PDT, 4 hours 49 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Las Vegas, NV issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 2, 5:32 PM PDT	Areal Flood Advisory	VEF	Clark, Lincoln	4 hr
Jun 2, 6:05 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	VEF	Clark, Lincoln	70 min
Jun 2, 6:43 PM PDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	VEF	Clark	3 hr
Jun 2, 7:11 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	VEF	Clark	94 min
Jun 2, 7:47 PM PDT	Areal Flood Advisory	VEF	Clark	3 hr
Jun 3, 2:01 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	VEF	Clark	44 min
Jun 3, 2:04 PM PDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	VEF	Clark	3 hr
Jun 3, 3:03 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	VEF	Clark	57 min
Jun 3, 3:35 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	VEF	Clark	40 min
Jun 3, 4:29 PM PDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	VEF	Clark	3 hr
Jun 3, 2:30 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	VEF	San Bernardino	45 min
Jun 3, 2:45 PM PDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	VEF	San Bernardino	3 hr
Jun 3, 2:49 PM PDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	VEF	San Bernardino	3 hr
Jun 3, 3:12 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	VEF	San Bernardino	48 min
Jun 3, 4:35 PM PDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	VEF	San Bernardino	3 hr
Jun 2, 9:12 PM PDT	Areal Flood Advisory	VEF	Mohave	2 hr

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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.