Flash Flood, Lincoln
- When
- July 30, 4:40 PM PST to 5:10 PM PST
- Where
- Lincoln County, Ursine
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 37.983, -114.217
Water, mud, and rocks across Highway 322 on both sides of Ursine.
Flash Flood in Nevada, July 30, 2005
1 flash flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before the first event, 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 the first event at Jul 30, 3:00 PM PST, 1 hour 40 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 30, 3:00 PM PST, 1 hour 40 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV 400 PM PDT SAT JUL 30 2005 .SYNOPSIS...HIGH PRESSURE WILL REMAIN NEAR THE FOUR CORNERS REGION THROUGH THE WEEKEND. SOUTH TO SOUTHEAST FLOW AROUND THE HIGH WILL KEEP A DECENT AMOUNT OF MONSOONAL MOISTURE OVER THE REGION INTO EARLY NEXT WEEK. THIS WILL ALLOW THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOP EACH AFTERNOON...AND KEEP TEMPERATURES NEAR TO SLIGHTLY BELOW NORMAL. && .DISCUSSION...DAYTIME HEATING HAS INITIATED CONVECTION OVER THE EASTERN 2/3 OF THE CWA THIS AFTERNOON...WHERE THE BEST MOISTURE AND INSTABILITY EXIST. MOST ACTIVE PORTIONS OF THE FORECAST AREA ARE CURRENTLY CENTRAL SAN BERNARDINO AND SOUTHERN MOHAVE COUNTIES. EASTERN SAN BERNARDINO...WESTERN MOHAVE...AND SOUTHERN CLARK COUNTIES WILL BE MORE OF A CONCERN THIS EVENING AS BOUNDARIES FROM THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE CURRENTLY MORE ACTIVE AREAS INITIATE NEW CONVECTION. AIRMASS LOOKS TO REMAIN FAIRLY UNSTABLE OVERNIGHT PER LATEST GFS/NAM. WILL HAVE TO WATCH BOUNDARY COLLISIONS THIS EVENING AND WAIT TO SEE IF ANYTHING MORE ORGANIZED CAN DEVELOP TO SUSTAIN CONVECTION AFTER THE SUN GOES DOWN. OTHERWISE...MOIST MONSOONAL FLOW PATTERN TO REMAIN IN PLACE OVER THE NEXT WEEK WITH A DIURNAL THUNDERSTORM PATTERN DOMINATING CONVECTIVE ACTIVITY. THUNDERSTORMS MAY BECOME MORE ISOLATED TOWARDS THE END OF NEXT WEEK AS THE MID LEVEL RIDGE MOVES CLOSE TO OR OVER NEVADA. .AVIATION...TAF ADEQUATELY COVERS ALL EXPECTED WEATHER AT KLAS. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO AFFECT ALL TRAFFIC CORRIDORS AND THE LAS VEGAS VALLEY THIS EVENING. ERRATIC AND GUSTY WINDS IN AND NEAR THUNDERSTORMS MAY CAUSE SUDDEN AND DRAMATIC WIND SHIFTS. BRIEF HEAVY RAIN MAY ALSO ACCOMPANY THESE STORMS. .VEF WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... .NV...NONE. .AZ...NONE. .CA...NONE. && DAVIS
Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 30, 10:39 AM PST, 6 hours 1 minute before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...CORRECTED FORMAT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV 1139 AM PDT SAT JUL 30 2005 AZZ001>003-036-CAZ026>029-NVZ014>022-311838- DEATH VALLEY NATIONAL PARK CA-ESMERALDA AND CENTRAL NYE COUNTY NV- LAKE HAVASU AND FORT MOHAVE AZ-LAKE MEAD NATIONAL RECREATION AREA AZ- LAKE MEAD NATIONAL RECREATION AREA NV-LAS VEGAS VALLEY NV- LINCOLN COUNTY NV-NORTHEAST CLARK COUNTY NV-NORTHWEST DESERTS AZ- NORTHWEST PLATEAU AZ- OWENS VALLEY AND ADJACENT EASTERN SIERRA SLOPES CA- SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY DESERTS CA-SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY- UPPER COLORADO RIVER VALLEY CA-SHEEP RANGE NV- SOUTHERN CLARK COUNTY NV-SPRING MOUNTAINS-RED ROCK CANYON NV- WESTERN CLARK AND SOUTHERN NYE COUNTY NV- 1139 AM PDT SAT JUL 30 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST CALIFORNIA...SOUTHERN NEVADA AND NORTHWEST ARIZONA. .DAY ONE...SATURDAY. THE MONSOON PATTERN REMAINS IN PLACE TODAY. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON...ESPECIALLY SOUTHEAST OF A LINE FROM BARSTOW CALIFORNIA TO CALIENTE NEVADA. SOME OF THE STORMS WILL LIKELY PRODUCE ISOLATED SEVERE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...AND FLASH FLOODING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. THE MONSOON PATTERN IS EXPECTED TO REMAIN IN PLACE THROUGH THE WEEK. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS CAN BE EXPECTED EACH AFTERNOON AND EVENING...WITH ISOLATED SEVERE WEATHER AND FLASH FLOODING POSSIBLE. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED. MORGAN
The radar
The Cedar City radar (KICX), 127 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:42 UTC.
Event by event
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Flash Flood
- Flooding that begins within six hours of the rain that causes it, or of a dam or levee failure or ice jam release, often with deadly speed.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Flash Flood and Damaging Wind in Arizona, July 30, 2005
- Flash Flood in Georgia, July 30, 2005
- Flash Flooding and Hail in California, July 30, 2005
- Lightning Strike in Tennessee, July 30, 2005
- Lightning Strike in Florida, July 30, 2005
- Damaging Wind in Mississippi, July 30, 2005
- Marine Thunderstorm Winds in Gulf of Mexico, July 30, 2005
- Hail in South Dakota, July 30, 2005
- Flash Flooding in West Virginia, July 30, 2005
- Waterspout in South Atlantic Coastal Waters, July 30, 2005
- Waterspout in South Atlantic Coastal Waters, July 30, 2005
- Hail in Michigan, July 30, 2005
More
Every storm in Nevada in 2005Every state in 2005This day in weather historyWarnings in Nevada, July 2005
Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5458427.