Alert archive / Nevada / Flash Flood Warnings in 1986
Flash Flood Warning 4, NWS Reno, NV
NWS Reno, NV issued this flash flood warning at Feb 18, 1986, 2:00 AM PST for 4 counties in Nevada. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 18, 1986, 2:00 AM PST (10:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 18, 1986, 9:00 AM PST
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Reno, NV
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Douglas County, NV, Lyon County, NV, Storey County, NV, Washoe County, NV
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
The nearest sounding before it
Winnemucca Muni, NV (KWMC), launched 00:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 211 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1176 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 63 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 255 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 510 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KRNO 181009 FFWRNO NVC510-005-029-031-019-181700- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RENO NV 2 AM PST TUE FEB 18 1986 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS EXTENDED THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 9 AM PST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES OF WESTERN NEVADA...CARSON CITY...DOUGLAS...STOREY...SOUTHERN WASHOE... AND LYON A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT. PERSONS NEAR SMALL STREAMS AND AND OTHER DRAINAGES SHOULD MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY. MOTORISTS SHOULD BE PARTICULARLY CAUTIOUS AND NOT ATTEMPT CROSSING ROADWAYS COVERED WITH FAST MOVING WATER OR WATER OF AN UNKNOWN DEPTH. THE HEAVY RAIN CONTINUED THROUGH THE EVENING AND THE LATEST SATELLITE PICTURES INDICATE THAT MOISTURE IS CONTINUING TO STREAM IN FROM THE WEST. HEAVY RAIN IS LIKELY TO CONTINUE THROUGH THE MORNING HOURS. THIS IS A SERIOUS SITUATION. ALL CREEKS AND STREAMS FROM MINDEN TO RENO WI)LL PRODUCE LOCAL FLOODING. THIS FLOODING INCLUDES THE LAKE TAHOE AREA. FURTHER STATEMENTS WILL BE ISSUED AS CONDITONS CHANGE. EKERN
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.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Feb 17, 9:07 PM PST, 4 hours 53 minutes before
^RNOSPSRNO SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RENO NV 915 PM PST MON FEB 17 1986 ...A HIGH WIND WARNING HAS BEEN EXTENDED FOR MINERAL AND ESMERALDA COUNTIES AND EXTENDED INTO DOUGLAS UNTIL 3 AM THIS MORNING... A VERY STRONG PACIFIC STORM OFF THE WEST COAST HAS BROUGHT STRONG AND GUSTY WINDS TO MOST OF WESTERN NEVADA. THE STRONGEST WINDS HOWEVER ARE OCCURRING OVER THE COUNTIES OF ESMERALDA AND MINERAL WHERE SPEEDS BETWEEN 80 AND 100 MPH HAVE BEEN REPORTED BY THE SHERIFF OFFICE OUT OF HATHORNE. A LATE REPORT THROUGH THE PASS SOUTH OF MINDEN REPORTED WINDS IN EXCESS OF 50 MPH. THESE HIGH WINDS HAVE ALSO PROMPTED SOME ROAD CLOSURES..ESPECIALLY AROUND THE HATHORNE AREA WHER0E NUMEROUS TRAVEL TRAILERS AND SEMI TRUCKS HAVE BEEN OVERTURNED. PERSONS IN THE AFFECTED AREAS SHOULD TAKE ANY NECESSARY PRECAUTIONS. FURTHER STATEMENTS WILL BE ISSUED AS CONDITIONS CHANGE. FISCHER/0504Z
Special weather statement, Feb 17, 10:50 PM PST, 3 hours 10 minutes before
^RNOSPSRNO SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RENO NV 1045 PM PST MON FEB 17 1986 ...A HIGH WIND WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR MAINLY THE FOOTHILL AREAS OF CARSON CITY-ORMSBY...DOUGLAS...STOREY...WASHOE COUNTIES A VERY STRONG PACIFIC STORM OFF THE WEST COAST HAS BROUGHT STRONG AND GUSTY WINDS TO MOST OF WESTERN NEVADA. GUSTS TO 77 MPH HAVE OCCURRED IN THE STEAD AREA NORTH OF RENO WITH IN THE PAST HOUR. ADDITIONAL STRONG WINDS H AVE BEEN REPORTED IN VERDI AND SOUTH OF MINDEN. GUSTY SOUTH TO SOUTHWEST WINDS OF 40 TO 60 MPH WITH OCCASIONAL GUSTS TO 75 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED UNTIL 3AM TUESDAY MORNING...MAINLY IN THE FOOTHILL AREAS. DOUG ARMSTRONG/0645Z
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Nevada, 1986Every flash flood warning in 1986
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.