Alert archive / Nevada / Flash Flood Warnings in 1986
Flash Flood Warning 5, NWS Reno, NV
NWS Reno, NV issued this flash flood warning at Feb 19, 1986, 4:36 AM PST for Lyon County, Storey County, Washoe County, Nevada. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 19, 1986, 4:36 AM PST (12:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 19, 1986, 9:00 AM PST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Reno, NV
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties 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 12:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 193 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 645 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 75 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 91 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 71 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Reno, NV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 19, 4:36 AM PST | Flash Flood Warning | REV | Douglas | 4 hr |
| Feb 19, 9:15 AM PST | Flash Flood Warning | REV | Lyon | 6 hr |
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.