Alert archive / Nevada / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1986
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 1, NWS Reno, NV
NWS Reno, NV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 31, 1986, 4:06 PM PDT for Washoe County, Nevada. It was in force for 39 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 31, 1986, 4:06 PM PDT (23:06 UTC)
- Expired
- May 31, 1986, 4:45 PM PDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Reno, NV
- Area
- Whole counties
County 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, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 159 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
- 146 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -326 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2413 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 41 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 53 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 312306 SVRRNO NVC031-312345- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RENO NV 406 PM PDT SAT MAY 31 1986 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 445 PM PDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY OF NEVADA...SOUTHERN WASHOE THIS COUNTY IS IN EXTREME WESTERN NEVADA A THUNDERSTORM CURRENTLY JUST TO THE WEST OF THE RENO AREA HAS PRODUCED LARGE HAIL..HEAVY RAIN AND STRONG WINDS. THIS THUNDERSTORM IS CURRENTLY MOVING NORTHEAST AND WILL MOVE ACROSS THE RENO..SPARKS AND STEAD AREAS WITHIN THE NEXT 30 MINUTES. IF YOU ARE IN THE THREATENED AREA..STAY ALERT TO CHANGING CONDITIONS AND BE READY TO MOVE TO A REINFORCED SHELTER. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PROCUDE STRONG DAMAGING WINDS..LARGE HAIL.. HEAVY RAIN..AND DEADLY LIGHTENING. CONTINUE TO LISTEN TO THIS STATION FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS OR WARNINGS. JENSEN/2301 M
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm 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, May 31, 3:42 PM PDT, 24 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RENO NV 345 PM PDT SUN MAY 31 1986 RAPIDLY DEVELOPING THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE RENO/CARSON CITY AREA THIS AFTERNOON HAVE PRODUCED LOCALLY STRONG..GUSTY AND ERRATIC WINDS. THESE WINDS WERE FIRST REPORTED AT THE RENO CANNON INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT AROUND 3 PM THIS AFTERNOON WITH SPEEDS TO NEAR 50 MILES AN HOUR. SIMILIAR WINDS ARE EXPECTED THROUGHOUT THE REMAINDER OF THIS AFTERNOON AND INTO EARLY THIS >EVENING. PEOPLE IN EXTREME WESTERN NEVADA..ESPECIALLY IN THE RENO/CARSON CITY AREA SHOULD TAKE ANY NECESSARY PRECAUTION TO PROTECT PROPERTY TO THESE STRONG AND ERRATIC WINDS. JENSEN
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.