Alert archive / Nevada / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1987
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Reno, NV
NWS Reno, NV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 14, 1987, 2:10 PM PDT for Washoe County, Nevada. It was in force for 50 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 14, 1987, 2:10 PM PDT (21:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 14, 1987, 3:00 PM PDT
- In force
- 50 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, 9.2 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3000 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -14 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 64 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 142110 SVRRNO NVC031-142200- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RENO NV 210 PM PDT SUN JUN 14 1987 EXPIRES 300 PM PDT JUN 14 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 300 PM PDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES OF SOUTHERN WASHOE THE COUNTY IS IN EXTREME WESTERN NEVADA AND THE AREA INCLUDES THE CITIES OF RENO...SPARKS...STEAD AND THE PYRAMID LAKE AREA. AT 145 PM WINDS GUSTED TO 67 MILES PER HOUR AT THE RENO AIPORT AND WAS ACCOMPANIED BY SMALL HAIL FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND HEAVY RAIN. IN STEAD NORTH OF RENO .56 OF AN INCH OF RAINFALL FELL IN TEN MINUTES. LOCAL STREET FLOODING IS REPORTED IN THE RENO SPARKS AREA. THE STORMS ARE MOVING RAPIDLY TO THE NORTH AT ABOUT 25 MILES PER HOUR. IF YOU ARE IN THE THREATENED AREA..STAY ALERT TO CHANGING CONDITIONS AND BE READY TO MOVE TO A REINFORCED SHELTER. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE STRONG &DAMAGING WINDS..LARGE HAIL..HEAVY RAIN..AND DEADLY LIGHTNING CONTINUE TO LISTEN TO THIS STATION FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS OR WARNINGS.
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, Jun 14, 10:06 AM PDT, 4 hours 4 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RENO NV 1000 AM PDT SUN JUN 14 1987 ...THUNDERSTORMS LIKELY OVER MUCH OF THE STATE TODAY... VERY UNSTABLE CONDITIONS CONTINUE OVER NEVADA TODAY AS WARM TEMPERATURES AND MOISTURE WILL COMBINE DURING THE DAY TO PRODUCE WIDESPREAD THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS TODAY ARE LIKELY TO FORM FROM PYRAMID LAKE TO THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF NEVADA...TO WINNEMUCCA...TO AUSTIN...SOUTH TO AROUND HAWTHORNE AND NORTH AGAIN TO PYRAMID LAKE. ALTHOUGH MOST OF THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE THIS AFTERNOON...ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS HAVE ALREADY FORMED IN THIS AREA. ALONG WITH THE ABOVE AREA...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL ALSO FORM OVER THE REMAINDER OF WESTERN NEVADA AS WELL AS THE CENTRAL MOUNTAINS AND THE NORTHEAST CORNER OF THE STATE. THE SOUTH WILL NOT ESCAPE THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPEMENT...BUT ACTIVITY SHOULD BE FAIRLY ISOLATED IN THIS REGION. SIMILIAR TO THE THUNDERSTORMS ON SATURDAY...STRONG AND GUSTY WINDS WITH LOCALLY HEAVY...BUT BRIEF SHOWERS...MAY ACCOMPANY THESE THUNDERSTORMS DURING THE DAY. WINDS WHICH ACCOMPANIED A THUNDERSTORM ACROSS THE RENO AREA LATE SATURDAY AFTERNOON REACHED 67 MPH...WHILE OVER .30 OF AN INCH OFg RAIN FELL IN A BRIEF PERIOD OF TIME. JENSEN/1700Z
The office that day
Everything else NWS Reno, NV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 5:35 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | REV | Storey, Washoe | 60 min |
| Jun 14, 4:30 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | REV | Lyon, Storey, Washoe | 35 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Nevada, 1987Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1987
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.