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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Reno, NV

June 14, 1987Washoe County, Nevada

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Winnemucca Muni, NV at 12:00Z on 1987-06-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Winnemucca Muni, NV at 12:00Z on 1987-06-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -14 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
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

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 13, 5:35 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningREVStorey, Washoe60 min
Jun 14, 4:30 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningREVLyon, Storey, Washoe35 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.