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Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Reno, NV

August 5, 1988Lyon County, Nevada

NWS Reno, NV issued this flash flood warning at Aug 5, 1988, 2:06 PM PDT for Lyon County, Nevada. It was in force for 69 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 5, 1988, 2:06 PM PDT (21:06 UTC)
Expired
Aug 5, 1988, 3:15 PM PDT
In force
69 min
Issued by
NWS Reno, NV
Area
Whole counties

County Lyon 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, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 240 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 1988-08-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 1988-08-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 0 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
3568 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
0 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-8 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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, Aug 5, 1:31 PM PDT, 35 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RENO NV
130 PM PDT FRI AUG 5 1988

...THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER WESTERN NEVADA...

SATELLITE PICTURES AND RADAR REPORTS SHOW THAT THUNDERSTORMS
HAVE BEEN RAPIDLY DEVELOPING OVER WESTERN NEVADA DURING THE
LAST HOUR. THESE STORMS ARE LIKLEY TO CONTINUE OVER THE REGION
THIS AFTERNOON AND INTO THE EVENING.

ALL PERSONS SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR THE POSSIBILITY OF SUDDEN STRONG
WINDS ATTENDED BY BLOWING DUST..LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN..AND DANGEROUS
LIGHTNING. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES FIND SHELTER IMMEDIATLEY.

BOATERS ON AREA LAKES..INCLUDING PYRAMID LAKE..SHOULD BE
PREPARED FOR STRONG AND ERRACTIC WINDS AND POSSIBLE LIGHTNING.

FURTHER "STATEMENTS WILL BE ISSUED AS NEEDED.
D FULLER/2030Z

The office that day

Everything else NWS Reno, NV issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 5, 2:06 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningREVLyon69 min

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.