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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 5, NWS Las Vegas, NV

August 26, 1988Nye County, Nevada

NWS Las Vegas, NV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 26, 1988, 5:35 PM PDT for Nye County, Nevada. It was in force for 55 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 26, 1988, 5:35 PM PDT (00:35 UTC)
Expired
Aug 26, 1988, 6:30 PM PDT
In force
55 min
Issued by
NWS Las Vegas, NV
Area
Whole counties

County Nye 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

Mercury/Desert R, NV (KDRA), launched 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 164 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, Mercury/Desert R, NV at 00:00Z on 1988-08-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 380 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, Mercury/Desert R, NV at 00:00Z on 1988-08-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 12 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
380 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-30 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2528 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
8 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
12 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
19 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 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, Aug 26, 1:07 PM PDT, 4 hours 28 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS, NV
107 PM PDT FRI AUG 26 1988

...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER SOUTHERN NEVADA...

THE LAS VEGAS WEATHER RADAR SHOWED SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING
OVER LINCOLN...NYE AND CLARK COUNTIES OF SOUTHERN NEVADA AND SAN BERN-
ADINO COUNTIES OF SOUTHEAST CALIFORNIA.  THE HEAVIEST THUNDERSTORMS
WERE IN THE MOUNT CHARLESTON AREA WHERE SOME LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN AND
HAIL MAYBE OCCURING.  THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TOWARD THE NORTH-
EAST AT 10 MPH.

THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE LOCAL AREAS OF HEAVY RAIN...DANGEROUS
LIGHTNING...HAIL AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS WITH AREAS OF BLOWING DUST AND
SAND.  LOCAL FLOODING OF WASHES CAN OCCUR NEAR AREAS OF HEAVY RAIN AND
MOTORIST ARE REMINDED NOT TO DRIVE ON ROADS COVERED BY WATER.

PERSONS ENGAGED IN OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES ARE URGED TO USE CAUTION THIS
AFTERNOON AND EVENING AND BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.
BE PREPARED TO SEEK SHELTER IF THREATENING WEATHER DEVELOPS.  BOATERS ON
LAKE MEAD AND LAKE MOHAVE SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR ROUGH WATER.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...COMMERCIAL TV AND RADIO FOR
LATER STATEMENTS AND FORECASTS.
CHS/2007Z

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 26, 5:35 PM PDTFlash Flood WarningVEFNye55 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.