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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Las Vegas, NV

June 11, 1989Esmeralda County, Lincoln County, Nye County, Nevada

NWS Las Vegas, NV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 11, 1989, 3:40 PM PDT for Esmeralda County, Lincoln County, Nye County, Nevada. It was in force for 2 hr. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jun 11, 1989, 3:40 PM PDT (22:40 UTC)
Expired: Jun 11, 1989, 6:00 PM PDT
In force: 2 hr
Issued by: NWS Las Vegas, NV
Area: Whole counties

Counties Esmeralda County, NV, Lincoln County, NV, Nye County, NV

The radar

The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 11, 3:42 PM PDT	Thunderstorm Wind 69	Nye, NV

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.

The nearest sounding before it

Mercury/Desert R, NV (KDRA), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 137 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 3497 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 47 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -10 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KLAS 112240 RRA
SVRLAS
NVC009-017-023-120100-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV
340 PM PDT SUN JUN 11 1989
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAS VEGAS HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 600 PM PDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
 
IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEVADA
          ...ESMERALDA...NORTHERN LINCOLN...NORTHERN NYE
 
RADAR AND LIGHTNING DETECTION EQUIPMENT SHOW THAT THUNDERSTORMS ARE
OCCURRING OVER ESMERALDA...NORTHERN NYE AND NORTHERN LINCOLN COUNTIES.
WIND GUSTS TO AROUND 70 MPH HAVE BEEN REPORTED ON THE TONOPAH TEST
RANGE.
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAInL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS.  HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO
DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
DJR/2235Z

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 11, 2:30 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	VEF	Esmeralda	60 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Nevada, 1989 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1989

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.