Alert archive / Nevada / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1989
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Las Vegas, NV
NWS Las Vegas, NV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 8, 1989, 6:16 PM PDT for Clark County, Nevada. It was in force for 44 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 8, 1989, 6:16 PM PDT (01:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 8, 1989, 7:00 PM PDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Las Vegas, NV
- Area
- Whole counties
County Clark 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, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 99 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
- 61 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -54 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3113 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 1 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -13 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Las Vegas, NV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 9, 4:52 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | VEF | Nye | 3 hr |
| Aug 8, 6:45 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | VEF | Inyo | 75 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Nevada, 1989Every 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.