Alert archive / Nevada / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Reno, NV
NWS Reno, NV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 11, 1992, 5:00 PM PDT for Mineral County, Nevada. It was in force for 60 min. 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
- Jul 11, 1992, 5:00 PM PDT (00:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 11, 1992, 6:00 PM PDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Reno, NV
- Area
- Whole counties
County Mineral County, NV
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 11, 5:01 PM PDT | Hail 1 | Mineral, 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
Winnemucca Muni, NV (KWMC), launched 00:00Z, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 268 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
- 15 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -183 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1626 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 49 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 148 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.
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, Jul 11, 11:46 AM PDT, 5 hours 14 minutes before
NVZ002-112100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RENO NV 1130 AM PDT SAT JUL 11 1992 ...TROPICAL MOISTURE FROM THE REMNANTS OF DARBY MOVES INTO WESTERN NEVADA... MOISTURE FROM THE REMNANTS OF HURRICANE DARBY MOVED INTO WESTERN NEVADA SATURDAY MORNING CAUSING SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS OVER LAKE TAHOE AND WESTERN NEVADA. THE SHOWERS WERE MOVING TOWARDS THE NORTHEAST AT 10 TO 15 MPH AND WERE PRODUCING BRIEF HEAVY SHOWERS IN SOME AREAS AROUND LAKE TAHOE AND IN THE RENO CARSON CITY AREAS. SHOWERS IN THE LAKE TAHOE AREA HAVE KEPT TEMPERATURES IN THE 50S AT SOUTH LAKE WHILE IN TRUCKEE WHERE SHOWERS HAD NOT DEVELOPED YET TEMPERATURES WERE IN THE 70S. OCCASIONAL SHOWERFS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE FORECAST TO CONTINUED THROUGHOUT THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING SATURDAY. BRIEF HEAVY RAINS... SMALL HAIL AND LIGHTNING MAY OCCUR THIS AFTERNOON. 1842Z/JJF
Special weather statement, Jul 11, 11:47 AM PDT, 5 hours 13 minutes before
NVZ002-112100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RENO NV 1130 AM PDT SAT JUL 11 1992 ...TROPICAL MOISTURE FROM THE REMNANTS OF DARBY MOVES INTO WESTERN NEVADA... MOISTURE FROM THE REMNANTS OF HURRICANE DARBY MOVED INTO WESTERN NEVADA SATURDAY MORNING CAUSING SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS OVER LAKE TAHOE AND WESTERN NEVADA. THE SHOWERS WERE MOVING TOWARDS THE NORTHEAST AT 10 TO 15 MPH AND WERE PRODUCING BRIEF HEAVY SHOWERS IN SOME AREAS AROUND LAKE TAHOE AND IN THE RENO CARSON CITY AREAS. SHOWERS IN THE LAKE TAHOE AREA HAVE KEPT TEMPERATURES IN THE 50S AT SOUTH LAKE WHILE IN TRUCKEE WHERE SHOWERS HAD NOT DEVELOPED YET TEMPERATURES WERE IN THE 70S. OCCASIONAL SHOWERSH AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE FORECAST TO CONTINUED THROUGHOUT THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING SATURDAY. BRIEF HEAVY RAINS... SMALL HAIL AND LIGHTNING MAY OCCUR THIS AFTERNOON. 1842Z/JJF
Special weather statement, Jul 11, 2:23 PM PDT, 2 hours 37 minutes before
NVZ002-112300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RENO NV 230 PM PDT SAT JUL 11 1992 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WEST OF TONOPAH... RADAR AND SATELLITE INFORMATION INDICATED STRONG THUNDESTORMS HAD DEVELOPED WEST OF TONOPAH. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TOWARDS THE NORTHEAST AT 10 TO 15 MPH. STRONG WINDS...BRIEF HEAVY RAIN AND LIGHTNING ARE LIKELY WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED OVER NORTHERN NEVADA. MOST OF THIS ACTIVITY WAS ALONG A BROAD LINE FROM BETWEEN ELKO AND ELY WEST TO SOUTH LAKE TAHOE. MOVEMENT OF THIS ACTIVITY WAS ALSO TOWARDS THE NORTHEAST AT 10 TO 15 MPH. THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE INTO TONIGHT OVER NORTHERN NEVAlDA AS MOIST UNSTABLE AIR COMBINE WITH LOW PRESSURE. 2122Z/JJF
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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.