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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Reno, NV

July 11, 1992Mineral County, Nevada

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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jul 11, 5:01 PM PDTHail 1Mineral, 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Winnemucca Muni, NV at 00:00Z on 1992-07-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 15 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, Winnemucca Muni, NV at 00:00Z on 1992-07-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 49 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
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

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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, 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.