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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Las Vegas, NV

July 11, 1992Esmeralda County, Nye County, Nevada

NWS Las Vegas, NV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 11, 1992, 5:00 PM PDT for Esmeralda County, Nye County, Nevada. It was in force for 60 min.

The area

The counties it named.

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 Las Vegas, NV
Area
Whole counties

Counties Esmeralda County, NV, Nye County, NV

The nearest sounding before it

Mercury/Desert R, NV (KDRA), launched 00:00Z, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 171 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 1992-07-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 1992-07-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 51 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
2918 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
51 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
131 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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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, 2:30 PM PDT, 2 hours 30 minutes before
NVZ008-009-120100-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV
230 PM PDT SAT JUL 11 1992

...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEVADA...

SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE REDEVELOPING IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEVADA THIS
AFTERNOON.  FEEDING THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...IS MOISTURE FROM THE
REMNANTS OF DARBY.

WEATHER RADAR...SATELLITE IMAGERY...AND LIGHTNING DETECTION SENSORS AT
215 PM THIS AFTERNOON...INDICATED AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS
DEVELOPING IN ESMERALDA COUNTY TO THE WEST OF GOLDFIELD.  OTHER STORMS
WERE INDICATED OVER THE SAN ANTONIO MOUNTAINS NORTH OF TONOPAH IN NYE
COUNTY.  THE STORMS WILL COUNTINUE TO DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON AND SPREAD
TO THE EAST.  ESMERALDA...AND THE CENTRAL AND NORTHERN SECTIONS OF NYE
AND LINCOLN COUNTIES WILL BE UNDER THE GUN THUNDERSTORM-WISE FOR THE
REST OF THE AFTERNOON...EVENING...AND POSSIBLY UNTIL AFTER MIDNIGHT.
OTHER SECTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL AND EXTREME SOUTHERN NEVADA WILL ONLY
HAVE ISOLATED SHOWER AND THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY...MAINLY TO THE NORTH
OF LAS VEGAS.

IF YOU LIVE IN THIS AREA OR PLAN TO VISIT OR TRAVEL THROUGH THIS PART
OF NEVADA TODAY OR TONIGHT...BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO A SAFE PLACE IF
THUNDERSTORMS THREATEN.  STRONG GUSTY WINDS...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND
BRIEF HEAVY RAIN WILL ACCOMPANY SOME OF THE STORMS.  NORMALLY DRY WASHES
CAN FILL RAPIDLY AND FLOOD WITH LITTLE WARNING.

LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR THE
LATEST FORECASTS...ADVISORIES...OR WARNINGS.

FUIS/2130Z

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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.