Alert archive / Nevada / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Las Vegas, NV
NWS Las Vegas, NV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 28, 1994, 2:20 PM PDT for Clark County, Nevada. It was in force for 55 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 28, 1994, 2:20 PM PDT (21:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 28, 1994, 3:15 PM PDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Las Vegas, NV
- Area
- Whole counties
County Clark County, NV
The nearest sounding before it
Mercury/Desert R, NV (KDRA), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 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
- 108 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -209 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3564 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 64 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 89 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KLAS 282122 SVRLAS NVC003-282215- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV 220 PM PDT TUE JUN 28 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAS VEGAS HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 315 PM PDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...... IN SOUTH NEVADA ...SOUTHERN CLARK COUNTY NATIONAL PARK SERVICE IN BOULDER CITY NEVADA REPORTED HEAVY WINDS AND GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL ALONG HIGHWAY 95 SOUTH OF BOULDER CITY. THESE STORMS WILL LAST FOR ANOTHER HOUR.. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...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.
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, Jun 28, 1:16 PM PDT, 1 hour 4 minutes before
NVZ009-290100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NEVADA 130 PM PDT TUE JUN 28 1994 ...THUNDERSTORMS IN SOUTHERN NEVADA... AT 115 PM PDT...WEATHER RADAR, VISUAL OBSERVATIONS AND LIGHTNING DETECTORS INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS BUILDING IN SOUTHERN NEVADA. MOST OF THE THUNDERSTORMS SO FAR HAVE BEEN DEVELOPING IN SOUTHERN CLARK COUNTY...WITH THE STRONGEST CELL APPROXIMATELY 30 MILES SOUTH OF LAS VEGAS. APPARENT MOVEMENT OF THE STORMS WAS VERY SLOW...PERHAPS 5 MPH...TO THE NORTH. THE REMAINDER OF THE AFTERNOON SHOULD BRING FURTHER DEVELOPMENT OF THUNDERSTORMS SCATTERED THROUGHOUT SOUTHERN NEVADA. IF YOU ARE IN OR AROUND ANY STORMS THIS AFTERNOON...BE PREPARED FOR STRONG GUSTY WINDS...POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL...AND DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. SINCE WE HAVE BEEN IN OUR NORMAL COMPLACENT DRY SEASON...EXTRA CARE SHOULD BE EXERCISED BY GETTING BACK INTO THE HABIT OF REMAINING AWARE OF THE SUDDENLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS THAT CAN CHARACTERIZE THIS TIME OF YEAR. STAY TUNED TO YOUR NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR FAVORITE LOCAL TV OR RADIO STATION FOR ANY UPDATES. CORDERO
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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.