Alert archive / Nevada / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 10, NWS Reno, NV
NWS Reno, NV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 5, 1995, 7:52 PM PDT for Lyon County, Nevada. It was in force for 68 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 5, 1995, 7:52 PM PDT (02:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 5, 1995, 9:00 PM PDT
- In force
- 68 min
- Issued by
- NWS Reno, NV
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lyon County, NV
The nearest sounding before it
Reno, NV (KREV), launched 00:00Z, 2.9 hours before the alert went out and 105 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
- 289 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -25 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2991 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -12 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 6 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS1 KRNO 060254 RRA SVRRNO NVC019-060400- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RENO NV 752 PM PDT SAT AUG 5 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RENO HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 900 PM PDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN WEST NEVADA ...NORTHERN LYON COUNTY A LINE OF THUNDERSTORM WINDS WAS MOVING NORTH THROUGH NORTHERN LYON COUNTY. AS THESE STORMS MOVED THROUGH YERINGTON...WIND DAMAGE TO A FENCE AND A CARPORT WAS REPORT. DOPPLER RADAR AT RENO INDICATED THIS LINE WAS MOVING NORTH TOWARDS WABUSKA AND SILVER SPRINGS. 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, Aug 5, 4:45 PM PDT, 3 hours 7 minutes before
NVZ004-003-050100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RENO NV 445 PM PDT SAT AUG 5 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS NEAR SMITH...WALKER LAKE AND HAWTHORNE... AT 445 PM PDT STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE NEAR THE TOWNS OF SMITH AND HAWTHORNE NEVADA. THE THUNDERSTORMS NEAR SMITH WERE MAINLY ALONG THE MOUNTAINS BUT WINDS OF NEAR 40 MPH WERE REPORTED NEAR THESE STORMS IN SMITH VALLEY. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTH AT AROUND 10 MPH AND WILL CONTINUE UNTIL AROUND 530 PM. A SECOND AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED NEAR HAWTHORNE AND WALKER LAKE NEVADA. NO REPORTS OF STRONG WINDS OR HAIL HAD BEEN RECEIVED AS OF 430 PM BUT RADAR INDICATED THE POSSIBILITY OF HAIL. AGAIN THESE STORMS WERE MAINLY OVER THE MOUNTAINS BUT WERE MOVING JUST TO THE WEST OF WALKER LAKE AND BOATERS SHOULD BE PREPARED TO MOVE IMMEDIATELY TO SHORE IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. MOVEMENT OF THIS AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS TOWARDS THE NORTH AT AROUND 10 MPH.
Special weather statement, Aug 5, 4:48 PM PDT, 3 hours 4 minutes before
NVZ004-003-050100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RENO NV 445 PM PDT SAT AUG 5 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS NEAR SMITH...WALKER LAKE AND HAWTHORNE... AT 445 PM PDT STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE NEAR THE TOWNS OF SMITH AND HAWTHORNE NEVADA. THE THUNDERSTORMS NEAR SMITH WERE MAINLY ALONG THE MOUNTAINS BUT WINDS OF NEAR 40 MPH WERE REPORTED NEAR THESE STORMS IN SMITH VALLEY. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTH AT AROUND 10 MPH AND WILL CONTINUE UNTIL AROUND 530 PM. A SECOND AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED NEAR HAWTHORNE AND WALKER LAKE NEVADA. NO REPORTS OF STRONG WINDS OR HAIL HAD BEEN RECEIVED AS OF 430 PM BUT RADAR INDICATED THE POSSIBILITY OF HAIL. AGAIN THESE STORMS WERE MAINLY OVER THE MOUNTAINS BUT WERE MOVING JUST TO THE WEST OF WALKER LAKE AND BOATERS SHOULD BE PREPARED TO MOVE IMMEDIATELY TO SHORE IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. MOVEMENT OF THIS AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS TOWARDS THE NORTH AT AROUND 10 MPH.
Special weather statement, Aug 5, 7:05 PM PDT, 47 minutes before
NVZ004-050300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RENO NV 705 PM PDT SAT AUG 5 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS NEAR LAHONTAN DAM... AT 700 PM PDT STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED NEAR LAHONTAN DAM. SEVERAL REPORTS OF FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND STRONG WINDS HAVE BEEN REPORTED SINCE 645 PM IN THE AREA FROM SILVER SPRINGS NEVADA TO LAHONTAN DAM. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TOWARDS THE NORTH AT AROUND 15 MPH AND WILL CONTINUE TO PRODUCE STRONG WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND HAIL UNTIL 800 PM. BOATERS ON LAKE LAHONTAN SHOULD BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO SHORE IMMEDIATELY IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES.
Special weather statement, Aug 5, 7:12 PM PDT, 40 minutes before
NVZ004-050300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RENO NV 705 PM PDT SAT AUG 5 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS NEAR LAHONTAN DAM... AT 700 PM PDT STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED NEAR LAHONTAN DAM. SEVERAL REPORTS OF FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND STRONG WINDS HAVE BEEN REPORTED SINCE 645 PM IN THE AREA FROM SILVER SPRINGS NEVADA TO LAHONTAN DAM. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TOWARDS THE NORTH AT AROUND 15 MPH AND WILL CONTINUE TO PRODUCE STRONG WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND HAIL UNTIL 800 PM. BOATERS ON LAKE LAHONTAN SHOULD BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO SHORE IMMEDIATELY IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES.
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.