Alert archive / Nevada / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Reno, NV
NWS Reno, NV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 3, 1995, 4:45 PM PDT for 4 counties in Nevada. It was in force for 60 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 3, 1995, 4:45 PM PDT (23:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 3, 1995, 5:45 PM PDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Reno, NV
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Churchill County, NV, Humboldt County, NV, Lander County, NV, Pershing County, NV
The nearest sounding before it
Reno, NV (KREV), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 88 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
- 153 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -98 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1978 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -45 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 53 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KRNO 032350 RRA SVRRNO NVC001-027-013-015-040045- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RENO NV 445 PM PDT SUN SEP 3 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RENO NEVADA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 545 PM PDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTHWESTERN NEVADA ...ALL OF HUMBOLDT COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEVADA ...NORTHERN LANDER COUNTY RENO DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR INDICATED THAT THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WHICH EARLIER AFFECTED CHURCHILL AND PERSHING COUNTIES HAD MOVED NORTH AND NORTHEAST INTO HUMBOLDT AND NORTHERN LANDER COUNTIES. THE WINNEMUCCA AIRPORT REPORTED WIND GUSTS OVER 50 MPH FROM THUNDERSTORMS APPROACHING FROM THE SOUTH. AT 445 PM PDT...STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER JUNGO AND GOLCONDA IN HUMBOLDT COUNTY...AND JUST SOUTH OF BATTLE MOUNTAIN IN NORTHERN LANDER COUNTY. THESE THUNDERSTORM WILL CONTINUE TO AFFECT HUMBOLDT AND NORTHERN LANDER COUNTY FOR THE NEXT HOUR. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING THAT WAS IN EFFECT FOR EASTERN CHURCHILL AND PERSHING COUNTIES HAS EXPIRED. MOTORISTS SHOULD REMEMBER THAT WIND DRIVEN DUST OR SAND MAY REDUCE VISIBILITIES TO NEAR ZERO AT TIMES. SEEK SHELTER IN A STRONG BUILDING...BUT STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. BE AWARE OF THE DANGER OF LOCAL FLOODING CAUSED BY THUNDERSTORM RAINS. REMEMBER THAT SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 57 MPH ...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTLNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. RL
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, Sep 3, 1:45 PM PDT, 3 hours before
NVZ004>006-032200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RENO NV 145 PM PDT SUN SEP 03 1995 ...THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS CENTRAL NEVADA... SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE OVER A LARGE PART OF CENTRAL NEVADA AT 140 PM PDT. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS LOCATED IN AND AROUND THE TOWN OF BATTLE MOUNTAIN IN NORTHERN LANDER COUNTY. THIS STORM SHOULD BE MOVING NORTHEAST OUT OF TOWN 215 PM PDT. DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR ALSO INDICATED OTHER STORMS SOUTH AND SOUTHWEST OF BATTLE MOUNTAIN. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 TO 25 MPH. OTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG THE MOUNTAINS JUST WEST OF SCHURZ AND WALKER LAKE IN WESTERN MINERAL COUNTY. THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE BRIEF PERIODS OF HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS...AND LOCALIZED FLOODING. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS FLOODED ROADWAYS OR WASHES. PERSONS SHOULD TAKE COVER IF A THUNDERSTORM APPROACHES...SINCE THESE STORMS ARE ALSO ACCOMPANIED BY FREQUENT LIGHTNING. CONTINUE TO LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL STATIONS FOR UPDATES AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. CAIRNS/2046
Special weather statement, Sep 3, 1:48 PM PDT, 2 hours 57 minutes before
NVZ004>006-032200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RENO NV 145 PM PDT SUN SEP 03 1995 ...THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS CENTRAL NEVADA... SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE OVER A LARGE PART OF CENTRAL NEVADA AT 140 PM PDT. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS LOCATED IN AND AROUND THE TOWN OF BATTLE MOUNTAIN IN NORTHERN LANDER COUNTY. THIS STORM SHOULD BE MOVING NORTHEAST OUT OF TOWN 215 PM PDT. DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR ALSO INDICATED OTHER STORMS SOUTH AND SOUTHWEST OF BATTLE MOUNTAIN. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 TO 25 MPH. OTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG THE MOUNTAINS JUST WEST OF SCHURZ AND WALKER LAKE IN WESTERN MINERAL COUNTY. THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE BRIEF PERIODS OF HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS...AND LOCALIZED FLOODING. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS FLOODED ROADWAYS OR WASHES. PERSONS SHOULD TAKE COVER IF A THUNDERSTORM APPROACHES...SINCE THESE STORMS ARE ALSO ACCOMPANIED BY FREQUENT LIGHTNING. CONTINUE TO LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL STATIONS FOR UPDATES AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. CAIRNS/2045
Special weather statement, Sep 3, 1:52 PM PDT, 2 hours 53 minutes before
NVZ004>006-032200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RENO NV 145 PM PDT SUN SEP 03 1995 ...THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS CENTRAL NEVADA... SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE OVER A LARGE PART OF CENTRAL NEVADA AT 140 PM PDT. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS LOCATED IN AND AROUND THE TOWN OF BATTLE MOUNTAIN IN NORTHERN LANDER COUNTY. THIS STORM SHOULD BE MOVING NORTHEAST OUT OF TOWN 215 PM PDT. DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR ALSO INDICATED OTHER STORMS SOUTH AND SOUTHWEST OF BATTLE MOUNTAIN. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 TO 25 MPH. OTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG THE MOUNTAINS JUST WEST OF SCHURZ AND WALKER LAKE IN WESTERN MINERAL COUNTY. THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE BRIEF PERIODS OF HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS...AND LOCALIZED FLOODING. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS FLOODED ROADWAYS OR WASHES. PERSONS SHOULD TAKE COVER IF A THUNDERSTORM APPROACHES...SINCE THESE STORMS ARE ALSO ACCOMPANIED BY FREQUENT LIGHTNING. CO NTINUE TO LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL STATIONS FOR UPDATES AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. CAIRNS/2046
Special weather statement, Sep 3, 4:26 PM PDT, 19 minutes before
NVZ004-005-006-007-040400- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RENO NV 430 PM PDT SUN SEP 3 1995 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 9 PM PDT FOR MUCH OF NORTHERN AND CENTRAL NEVADA... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM FOR MOST OF NORTHERN AND CENTRAL NEVADA. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS THAT THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING LARGE HAIL...STRONG DAMAGING WINDS...AND HEAVY RAIN ARE POSSIBLE. THE WATCH AREA INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...NORTHERN CHURCHILL...PERSHING...HUMBOLDT...NORTHERN LANDER...NORTHERN EUREKA...NORTHERN WHITE PINE...AND ELKO. CITIES IN THE WATCH AREA INCLUDE LOVELOCK...WINNEMUCCA...BATTLE MOUNTAIN ...CARLIN AND ELKO. RYEPATCH RESERVOIR AND SOUTH FORK RESERVOIR ARE ALSO IN THE WATCH AREA...AS IS ALL OF INTERSTATE 80 FROM EAST OF FERNLEY TO WENDOVER. SEVERAL SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE ALREADY DEVELOPED IN THE WATCH AREA AND THE POTENTIAL FOR ADDITIONAL SEVERE WEATHER WILL CONTINUE UNTIL AFTER SUNSET. A SOUTHERLY FLOW OF MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIR OVER NEVADA...COMBINED WITH A STRONG WINDS AT HIGH ALTITUDES...HAVE PROVIDED THE INGREDIENTS FOR THE SEVERE WEATHER POTENTIAL. ALL PERSONS IN THE WATCH AREA SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR THE POSSIBILITY OF SEVERE WEATHER. SEEK SHELTER IN A BUILDING WHENEVER THUNDERSTORMS ARE IN YOUR AREA. MOTORISTS SHOULD BE READY TO ENCOUNTER HEAVY RAIN...LARGE HAIL AND STRONG WINDS. RL
Special weather statement, Sep 3, 4:30 PM PDT, 15 minutes before
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
The office that day
Everything else NWS Reno, NV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2, 5:55 PM PDT | Tornado Warning | REV | Lander | 35 min |
| Sep 3, 2:36 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | REV | Churchill, Pershing | 69 min |
| Sep 3, 3:45 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | REV | Churchill, Lander, Pershing | 60 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Nevada, 1995Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1995
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.