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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 5, NWS Reno, NV

June 15, 1995Pershing County, Nevada

NWS Reno, NV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 15, 1995, 3:25 PM PDT for Pershing County, Nevada. It was in force for 30 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 15, 1995, 3:25 PM PDT (22:25 UTC)
Expired: Jun 15, 1995, 3:55 PM PDT
In force: 30 min
Issued by: NWS Reno, NV
Area: Whole counties

County Pershing County, NV

The nearest sounding before it

Reno, NV (KREV), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 98 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1326 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 17 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 30 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KRNO 152229 RRA
SVRRNO
NVC027-152255-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RENO NV
325 PM PDT THU JUN 15 1995

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RENO NEVADA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 355 PM PDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE
FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...

IN NORTHWESTERN NEVADA

  ...SOUTHERN PERSHING COUNTY
   ...INCLUDING LOVELOCK

AT 3:25 PM PDT...RENO DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO DETECT A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM IN THE LOVELOCK AREA.  THE STORM WAS MOVING TO THE
NORTH-NORTHEAST AT BETWEEN 25 AND 30 MPH AND WILL CONTINUE TO AFFECT
THE LOVELOCK AREA FOR THE NEXT HALF HOUR.

THE EARLIER SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTHWESTERN CHURCHILL
COUNTY HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE.  NO SEVERE REPORTS HAVE BEEN
RECEIVED FROM NORTHWESTERN CHURCHILL COUNTY AS OF YET.

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 57 MPH
...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.  BE
AW:ARE OF THE DANGER OF LOCAL FLOODING CAUSED BY THUNDERSTORM RAINS.

HARO

The office that day

Everything else NWS Reno, NV issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 15, 1:40 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	REV	Churchill	45 min
Jun 15, 2:35 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	REV	Churchill, Pershing	55 min
Jun 15, 3:46 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	REV	Humboldt, Lander	49 min
Jun 15, 4:00 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	REV	Pershing	40 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Nevada, 1995 Every 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.