Alert archive / Nevada / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 7, NWS Reno, NV
NWS Reno, NV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 15, 1995, 4:00 PM PDT for Pershing County, Nevada. It was in force for 40 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 15, 1995, 4:00 PM PDT (23:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 15, 1995, 4:40 PM PDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Reno, NV
- Area
- Whole counties
County Pershing County, NV
The nearest sounding before it
Reno, NV (KREV), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 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.
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KRNO 152301 RRA SVRRNO NVC027-152345- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RENO NV 400 PM PDT THU JUN 15 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RENO NEVADA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 445 PM PDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTHWESTERN NEVADA ...CENTRAL AND NORTHERN PERSHING COUNTY ...INCLUDING LOVELOCK...RYE PATCH RESERVOIR STATE RECREATIONAL AREA...AND IMLAY RENO DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO DETECT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN PERSHING COUNTY. THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST ALONG INTERSTATE 80 AND SHOULD AFFECT THE RYE PATCH RESERVOIR STATE PARK AND IMLAY BETWEEN 4:15 AND 4:30. THE EARLIER SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SOUTHERN PERSHING COUNTY HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 57 MPH ...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. BOATERS ARE URGED TO BE PREPARED FOR STRONG AND GUSTY WINDS OVER OPEN WATER...AND SEEK SAFE HARBOR IF CONDITIONS BECOME SEVERE. HARO
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 15, 3:33 PM PDT, 27 minutes before
NVZ004>006-160030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RENO NV 333 PM PDT THU JUN 15 1995 < ...intense thunderstroms are occurring over northern nevada...
Special weather statement, Jun 15, 3:35 PM PDT, 25 minutes before
NVZ004>006-160030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RENO NV 333 PM PDT THU JUN 15 1995 < ...intense thunderstroms are occurring over northern nevada...
Special weather statement, Jun 15, 3:40 PM PDT, 20 minutes before
NVZ004>006-160040- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RENO NV 340 PM PDT THU JUN 15 1995 ...INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING OVER NORTHERN NEVADA... RENO DOPPLER RADAR IS DETECTING AN INTENSE CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS MOVING NORTHWEST OUT OF NORTHERN LANDER COUNTY. THESE STORMS ARE LIKELY PRODUCING SMALL HAIL...HEAVY RAIN AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS. THE CENTER OF THE CLUSTER WAS LOCATED APPROXIMATELY 20 MILES WEST OF BATTLE MOUNTAIN AND WILL AFFECT SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF HUMBOLDT COUNTY FOR ABOUT THE NEXT HOUR. PERSONS OUT AND ABOUT IN NORTHERN NEVADA SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THIS DANGEROUS CLUSTER OF STORMS. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES ...TAKE COVER IN A REINFORCED SHELTER. 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, 3:25 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | REV | Pershing | 30 min |
| Jun 15, 3:46 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | REV | Humboldt, Lander | 49 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.