Alert archive / Nevada / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 1, NWS Las Vegas, NV
NWS Las Vegas, NV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 24, 1995, 3:38 PM PST for Clark County, Nevada. It was in force for 67 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 24, 1995, 3:38 PM PST (23:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 24, 1995, 4:45 PM PST
- In force
- 67 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, 11.6 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2780 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 23 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 31 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 242342 RRA SVRLAS NVC003-250045- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV 338 PM PST FRI FEB 24 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAS VEGAS HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 445 PM PST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...... IN SOUTH NEVADA ...SOUTHERN CLARK COUNTY ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR EXTREME SOUTHERN CLARK COUNTY, TO INCLUDE THE CITY OF LAUGHLIN... AT 335 PM PST, LAS VEGAS RADAR DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER EXTREME SOUTHERN CLARK COUNTY. AT 312 PM, THE WEATHER SPOTTER AT BULLHE CITY AIRPORT REPORTED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WITH MODERATE RAIN AND A WINGUST TO 55 MPH. PERSONS IN LAUGHLIN AND THE LAKE MOHAVE RECREATION AREA SHOULD TAKE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN, STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. 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 T&HE ROAD. PIERCE/2340Z
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, Feb 24, 3:14 PM PST, 24 minutes before
NVZ009-250100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV 314 PM PST FRI FEB 24 1995 ...WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS MOVING ACROSS NORTHWEST ARIZONA... AT 310 PM PST, LAS VEGAS RADAR DETECTED A STRONG LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS OVER MOHAVE COUNTY IN ARIZONA. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED EAST OF BULLHEAD CITY. A WEATHER SPOTTER AT KATHERINE LANDING WAS REPORTING A THREATENING LOOKING THUNDERSTORM TO THE EAST OF LAKE MOHAVE. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN, STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. RESIDENTS AND BOATERS ALONG THE LOWER COLORADO RIVER VALLEY SHOULD CONTINUE TO MONITOR THE SITUATION BY LISTENING TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR FAVORITE TELEVISON OR RADIO STATION. PIERCE/2314Z
Special weather statement, Feb 24, 3:16 PM PST, 22 minutes before
NVZ009-250100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV 314 PM PST FRI FEB 24 1995 ...WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS MOVING ACROSS NORTHWEST ARIZONA... AT 310 PM PST, LAS VEGAS RADAR DETECTED A STRONG LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS OVER MOHAVE COUNTY IN ARIZONA. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED EAST OF BULLHEAD CITY. A WEATHER SPOTTER AT KATHERINE LANDING WAS REPORTING A THREATENING LOOKING THUNDERSTORM TO THE EAST OF LAKE MOHAVE. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN, STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. RESIDENTS AND BOATERS ALONG THE LOWER COLORADO RIVER VALLEY SHOULD CONTINUE TO MONITOR THE SITUATION BY LISTENING TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR FAVORITE TELEVISON OR RADIO STATION. PIERCE/2314Z
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.