Alert archive / Nevada / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Las Vegas, NV
NWS Las Vegas, NV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 1995, 12:12 PM PDT for Clark County, Nevada. It was in force for 48 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 24, 1995, 12:12 PM PDT (19:12 UTC)
- Expired
- May 24, 1995, 1:00 PM PDT
- In force
- 48 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, 7.2 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
- 352 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -19 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 757 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 26 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 60 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 241919 COR SVRLAS NVC003-242000- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING...CORRECTED TO ADD CALL TO ACTION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV 1215 PM PDT WED MAY 24 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAS VEGAS HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 100 PM PDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...... IN SOUTH NEVADA ...EASTERN CLARK COUNTY AT 1210 PM RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ABOUT 6 MILES SOUTHEAST OF DOWNTOWN LAS VEGAS. HALF-INCH DIAMETER HAIL WAS REPORTED ON SAHARA AVENUE IN EAST LAS VEGAS. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...LARGE HAIL...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER... PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. KOSIER
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.
NWS Las Vegas, NV wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 24, 8:11 AM PDT, 4 hours 1 minute earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 24, 8:11 AM PDT, 4 hours 1 minute before
QUICK LOOK AT 12Z ETA SHOWS LITTLE CHAMGE FROM PAST RUNS. LOOKS LIKE ANOTHER BUSY DAY HERE. UNMODIFIED DRA SOUNDING SHOWS -3 LI. MODIFIED SOUNDING FOR THIS AFTERNOON ON SHARP SHOWS -8 LI WITH CAPE OF NEARLY 2700 J-KG. WILL ISSUE SPS HORTLY FOR THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT THIS AFTERNOON. WINDS ARE FAIRLY LIGHT SO THINK FLASH FLOODING A GOOD POSSIBILITY. THINKING OF FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. TODAY LOOKS TO BE THE MOST ACTIVE DAY WITH A LITTLE LESS ACTIVITY EXPECTED THURSDAY. EXTENDED MDLS CONTINUE TO BUILD RDG INTO THE AREA FRI THROUGH THE WEEKEND SO CURRENT FCST LOOKS GOOD. WILL BUMP UP MAX TEMPS AGAIN AS MOS CONTINUES TO REMAIN TOO COOL. LAS 3-2 DRA 3-2. KOSIER LAS 84/60/85 DRA 77/57/80
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 24, 9:45 AM PDT, 2 hours 27 minutes before
NVZ008-009-250500- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV 945 AM PDT WED MAY 24 1995 ...THUNDERSTORMS EXPECTED AGAIN ACROSS SOUTHERN NEVADA THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING... THUNDERSTORMS ARE AGAIN EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ACROSS SOUTHERN NEVADA THIS AFTERNOON. LOW PRESSURE ALOFT LOCATED OVER EASTERN NEVADA CONTINUED TO PRODUCE VERY MOIST AND UNSTABLE CONDITIONS OVER SOUTHERN NEVADA WHICH WILL ENHANCE THE THUNDERSTORMS LATER TODAY AND THIS EVENING. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL LIKELY PRODUCE LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL AND WITH SLOW MOVEMENT OF THE STORMS EXPECTED...SOME LOCAL FLOODING COULD OCCUR. IN ADDITION...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...SMALL HAIL AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE. PERSONS PLANNING OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING... ESPECIALLY THOSE PLANNING A TRIP TO THE MOUNTAINS OR LAKE MEAD SHOULD BE ALERT FOR THUNDERSTORMS AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO A SAFE SHELTER. PLEASE CONTINUE TO MONITOR THE NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR COMMERCIAL RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS. KOSIER
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.