Alert archive / Nevada / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 5, NWS Las Vegas, NV
NWS Las Vegas, NV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 30, 1995, 6:20 PM PDT for Lincoln County, Nevada. It was in force for 55 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 30, 1995, 6:20 PM PDT (01:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 30, 1995, 7:15 PM PDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Las Vegas, NV
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lincoln County, NV
The nearest sounding before it
Mercury/Desert R, NV (KDRA), launched 00:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 151 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
- 3869 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 4 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -16 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -20 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 010121 RRA SVRLAS NVC017-010215- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV 620 PM PDT FRI JUN 30 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAS VEGAS NV HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 715 PM PDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN EASTERN NEVADA ...EAST CENTRAL LINCOLN COUNTY ...INCLUDING HIGHWAY 93 WEST OF CALIENTE AND THE TOWN OF CALIENTE AT 615 PM PDT...LAS VEGAS DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CALIENTE. THE STORM WAS MOVING TOWARD THE NORTH AT 10 MPH. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 57 MPH... DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VExRY HEAVY RAIN. SEEK SHELTER IN A STRONG BUILDING...BUT STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. BKP/0120Z
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 Jun 30, 2:26 PM PDT, 3 hours 54 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 30, 2:26 PM PDT, 3 hours 54 minutes before
LTL TIME THIS AFT FOR FCST WX. HAVE BEEN MONITORING STRONG ECHO NE OF BTY. ALSO CELLS POPPING UP HERE AND THERE ACROSS CLARK AND LINCOLN COUNTIES. CAPES PUSHING 1500 AT THIS TIME...(BASED ON 92/45 FOR DRA. SO...CURRENT FCST FOR THIS EVE STL LUKS ON TRACK. WK SW FLW TO CONT THRU WKND WITH MODELS SHOWING DRYIER AND MORE STABLE AIR MOVG IN THEY'VE BEEN SHOWING DRYING FOR SEVERAL DAYS NOW BUT IT HASN'T BEEN HAPPENING. I THINK ENUF MOISTURE WL REMAIN OVER THE CWA WITH WK INSTABILIT TO KEEP ISO TO WIDELY SCT AROUND THE AREA THRU AT LEAST SAT AND MAYBE INTO SUN. PRIND INC HI LEVEL MOISTURE TMW NIGHT INTO SUN WITH COULD HELP WITH A FEW HI BASED TSTMS ON SUN AFT...ALONG WITH POTENTIALLY COOLER T(EMPS ALOFT. HI TEMPS TO SHOW LTL CHANGE NEXT COUPLE DAYS. EXTENDED LUKS MOSTLY DRY WITH COOLER THAN NORMAL TEMPS. LAS 2111 DRA 2111. SKRBAC LAS 72/98/71/98 DRA 67/91/66/91 .VEF...NONE.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 30, 1:40 PM PDT, 4 hours 40 minutes before
NVZ008-009-302130-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV
140 PM PDT FRI JUN 30 1995
...THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER SOUTHERN NEVADA...
AT 1:30 PM PDT...LAS VEGAS DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED WIDELY SCATTERED
THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING OVER THE MOUNTAINS OF SOUTHERN NEVADA.
THE STRONGEST STORM WAS LOCATED 40 MILES NORTHEAST OF BEATTY NEVADA...
IN SOUTHERN NYE COUNTY. THIS STORM IS MOVING SLOWLY TO THE EAST.
OTHER STRONG STORMS WERE BUILDING OVER CENTRAL LINCOLN AND CLARK COUNTY
IN NEVADA. THE MOVEMENT OF THESE STORMS IS TO THE EAST.
MANY OF THESE STORMS WILL GENERATE STRONG GUSTY WINDS WITH BRIEF
PERIODS OF REDUCED VISBILITY DUE TO BLOWING DUST. THESE STORMS HAVE THE
POSSIBILITY OF PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN...DEADLY LIGHTING...AND HAIL.
STAY TUNDED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL TELEVISION OR RADIO
STATIONS FOR LATEST INFORMATION ON THIS SITUATION.
JWS/2038ZSpecial weather statement, Jun 30, 4:59 PM PDT, 1 hour 21 minutes before
NVZ008-009-010230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...UPDATE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV 458 PM PDT FRI JUN 30 1995 ...THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL AND EXTREME SOUTHERN NEVADA... AT 450 PM PDT...LAS VEGAS DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS CLARK...LINCOLN AND NYE COUNTIES IN SOUTHERN NEVADA. THE AREA OF STRONGEST STORMS WAS FROM NORTH OF INDIAN SPRINGS...NORTHEASTWARD INTO LINCOLN COUNTY TO JUST SOUTH OF CALIENTE. ANOTHER AREA OF STRONG STORMS WAS NOTED SOUTHEAST OF TONOPAH OVER THE OPEN DESERT. MOVEMENT OF THE STORMS IS TOWARD THE NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. PERSONS HEADING TO RECREATIONAL FACILITIES THIS EVENING FOR THE HOLIDAY WEEKEND SHOULD KEEP ALERT OF :THE CURRENT WEATHER CONDITIONS. THESE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...SMALL HAIL...STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. ALSO...REMEMBER DO NOT TRY TO CROSS FLOODED ROADWAYS OR WASHES. PIERCE
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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.