Alert archive / Nevada / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 7, NWS Las Vegas, NV
NWS Las Vegas, NV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 22, 1995, 4:55 PM PDT for Clark County, Nevada. It was in force for 65 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 22, 1995, 4:55 PM PDT (23:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 22, 1995, 6:00 PM PDT
- In force
- 65 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, 11.9 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
- 346 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -80 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1551 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 26 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 14 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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 Aug 22, 2:36 PM PDT, 2 hours 19 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 22, 2:36 PM PDT, 2 hours 19 minutes before
SOUTHERN NEVADA AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV 235 PM PDT TUE AUG 22 1995 SKY LUKG DESPERATELY QUIET ACRS SRN NV VLYS THIS AFTN. OUR NEMESIS... LOW LVL DIVERGNC...APRNTLY BIG FCTR AGN (SEE LOW LVL RAFS DIV PRODS) WITH INBLTY OF ATMOS TO GNRT SIG CNVCTN AT VLY LVLS. NONETHELESS... RAFS IS INDCTG TREND TWRD LTL LESS LOW LVL DIV AS AFTN GOES ON AND STLT IS SHOWG SMALL CU FIELD DVLPG LWR CO VLY INTO W-CNTL AZ. GIVEN INSTBLTY AND MOISTNESS OF ATMOS...STILL A GOOD IDEA TO HANG ON TO LOW POPS SRN NV THIS EVE. BUT FFA MAY BE A BIT XTRM; FEEL BEST TO LIMIT THREAT AREA TO HIER TRRN (WHR THERE HAS BEEN AND IS ACTVTY.) TMRW A LTL DIFF WITH POTENTIAL FOR SOME MID/UPPR LVL FORCING WITH APPRCH OF BAJA SYS...THO APPRS DRY TONGUE SHOWING ON WV PUSHING UP LWR CO VLY MAY BE MORE OVER US BY THEN. LOW POPS STILL JUSTFD TMRW. BUT TREND CERTAINLY TWRDS LESS MENTION OF ACTVTY IN COMING DAYS AS TROF DIGS IN TO PAC NW INCRSG SWLY FLOW ACROSS AREA. TEMPS WARM UP AS WELL. MAC LAS BU 077/101/077/103 2221 DRA BU 070/093/070/096 3221 IFP BU 081/108/081/110 2221 .VEF...SE RNO SFD
The office that day
Everything else NWS Las Vegas, NV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 22, 4:55 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | VEF | Clark | 65 min |
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.