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Flash Flood Warning 13, NWS Reno, NV

July 13, 1996Lassen County, California

NWS Reno, NV issued this flash flood warning at Jul 13, 1996, 6:32 PM PDT for Lassen County, California. It was in force for 58 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 13, 1996, 6:32 PM PDT (01:32 UTC)
Expired
Jul 13, 1996, 7:30 PM PDT
In force
58 min
Issued by
NWS Reno, NV
Area
Whole counties

County Lassen County, CA

The radar

The Reno radar (KRGX), 140 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:35 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Reno, NV (KREV), launched 00:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 238 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Reno, NV at 00:00Z on 1996-07-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 256 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Reno, NV at 00:00Z on 1996-07-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 0 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
256 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-54 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2526 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
0 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
9 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Reno, NV issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 13, 5:30 PM PDTFlash Flood WarningREVLassen, Plumas60 min
Jul 13, 5:30 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningREVLassen, Plumas60 min
Jul 13, 6:32 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningREVLassen58 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.