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Flash Flood Warning 14, NWS Reno, NV
NWS Reno, NV issued this flash flood warning at Jul 14, 1996, 6:15 PM PDT for Washoe County, Nevada. It was in force for 60 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 14, 1996, 6:15 PM PDT (01:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 14, 1996, 7:15 PM PDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Reno, NV
- Area
- Whole counties
County Washoe County, NV
The radar
The Reno radar (KRGX), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:15 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 174 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
- 147 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -50 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2566 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 24 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 51 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 KRNO 150118 COR FFWRNO NVC031-150215- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING...CORRECTION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RENO NV 615 PM PDT SUN JUL 14 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RENO HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 715 PM PDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN WESTERN NEVADA ...SOUTHEASTERN WASHOE COUNTY A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL CONTINUE TO PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAIN IN SOUTHEAST WASHOE COUNTY UNTIL AROUND 715 PM. FLASH FLOODING IS MOST LIKELY IN AND NEAR THE PAH RAH MOUNTAINS JUST EAST OF SPARKS. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL ONE...ON FOOT. TO ESCAPE RISING WATER MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jul 14, 12:44 PM PDT, 5 hours 31 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RENO NEVADA
1234 PM PDT SUN JUL 14 1996
TIME(PDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0310 PM TRUCKEE CA .75 INCH HAIL
07/13/96 NEVADA OFF-DUTY WEATHER SERVICE
TECH REPORTED CONTINUOUS
FALL OF DIME SIZED HAIL
MIXED WITH RAIN. HAIL ONE
INCH DEEP.
0355 PM TRUCKEE CA .75 INCH HAIL
07/13/96 NEVADA *** 1 INJ ***
CALIFORNIA HIGHWAY PATROL
REPORTED DIME SIZE HAIL A
FEW INCHES DEEP AT DONNER
PASS. ONE AUTO ACCIDENT
WITH 1 MINOR INJURY.
0707 PM FALLON NV FLOODING
07/13/96 CHURCHILL U.S. 50 CLOSED 25 MILES E
OF FALLON DUE TO
MUDSLIDE...REOPENED 3
HOURS LATER.
0736 PM GREENVILLE CA WIND DAMAGE
07/13/96 PLUMAS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM BLEW
DOWN SEVERAL TREES IN
GREENVILLE-LAKE ALMANOR
AREA... JUST WEST OF
COUNTY WARNINbG AREA.
0740 PM WESTWOOD CA .5 INCH HAIL
07/13/96 LASSEN SPOTTER REPORTED PEA-SIZED
HAIL FELL FOR LONG
DURATIONThe office that day
Everything else NWS Reno, NV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 14, 7:15 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | REV | Lyon, Washoe | 60 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Nevada, 1996Every flash flood warning in 1996
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.