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Flash Flood Warning 16, NWS Reno, NV

August 13, 1996Douglas County, Nevada

NWS Reno, NV issued this flash flood warning at Aug 13, 1996, 2:50 PM PDT for Douglas County, Nevada. It was in force for 70 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
Aug 13, 1996, 2:50 PM PDT (21:50 UTC)
Expired
Aug 13, 1996, 4:00 PM PDT
In force
70 min
Issued by
NWS Reno, NV
Area
Whole counties

County Douglas County, NV

The radar

The Reno radar (KRGX), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:49 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 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 142 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 12:00Z on 1996-08-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 10 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 12:00Z on 1996-08-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 62 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
10 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-474 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2498 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
62 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
78 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KRNO 132153 RRA
FFWRNO
NVC005-132245-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RENO NV
250 PM PDT TUE AUG 13 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RENO HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  400 PM PDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN WEST NEVADA
 
   ...DOUGLAS COUNTY
 
HEAVY RAIN AND FLOODING WAS REPORTED IN THE GARDNERVILLE AREA AROUND
230 PM THIS AFTERNOON. DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS
MOVING NORTH ACROSS DOUGLAS COUNTY ALONG THE PINE NUT RANGE. PERSONS
LIVING ALONG THE WEST SLOPE OF PINE NUT MOUNTAINS IN THE JOHNSON LANE
AREA SHOULD BE ALERT TO POSSIBLE FLASH FLOODING.
 
 
DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY.  THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO
CROSS SAFELY.  VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE
ABANDONED QUICKLY.  MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.
 
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 GRnOUND.
 
TRC/2150Z

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 13, 4:00 PM PDTFlash Flood WarningREVDouglas, Washoe2 hr

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.