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Flash Flood Warning 4, NWS Reno, NV
NWS Reno, NV issued this flash flood warning at Jul 12, 1996, 4:38 PM PDT for Churchill County, Pershing County, Nevada. It was in force for 62 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 12, 1996, 4:38 PM PDT (23:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 12, 1996, 5:40 PM PDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Reno, NV
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Churchill County, NV, Pershing County, NV
The radar
The Reno radar (KRGX), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:37 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 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 51 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
- 2188 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 1 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -41 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 4 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 122344 RRA FFWRNO NVC027-001-130045- BULLETIN FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RENO NV 438 PM PDT FRI JUL 12 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RENO HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 540 PM PDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTHWEST NEVADA ...EASTERN PERSHING COUNTY IN WEST NEVADA ...EASTERN CHURCHILL COUNTY THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAINFALL ARE MOVING SLOWLY ACROSS ALL OF EASTERN CHURCHILL AND EASTERN PERSHING COUNTIES. THESE STORMS ARE CROSSING STEEP MOUNTAINOUS TERRAIN WHERE HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING. 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. KNOW WHERE YOU ARE RELATIVE TO STREAMS...RIVERS...OR CREEKS WHICH CAN BECOME KILLERS IN HEAVY RAINS. CAMPERS SHOULD AVOID CAMPING ALONG STREAMS OR CREEKS DURING THREATENING RAINS.
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 12, 11:12 AM PDT, 5 hours 26 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RENO NEVADA
1106 AM PDT FRI JUL 12 1996
TIME(PDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0530 PM COLEVILLE CA
07/11/96 MONO *** 3 INJ ***
3 MARINES STRUCK BY
LIGHTNING. INJURIES: 1
CRITICAL 2 MINOR
0531 PM GALENA CREEK NV
07/11/96 WASHOE FUNNEL CLOUD PHOTOGRAPHED
OVER SLIDE MOUNTAIN 12 MI
StOUTHWEST OF RENOThe office that day
Everything else NWS Reno, NV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 11, 5:13 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | REV | Douglas | 62 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.