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Flash Flood Warning 5, NWS Reno, NV

July 12, 1996Churchill County, Pershing County, Nevada

NWS Reno, NV issued this flash flood warning at Jul 12, 1996, 5:45 PM PDT for Churchill County, Pershing 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 12, 1996, 5:45 PM PDT (00:45 UTC)
Expired: Jul 12, 1996, 6:45 PM PDT
In force: 60 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 00:42 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, 0.8 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 246 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -6 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2802 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 10 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 31 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 130047 RRA
FFWRNO
NVC027-001-130145-
 
BULLETIN
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RENO NV
545 PM PDT FRI JUL 12 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RENO HAS CONTINUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 645 PM PDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN NORTHWEST NEVADA
 
   ...CENTRAL PERSHING COUNTY
 
IN WEST NEVADA
 
   ...CENTRAL CHURCHILL COUNTY
 
THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING ACROSS CENTRAL PERSHING AND CHURCHILL
COUNTIES. THESE STORMS HAVE A HISTORY OF FREQUENT HEAVY DOWNPOURS
WHICH CAN CAUSE FLASH FLOODING IN CREEKS AND WASHES. A FEW STORMS
WILL APPROACH THE LOVELOCK AREA BY 6 PM.
 
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.
 
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.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 12, 6:51 PM PDT	Flash Flood Warning	REV	Churchill, Pershing, Washoe	69 min
Jul 12, 7:30 PM PDT	Flash Flood Warning	REV	Lyon, Mineral	60 min
Jul 12, 7:51 PM PDT	Flash Flood Warning	REV	Churchill, Pershing, Washoe	69 min
Jul 12, 8:30 PM PDT	Flash Flood Warning	REV	Douglas, Lyon	60 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Nevada, 1996 Every 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.