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Flash Flood Warning 8, NWS Reno, NV
NWS Reno, NV issued this flash flood warning at Jul 12, 1996, 7:51 PM PDT for Churchill County, Pershing County, Washoe County, Nevada. It was in force for 69 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, 7:51 PM PDT (02:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 12, 1996, 9:00 PM PDT
- In force
- 69 min
- Issued by
- NWS Reno, NV
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Churchill County, NV, Pershing County, NV, Washoe County, NV
The radar
The Reno radar (KRGX), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:55 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, 2.9 hours before the alert went out and 89 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KRNO 130254 RRA FFWRNO NVC027-001-031-130400- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RENO NV 751 PM PDT FRI JUL 12 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RENO HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 900 PM PDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONSS... IN NORTHWEST NEVADA ...SOUTHWESTERN PERSHING COUNTY IN WEST NEVADA ...WESTERN CHURCHILL COUNTY...EAST CENTRAL WASHOE COUNTY AT 750 PM DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUING OVER THE CHURCHILL-PERSHING COUNTY BORDER. THE STORMS ARE MOVING VERY SLOWLY AND HAVE SPREAD OVER THE PYRAMID LAKE AREA OF WASHOE COUNTY DURING THE LAST HOUR. THESE STORMS ARE PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN...HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS. DUE TO THE SLOW MOVING NATURE OF THESE STORMS FLASH FLOODING IS LIKELY OVER THE WARNING AREA. 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.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Reno, NV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 12, 5:45 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | REV | Churchill, Pershing | 60 min |
| 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, 8:30 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | REV | Douglas, Lyon | 60 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.