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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 5, NWS Reno, NV

July 29, 1996Lyon County, Nevada

NWS Reno, NV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 29, 1996, 3:06 PM PDT for Lyon County, Nevada. It was in force for 54 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 29, 1996, 3:06 PM PDT (22:06 UTC)
Expired
Jul 29, 1996, 4:00 PM PDT
In force
54 min
Issued by
NWS Reno, NV
Area
Whole counties

County Lyon County, NV

The radar

The Reno radar (KRGX), 85 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:09 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, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 105 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 1996-07-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1 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 1996-07-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 32 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
1 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
2017 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
32 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
63 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 292209
SVRRNO
NVC019-292300-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RENO NV
306 PM PDT MON JUL 29 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RENO HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  400 PM PDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN WEST NEVADA
 
   ...CENTRAL LYON COUNTY
 
DOPPLER RADAR INDICATES A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM SOUTHWEST OF YERINGTON.
THIS STORM SHOULD CROSS OVER THE TOWN OF YERINGTON BY 3:30 PM PDT.
STRONG WINDS AND HEAVY RAIN ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM.
 
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A
STRONG BUILDING.  DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...
AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS.
STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.
 
CAIRNS

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 29, 4:00 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningREVLyon, Mineral60 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Nevada, 1996Every severe thunderstorm 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.