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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Las Vegas, NV

July 15, 1996Lincoln County, Nevada

NWS Las Vegas, NV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 15, 1996, 6:09 PM PDT for Lincoln County, Nevada. It was in force for 66 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 15, 1996, 6:09 PM PDT (01:09 UTC)
Expired
Jul 15, 1996, 7:15 PM PDT
In force
66 min
Issued by
NWS Las Vegas, NV
Area
Whole counties

County Lincoln County, NV

The nearest sounding before it

Mercury/Desert R, NV (KDRA), launched 00:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 151 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, Mercury/Desert R, NV at 00:00Z on 1996-07-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 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, Mercury/Desert R, NV at 00:00Z on 1996-07-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 3 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
3362 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
3 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
22 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 15, 6:09 PM PDTFlash Flood WarningVEFLincoln66 min
Jul 15, 6:20 PM PDTFlash Flood WarningVEFLincoln55 min
Jul 15, 6:20 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningVEFLincoln55 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.