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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 25, NWS Las Vegas, NV

July 26, 1996Clark County, Lincoln County, Nevada

NWS Las Vegas, NV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 26, 1996, 8:17 PM PDT for Clark County, Lincoln County, Nevada. It was in force for 58 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 26, 1996, 8:17 PM PDT (03:17 UTC)
Expired: Jul 26, 1996, 9:15 PM PDT
In force: 58 min
Issued by: NWS Las Vegas, NV
Area: Whole counties

Counties Clark County, NV, Lincoln County, NV

The radar

The Las Vegas radar (KESX), 137 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:17 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Mercury/Desert R, NV (KDRA), launched 00:00Z, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 100 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: 1257 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -54 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 3208 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 10 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 6 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

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Las Vegas, NV wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 26, 2:47 PM PDT, 5 hours 30 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 26, 2:47 PM PDT, 5 hours 30 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 26, 3:20 PM PDT, 4 hours 57 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 26, 5:45 PM PDT, 2 hours 32 minutes before

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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...UPDATE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV
544 PM PDT (544 PM MST) FRI JUL 26 1996

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO FAR EASTERN MOHAVE COUNTY...

AT 540 PM...LAS VEGAS DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS
MOVING INTO FAR EASTERN MOHAVE COUNTY.  THE LINE RAN FROM THE GRAND
WASH CLIFFS NORTH OF TRUXTON SOUTH TO THE AQUARIUS MOUNTAINS EAST
OF WIKIEUP.  THE LINE OF STORMS WAS MOVING TOWARD THE WEST TO
SOUTHWEST AT 15 MPH.

RADAR INDICATED THAT THE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING
STRONG...GUSTY WINDS TO NEAR 50 MPH...SMALL HAIL LOCALLY HEAVY
RAINS. THERE IS ALSO A CHANCE OF RESTRICTED VISIBILITY...PERHAPS TO
ONLY A FEW FEET...I.N BLOWING DUST.

PIERCE

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 26, 8:17 PM PDT	Flash Flood Warning	VEF	Clark, Lincoln	58 min
Jul 26, 8:36 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	VEF	Clark	69 min
Jul 26, 9:22 PM PDT	Flash Flood Warning	VEF	Clark, Lincoln	53 min
Jul 26, 9:22 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	VEF	Clark, Lincoln	53 min
Jul 26, 10:05 PM PDT	Flash Flood Warning	VEF	Clark	55 min
Jul 26, 11:04 PM PDT	Flash Flood Warning	VEF	Clark	56 min
Jul 26, 11:04 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	VEF	Clark	56 min
Jul 26, 6:10 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	VEF	Mohave	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.