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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 48, NWS Las Vegas, NV

August 16, 1996Mohave County, Arizona

NWS Las Vegas, NV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 16, 1996, 5:08 PM MST for Mohave County, Arizona. It was in force for 67 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
Aug 16, 1996, 5:08 PM MST (00:08 UTC)
Expired
Aug 16, 1996, 6:15 PM MST
In force
67 min
Issued by
NWS Las Vegas, NV
Area
Whole counties

County Mohave County, AZ

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 Aug 16, 3:09 PM MST, 1 hour 59 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 16, 3:09 PM MST, 1 hour 59 minutes before
MOJAVE DESERT/SOUTHERN GREAT BASIN AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV
300 PM PDT FRI AUG 16 1996

BUSY DEALING WITH SCT STG TO LCLLY SVR TRWS ACRS SRN NEVADA/NW ARIZONA
THIS AFTERNOON.  SEVERAL REPORTS OF HAIL RANGING FROM PEA SIZED TO
GOLFBALL SIZED HAVE BEEN RECEIVED WITH THE STORMS ACRS CLARK COUNTY
NEVADA.  MUCH QUIETER WX ON THE WAY TWD THE END OF THE WEEKEND.  12Z
PROGS IN GOOD AGREEMENT ON BRINGING UPR TROF INTO THE WRN US SAT AND
SUN.  MID LVL MSTR STILL SUFFICIENT ON SAT FOR ISOLD TO WDLY SCT
ACTIVITY.  MOST AREAS SHOULD BE DRY SUN AS SW ALF AND AT THE SFC
STRENGTHENS.  ONLY EXCEPTION WL BE ERN NEVADA ZN 8...WHERE NGM SHOWED
SOME MSTR AND INSTABILITY LAGGING BEHIND.  PER COOR WITH RNO...EXTND PD
LOOKS DRY ACRS NEVADA ZN 9.  MID LVL MSTR LOOKS AS THOUGH IT COULD HANG
BACK INTO NEVADA ZN 8...SO KEPT A CHC OF TRWS THERE THRU THE PD.
LAS 31-0. MATUSIEWICZ

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 16, 11:57 AM MST, 5 hours 11 minutes before
NVZ008-009-162155-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV
1156 AM PDT FRI AUG 16 1996

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HAD DEVELOPED ACROSS SOUTHERN NEVADA...

AT 1150 AM...LAS VEGAS DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR AND LIGHTNING DETECTION
CHARTS SHOWED WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE
HIGHER ELEVATIONS OF CLARK...SOUTHERN NYE...AND SOUTHERN LINCOLN
COUNTIES IN SOUTHERN NEVADA.  THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE LOCATED 40
MILES NORTHEAST OF BEATTY...10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF JEAN...AND LESS THAN
5 MILES NORTH OF MT. CHARLESTON.  VERY LITTLE MOVEMENT WAS INDICATED
WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS.

SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY CONTAIN SMALL HAIL...GUSTY WINDS...DEADLY
LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY DOWNLPOURS OF RAIN.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL RADIO AND TEVEVISION STATIONS
FOR FURTHER WEATHER INFORMATION.

MATUSIEWICZ
Local storm report, Aug 16, 12:54 PM MST, 4 hours 14 minutes before
30 NW LAS VEGAS MC CARRAN NV   1.75 INCH HAIL         08/16/96   CLARK
Local storm report, Aug 16, 3:44 PM MST, 1 hour 24 minutes before
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Local storm report, Aug 16, 4:09 PM MST, 59 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Aug 16, 4:17 PM MST, 51 minutes before
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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.