Alert archive / Nevada / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 59, NWS Las Vegas, NV
NWS Las Vegas, NV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 6, 1996, 2:06 PM PDT for Clark County, Nevada; Mohave County, Arizona; San Bernardino County, California. It was in force for 69 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 6, 1996, 2:06 PM PDT (21:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 6, 1996, 3:15 PM PDT
- In force
- 69 min
- Issued by
- NWS Las Vegas, NV
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Mohave County, AZ, San Bernardino County, CA, Clark County, NV
The radar
The Las Vegas radar (KESX), 15 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:54 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 6, 3:10 PM PDT | Hail 1 | Kingman, AZ | |
| Sep 6, 3:25 PM PDT | Hail 0.75 | Kingman Arpt, AZ |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The nearest sounding before it
Mercury/Desert R, NV (KDRA), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 147 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
- 1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -294 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2603 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 70 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 96 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Sep 6, 8:59 AM PDT, 5 hours 7 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 6, 8:59 AM PDT, 5 hours 7 minutes before
MOJAVE DESERT/SOUTHERN GREAT BASIN AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV 858 AM PDT FRI SEP 6 1996 PRBLMS W/SUPER COMPUTER BACK E THANKS TO T.S FRAN...SO MDLS DLAD. ALSO LOCAL PRBLM WITH NTRANS SO 12Z RUC UNAVBL. WX WISE...88D DETECTG A FEW SHWRS/TSTMS ALNG NV/AZ BRDR XNTND E INTO NW AZ AHD OF S/WV OVR SRN GRT BASIN THIS MRNG. LAST NGTS MDLS DEPICT SVRL WK IMPULSES WL CONT TO ROTATE THRU TROF LTR THIS AFTN/TNGT AND SAT WHICH AGN COULD ENHANCE CONVECTION OVR ERN HLF OF CWA WHERE LOW LVL MSTR WL RMN PLENTIFUL. FCST WORDED THAT WAY ATTM AND ONLY MINOR CHGS MADE. LAS 111. PIERCE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Las Vegas, NV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 6, 2:06 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | VEF | Clark | 69 min |
| Sep 6, 4:17 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | VEF | Clark | 58 min |
| Sep 6, 4:17 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | VEF | Clark | 58 min |
| Sep 6, 12:26 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | VEF | Mohave | 64 min |
| Sep 6, 12:59 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | VEF | Mohave | 61 min |
| Sep 6, 12:59 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | VEF | Mohave | 61 min |
| Sep 6, 3:18 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | VEF | Mohave | 57 min |
| Sep 6, 3:18 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | VEF | Mohave | 57 min |
| Sep 6, 2:06 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | VEF | San Bernardino | 69 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Nevada, 1996Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Arizona, 1996Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in California, 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.