Alert archive / Nevada / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 7, NWS Las Vegas, NV
NWS Las Vegas, NV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 12, 1996, 3:51 PM PDT for Clark 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 12, 1996, 3:51 PM PDT (22:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 12, 1996, 4:45 PM PDT
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS Las Vegas, NV
- Area
- Whole counties
County Clark County, NV
The nearest sounding before it
Mercury/Desert R, NV (KDRA), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 99 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
- 31 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -321 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2473 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 7 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -7 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 17 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KLAS 122252 SVRLAS NVC003-122345- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV 351 PM PDT FRI JUL 12 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAS VEGAS HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 445 PM PDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...... IN SOUTH NEVADA ...CENTRAL CLARK COUNTY AT 345 PM...LAS VEGAS RADAR DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ABOUT 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF NELLIS AIR FORCE BASE MOVING TO THE EAST SOUTHEAST ABOUT 10 MPH. 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. KOSIER
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 12, 1:59 PM PDT, 1 hour 52 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 12, 1:59 PM PDT, 1 hour 52 minutes before
MOJAVE DESERT/SOUTHERN GREAT BASIN AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV 2 PM PDT FRI JUL 12 1996 T-STORM ACTIVITY A LITTLE SLOWER TO DEVELOP TDA THAN PAST FEW DAYS. ALSO MUCH OF T-STORMS OROGRAPHICALLY DRIVEN WITH FEW MAKING INTO VALLEYS THUS FAR. PER COOR WITH RNO/EKO WILL KEEP FFA CONFINED TO ZONE 8 FOR THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. WILL ALSO LEAVE T-STORM GOING INTO THE NIGHT AS THEY HAVE BEEN THE PAST FEW NIGHTS. ALL MDLS MAINTAIN RDG AXIS IN SAME GENERAL AREA NEXT FEW DAYS AND WITH REMAINS OF OLD HURRICANE BORIS CIRCULATION STILL SEE ACTIVITY CONTINUING THROUGH SUNDAY. NEW AVN CONSISTENT WITH LAST NIGHTS MRF RUN DIGGING TROUGH DOWN FROM PAC NW EARLY NEXT WEEK:. EUROPEAN EVEN COMING AROUND TO CLOSER TO MRF SO WILL CONTINUE WITH DRY FCST FOR EXTENDED. LAS 2121. KOSIER
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 12, 12:29 PM PDT, 3 hours 22 minutes before
NVZ009-122230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV 1227 PM PDT FRI JUL 12 1996 ...THUNDERSTORMS BUILDING OVER MOUNT CHARLESTON... THE FIRE DEPARTMENT AT KYLE CANYON IN MOUNT CHARLESTON INDICATED A LIGHT SHOWER WITH PEA SIZE HAIL AROUND 11:00 AM. LAS VEGAS DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A HEAVY THUNDERSTORM OVER THE AREA MOVING VERY SLOWLY TO THE NORTH. IF YOU ARE GOING TO THE SPRING MOUNTAIN AREA THIS AFTERNOON... ESPECIALLY MOUNT CHARLESTON BE PREPARED FOR LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS... HAIL AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS ARE FORECAST TO DEVELOP ACROSS THE LOWER ELEVATIONS LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. STAY TUNED TO THIS STATION FOR FURTHER ST$ATEMENTS AND FORECASTS. CHS/1925Z
Special weather statement, Jul 12, 2:09 PM PDT, 1 hour 42 minutes before
NVZ009-AZZ001-002-003-122315- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV 207 PM PDT (207 PM MST) FRI JUL 12 1996 ...WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER CLARK COUNTY IN SOUTHERN NEVADA AND CENTRAL MOHAVE COUNTY IN ARIZONA... LAS VEGAS DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS FROM THE VICINTY OF SEARCHLIGHT NORTHWEST TO MOUNT POTOSI AND THE MOUNT CHARLESTON AREA. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE NOTED IN MOHAVE COUNTY ALONG HIGHWAY 93 FROM DOLAN SPRINGS TO JUST NORTH OF KINGMAN. LITTLE MOVEMENT WAS NOTED DURING THE PAST 30 MINUETS. SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN... HAIL...STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. IF YOU ARE OUT AND ABOUT THIS AFTERNOON KEEP A WEATHER EYE TO THE SKY AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY SHOULD THUNDERSTORMS MOVE INTO YOUR AREA. STAY TUNED TO THIS STATION FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS AND FORECASTS. CHS/2107Z f
Local storm report, Jul 12, 2:32 PM PDT, 1 hour 19 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV
232 PM PDT FRI JUL 12 1996
1245 PM LEE CANYON NV 0.75 INCH HAIL.
07/10/96 CLARK
424 PM BULLHEAD CITY AZ 71 MPH TSTM GUST.
07/10/96 MOHAVE
430 PM HENDERSON NV TSTM WIND DAMAGE.
07/10/96 CLARK MICROBURST THUNDERSTORM
WINDS ESTIMATED BETWEEN
60 MPH AND 80 MPH HIT
BLACK MOUNTAIN GOLF COURSE
AND IMMEDIATE VICINITY.
MANY MATURE TREES KNOCKED
DOWN. SEVERAL POWER POLES
DOWN. AT LEAST TWO HOMES
LOST SIGNIFICANT PORTIONS
OF ROOFS AND NUMEROUS
HOMES LOST SHINGLES OR
ROOF TILES. THREE NEW
HOMES BEING FRAMED KNOCKED
DOWN AND SESVERAL FENCES
AND SIGNS ALSO DAMAGED.
807 PM NELLIS AFB NV 62 MPH TSTM WIND GUST.
07/10/96 CLARK IN NORTH LAS VEGAS.
500 PM MT CHARLESTON NV LIGHTNING STRIKE.
07/11/96 CLARK ***1 INJ***
MINOR INJURIES TO ONE
WOMAN AT A GIRL SCOUT CAMP
WHILE SHOWERING IN AN
OUTDOOR SHOWER.The office that day
Everything else NWS Las Vegas, NV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 11, 10:53 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | VEF | Clark | 67 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.