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Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Reno, NV

January 25, 1997Clark County, Nevada

NWS Reno, NV issued this flash flood warning at Jan 25, 1997, 9:55 PM PST for Clark County, Nevada. It was in force for 8 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jan 25, 1997, 9:55 PM PST (05:55 UTC)
Expired
Jan 26, 1997, 6:00 AM PST
In force
8 hr
Issued by
NWS Reno, NV
Area
Whole counties

County Clark County, NV

The nearest sounding before it

Mercury/Desert R, NV (KDRA), launched 00:00Z, 5.9 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Mercury/Desert R, NV at 00:00Z on 1997-01-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 4 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 1997-01-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 100 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
4 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-13 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1066 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
77 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
100 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
203 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Nevada, 1997Every flash flood warning in 1997

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.