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Flash Flood Warning 13, NWS Reno, NV

August 8, 1997Churchill County, Pershing County, Nevada

NWS Reno, NV issued this flash flood warning at Aug 8, 1997, 6:45 PM PDT for Churchill County, Pershing County, Nevada. It was in force for 60 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 8, 1997, 6:45 PM PDT (01:45 UTC)
Expired
Aug 8, 1997, 7:45 PM PDT
In force
60 min
Issued by
NWS Reno, NV
Area
Whole counties

Counties Churchill County, NV, Pershing County, NV

The nearest sounding before it

Reno, NV (KREV), launched 00:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 51 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, Reno, NV at 00:00Z on 1997-08-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 115 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, Reno, NV at 00:00Z on 1997-08-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -13 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
115 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-33 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
3561 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
10 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-13 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
7 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.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 8, 6:45 PM PDTFlash Flood WarningREVLyon60 min
Aug 8, 6:45 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningREVChurchill, Lyon60 min
Aug 8, 6:45 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningREVPershing60 min

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.