Alert archive / Nevada / Flash Flood Warnings in 1997
Flash Flood Warning 14, NWS Reno, NV
NWS Reno, NV issued this flash flood warning at Aug 8, 1997, 6:45 PM PDT for Lyon 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
County Lyon County, NV
The nearest sounding before it
Reno, NV (KREV), launched 00:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 105 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
- 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
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 flash flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Aug 8, 5:45 PM PDT, 1 hour before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RENO NEVADA
545 PM PST FRI AUG 08 1997
TIME(PST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0400 PM MINA NV FLOODING
08/08/97 MINERAL FLASH FLOODING ACROSS
HIGHWAY 95 BETWEEN MINA
AND SODAVILLE.
0440 PM YERINvGTON NV WIND DAMAGE
08/08/97 LYON THUNDERSTORM WIND GUST
BLEW DOWN TREES AND
BROKE LIMBS.Local storm report, Aug 8, 6:45 PM PDT, 0 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RENO NEVADA
545 PM PST FRI AUG 08 1997
TIME(PST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0400 PM MINA NV FLOODING
08/08/97 MINERAL FLASH FLOODING ACROSS
HIGHWAY 95 BETWEEN MINA
AND SODAVILLE.
0440 PM YERINGTON NV WIND DAMAGE
08/08/97 LYON THUNDERSTORM WIND GUST
BLEW DOWN TREES AND
BROKE LIMBS.The office that day
Everything else NWS Reno, NV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 8, 6:45 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | REV | Churchill, Pershing | 60 min |
| Aug 8, 6:45 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | REV | Churchill, Lyon | 60 min |
| Aug 8, 6:45 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | REV | Pershing | 60 min |
Nearby
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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.