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Flash Flood Warning 14, NWS Reno, NV

August 8, 1997Lyon County, Nevada

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.

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°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.

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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 8, 6:45 PM PDTFlash Flood WarningREVChurchill, Pershing60 min
Aug 8, 6:45 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningREVChurchill, Lyon60 min
Aug 8, 6:45 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningREVPershing60 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.