Alert archive / Nevada / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 10, NWS Reno, NV
NWS Reno, NV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 30, 1997, 3:02 PM PDT for Churchill County, Nevada. It was in force for 63 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 30, 1997, 3:02 PM PDT (22:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 30, 1997, 4:05 PM PDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Reno, NV
- Area
- Whole counties
County Churchill County, NV
The radar
The Reno radar (KRGX), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:06 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 30, 3:05 PM PDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 | Fallon, NV | A severe thunderstorm near Fallon produced a wind gust to 50 kts. A 50 foot cottonwood tree was reported blown down. |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The nearest sounding before it
Reno, NV (KREV), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 12 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
- 2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -270 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1998 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 48 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 92 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.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Reno, NV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 30, 1:26 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | REV | Washoe | 59 min |
| Jul 30, 1:26 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | REV | Washoe | 59 min |
| Jul 30, 3:02 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | REV | Churchill | 63 min |
| Jul 30, 4:30 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | REV | Storey, Washoe | 60 min |
| Jul 30, 4:30 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | REV | Storey, Washoe | 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.