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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Reno, NV

August 8, 1997Douglas County, Lyon County, Nevada

NWS Reno, NV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 8, 1997, 4:45 PM PDT for Douglas County, Lyon County, Nevada. It was in force for 2 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: Aug 8, 1997, 4:45 PM PDT (23:45 UTC)
Expired: Aug 8, 1997, 6:45 PM PDT
In force: 2 hr
Issued by: NWS Reno, NV
Area: Whole counties

Counties Douglas County, NV, Lyon County, NV

The nearest sounding before it

Reno, NV (KREV), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 123 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 2905 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 0 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -5 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KRNO 082351 RRA
SVRRNO
NVC510-001-005-019-021-029-090145-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RENO NV                                  
445 PM PDT FRI AUG 8 1997

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RENO HAS ISSUED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 645 PM PDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE
FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...

IN WESTERN NEVADA 
     SOUTHERN STOREY COUNTY 
     ...INCLUDING VIRGINIA CITY...GOLD HILL AND SIX MILE CANYON.

     NORTHERN MINERAL COUNTY 
     ...INCLUDING THE TOWN OF SCHURZ.

     ALL LYON COUNTY 
     ...INCLUDING FERNLEY...SILVER SPRINGS...DAYTON...YERINGTON
        AND WELLINGTON.

     ALL DOUGLAS COUNTY 
     ...INCLUDING THE CITIES OF STATELINE...GLENBROOK...MINDEN...
        GARDNERVILLE...AND HOLBROOK JUNCTION.

     SOUTHERN CHURCHILL COUNTY 
     ...INCLUDING THE COMMUNITY OF MIDDLEGATE.

     EASTERN CARSON CITY COUNTY  

AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED OVER PORTIONS OF WESTERN NEVADA
THIS AFTERNOON.  THE STORMS ARE SHORT LIVED BUT HAVE ALREADY PRODUCED
AREAS OF FLASH FLOODING AND VERY STRONG WINDS.  THESE TYPE STORMS WILL
CONTINUE TO DEVELOP OVER THE AREA THROUGH EARLY THIS EVENING.  

THE MINERAL COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE REPORTED WATER ACROSS HIGHWAYS 95
BETWEEN MINA AND SODAVILLE.  ALSO STRONG WINDS HAVE BLOWN OVER TREES
NEAR YERINGTON.

BE PREPARED TO SEEK SHELTER QUICKLY SHOULD STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVE OR
DEVELOP IN YOUR AREA.

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...
HEAVY RAIN...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING.  FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO
AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUISNESS. 
HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY.  DO NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE
WATER COVERS THE ROAD.

PLEASE REFER TO THE LATEST SHORT TERM FORECASTS AND SEVERE
WEATHER STATEMENTS FOR UPDATES TO THIS WARNING.

PIKE

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 8, 4:45 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	REV	Churchill, Mineral	2 hr
Aug 8, 4:45 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	REV	Storey	2 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Nevada, 1997 Every severe thunderstorm 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.