Alert archive / Nevada / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 16, NWS Reno, NV
NWS Reno, NV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 8, 1997, 6:45 PM PDT for Churchill County, 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
Counties Churchill County, NV, Lyon County, NV
The nearest sounding before it
Reno, NV (KREV), launched 00:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 57 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
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KRNO 090155
SVRRNO
NVC001-019-027-090245-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING AND FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RENO NV
645 PM PDT FRI AUG 8 1997
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RENO HAS ISSUED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM AND FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 745 PM PDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
IN WESTERN NEVADA
SOUTHEASTERN PERSHING COUNTY
...INCLUDING THE CITY OF LOVELOCK.
NORTHERN LYON COUNTY
...INCLUDING FERNLEY...SILVER SPRINGS AND LAHONTAN
RESERVOIR.
ALL CHURCHILL COUNTY
...INCLUDING FALLON...TRINITY JUNCTION AND MIDDLEGATE.
AN AREA OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED FROM SILVER SPRINGS TO JUST
SOUTH OF LOVELOCK. THESE STORMS HAVE PRODUCED WIND GUSTS NEAR 50 MPH
AND LOCAL FLOODING DUE TO RAIN RUNOFF. THE STORMS WERE MOVING SLOWLY
NORTHEAST AND WILL SLOWLY DECREASE IN INTENSITY AFTER SUNSET.
EARLIER STORMS HAVE PRODUCED FLOODING IN SILVER SPRINGS AND NEAR MINA.
ALSO TREES HAVE BEEN REPORTED BEING BLOWN DOWN.
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 BUSINESS.
DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY. IT IS DIFFICULT TO JUDGE HOW DEEP THE WATER IS AND THE
ROAD MAY NOT BE INTACT. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD
BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE TO DHIGHER GROUND.What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm 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 | Flash Flood Warning | REV | Lyon | 60 min |
| Aug 8, 6:45 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | REV | Pershing | 60 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Nevada, 1997Every 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.