Alert archive / Nevada / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 7, NWS Reno, NV
NWS Reno, NV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 29, 1997, 3:35 PM PDT for Lyon County, Storey County, Nevada. It was in force for 85 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 29, 1997, 3:35 PM PDT (22:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 29, 1997, 5:00 PM PDT
- In force
- 85 min
- Issued by
- NWS Reno, NV
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Lyon County, NV, Storey County, NV
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 29, 5:00 PM PDT | Thunderstorm Wind 65 | Fernley, NV | A severe thunderstorm produced an estimated wind gust to 65 kts in Fernley. Tree limbs and a phone line were reported down. Power outages also occurred in the area. Alternate Highway 50 was closed briefly due to blowing dust. |
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, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 106 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
- 34 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -153 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1681 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 41 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 82 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 29, 3:35 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | REV | Lyon, Storey | 85 min |
| Jul 29, 3:35 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | REV | Douglas | 85 min |
| Jul 29, 3:35 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | REV | Douglas | 85 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.