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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 8, NWS Reno, NV

July 29, 1997Douglas County, Nevada

NWS Reno, NV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 29, 1997, 3:35 PM PDT for Douglas County, Nevada. It was in force for 85 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
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

County Douglas County, NV

The nearest sounding before it

Reno, NV (KREV), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 142 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 12:00Z on 1997-07-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 34 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Reno, NV at 12:00Z on 1997-07-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 41 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
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

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 29, 3:35 PM PDTFlash Flood WarningREVLyon, Storey85 min
Jul 29, 3:35 PM PDTFlash Flood WarningREVDouglas85 min
Jul 29, 3:35 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningREVLyon, Storey85 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.