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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 36, NWS Las Vegas, NV

August 9, 1997San Bernardino County, California

NWS Las Vegas, NV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 9, 1997, 3:50 PM PDT for San Bernardino County, California. It was in force for 115 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 9, 1997, 3:50 PM PDT (22:50 UTC)
Expired
Aug 9, 1997, 5:45 PM PDT
In force
115 min
Issued by
NWS Las Vegas, NV
Area
Whole counties

County San Bernardino County, CA

The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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.

NWS Las Vegas, NV wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Aug 9, 2:17 PM PDT, 1 hour 33 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 9, 2:17 PM PDT, 1 hour 33 minutes before
MOJAVE DESERT/SOUTHERN GREAT BASIN AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV
215 PM PDT SAT AUG 9 1997

STLT LOOPER THIS AFTERNOON SHOWED T-STORMS OVER SPRING MTNS TO THE
NW OF LAS WITH OTHER STRONG STORMS NOTED OVER SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY
EAST OF BARSTOW.  T-STORMS NOT NEARLY AS WIDESPREAD AS YESTERDAY
AND EXPECT FURTHER DECREASE SUNDAY AS SOUTHWEST FLOW INCREASES.  NO
ETA OR MESO-ETA TO LOOK AT BUT NGM AND AVN BOTH PRETTY SIMILAR IN
INDICATING DRYING TREND.  DON'T THINK NW AZ WILL TOTALLY DRY OUT
SUNDAY...THUS WILL LEAVE MENTION OF ISOLD T-STORMS FOR THAT AREA AS
WELL AS HIGHER TERRAIN OF CENTRAL NV.  UPPER TROUGH OFF PAC NW
COAST FCST TO MOVE SOUTH TO BE NEAR NRN CA COAST MON MORNING.
BREEZY CONDS EXPECTED NEXT FEW DAYS AS H7 AND SFC GRADS INCREASE.
DURING EXTENDED PERIOD...MDLS SHIFT H5 HIGH CENTER EST TO TX
PANHANDLE EARLY NEXT WEEK BEFORE MOVING BACK TO THE WEST LATER IN
THE WEEK.  HIGH SHOULD BE FAR ENOUGH EAST FOR DRY CONDS TUE AND WED
WITH RETURN TO SOUTHERLY SLOW FOR INCREASING CHC OF T-STORMS THU.
LAS -000.  KOSIER

SRN NV...NONE
ERN CA...NONE
NW AZ ...NONE

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 9, 3:50 PM PDTFlash Flood WarningVEFSan Bernardino115 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in California, 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.