Severe Thunderstorm Warning 38, NWS Las Vegas, NV

Issued

Aug 9, 1997, 5:02 PM PDT (00:02 UTC)

Expired

Aug 9, 1997, 6:00 PM PDT

In force

58 min

Issued by

NWS Las Vegas, NV

Area

Whole counties

County Clark County, NV

The Las Vegas radar (KESX), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:04 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

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.

000 
TTAA00 KLAS 100003 RRA
SVRLAS
NVC003-100100-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV
502 PM PDT SAT AUG 9 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAS VEGAS HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  600 PM PDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS......
 
IN SOUTH NEVADA
 
   ...CENTRAL CLARK COUNTY
 
AT 5 PM...LAS VEGAS DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS
OCCURRING OVER CENTRAL CLARK COUNTY EXTENDING FROM THE SPRING
MOUNTAINS SOUTHEAST INTO THE LAS VEGAS VALLEY.
 
MOVEMENT OF THE STORMS WAS NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH.
 
WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A
STRONG BUILDING.  DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS.  DON'>T USE TELEPHONES
OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM
HAS PASSED.  MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.
 
KOSIER

NWS Las Vegas, NV wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Aug 9, 2:17 PM PDT, 2 hours 45 minutes earlier.

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

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Nevada, 1997Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1997

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.