Severe Thunderstorm Warning 75, NWS Las Vegas, NV

Issued

Sep 2, 1997, 6:02 PM MST (01:02 UTC)

Expired

Sep 2, 1997, 7:00 PM MST

In force

58 min

Issued by

NWS Las Vegas, NV

Area

Whole counties

Counties Mohave County, AZ, Clark County, NV

The Las Vegas radar (KESX), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:10 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 030103 RRA
SVRLAS
AZC015-NVC003-030200-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV
602 PM PDT (602 PM MST) TUE SEP 2 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAS VEGAS HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  700 PM PDT (700 PM MST)
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...S...
 
IN NORTHWEST ARIZONA
 
   ...WEST CENTRAL MOHAVE COUNTY
 
 
IN SOUTH NEVADA
 
   ...EAST CENTRAL CLARK COUNTY
 
THIS INCLUDES THE LAKE MEAD RECREATION AREA AS WELL AS BOULDER CITY.
 
AT 600 PM LAS VEGAS DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ALONG
U.S. HIGHWAY 93 FOUR MILES SOUTHEAST OF HOOVER DAM. THIS THUNDERSTORM
WILL LIKELY BE ACCOMPANIED BY LARGE HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS IN EXCESS OF
60 MPH.
 
MOVEMENT OF THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS TO THE NORTHWEST AT 15 TO 20
MPH AND WILL AFFECT THE BOULDER CITY AREA AS WELL AS LAS VEGAS BAY AND
HOOVER DAM AREA DURING THE NEXT HOUR.
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS.  HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO
DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
 
KOSIER

NWS Las Vegas, NV wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Sep 2, 2:07 PM MST, 3 hours 55 minutes earlier.

MOJAVE DESERT/SOUTHERN GREAT BASIN AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV
205 PM PDT TUE SEP 2 1997

RADAR AND STLT BOTH INDICATE MOST OF FCST AREA CONVECTION-FREE WITH
EXCEPTION OF ERN SLOPES OF SIERRA NEVADA.  SEVERAL FACTORS LIKELY
INHIBITING T-STORM DEVELOPMENT THIS AFTERNOON.  TEMPS AT 21Z STILL
ONLY IN LOWER 80S OVER SRN NV WHICH IS STILL WELL BELOW CONVECTIVE
TEMPS.  RAINFALL FROM LAST NIGHT ALSO LIKELY STABILIZED LOWER
LAYERS TO SOME DEGREE AND CAPPING INVERSION AT 6OO MB ALSO A
FACTOR.  WITH ALL THAT SAID...WILL TRIM PRECIP CHANCE A CATEGORY OR
TWO FOR TONIGHT INTO ISOLD OR SCT.  ALL MDLS SHOW LITTLE CHG FOR
THE NEXT FEW DAYS WITH FCST AREA REMAINING UNDER A MOIST SOUTHEAST
FLOW WITH UNSTBL CONDS CONTINUING WITH FCST LI VALUES IN THE 0 TO
-2 CATEGORY.  THEREFORE...WILL CONTINUE BROAD-BRUSH APPROACH WITH
SCT POPS FOR MOST AREAS THROUGH THU.  LONGER RANGE MDLS CONTINUE TO
BRING TROUGH ALONG WEST COAST OVER THE WEEKEND WHICH SHOULD BRING A
DRIER SOUTHWEST FLOW THEREBY CUTTING OFF T-STORMS CHANCES.
LAS 2332. KOSIER

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

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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.