Alert archive / Nevada / Flash Flood Warnings in 1998
Flash Flood Warning 10, NWS Reno, NV
NWS Reno, NV issued this flash flood warning at Jul 24, 1998, 3:56 PM PDT for Mineral County, Nevada. It was in force for 64 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 24, 1998, 3:56 PM PDT (22:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 24, 1998, 5:00 PM PDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Reno, NV
- Area
- Whole counties
County Mineral County, NV
The radar
The Reno radar (KRGX), 162 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:58 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Reno, NV (KREV), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 116 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
- 105 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -92 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1481 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 4 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 36 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KRNO 242259 FFWRNO NVC021-250000- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RENO NV 356 PM PDT FRI JUL 24 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RENO HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... WESTERN MINERAL COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL NEVADA * UNTIL 5 PM PDT * AT 345 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN NEAR HAWTHORNE AND WALKER LAKE. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING SLOWLY NORTH. * THUNDERSTORMS SOUTH OF HAWTHORNE WERE MOVING UP ALONG HIGHWAY 359 AND WERE PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING THROUGH STEEP TERRAIN AND LIKELY PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING AND POSSIBLE MUDSLIDES. THE STORMS WILL MOVE THROUGH THE HAWTHORE AREA AROUND 415 PM WITH POSSIBLE URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOODING. AREA RESIDENTS SHOULD MONITOR FLOOD CONDITIONS...AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND...SHOULD FLOOD WATERS THREATEN. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED...ACT QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jul 24, 10:30 AM PDT, 5 hours 26 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RENO NEVADA
1030 AM PDT FRI JUL 24 1998
TIME(PDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1220 PM WOODFORDS CA 0.19 INCHES RAIN
07/23/98 ALPINE IN 8 MINUTES
1315 PM 4 MI E OF SUSANVILLE CA 0.18 INCHES OF RAIN
07/23/98 LASSEN SMALL HAIL FROM
THUNDERSTORM
1325 PM WELLINGTON CA 0.5 INCHES RAIN IN 10
07/23/98 DOUGLAS MINUTES
WATER OVER ROAD
1345 PM RENO NV 0.23 INCHES RAIN
07/23/98 WASHOE IN 15 MINUTES
1355 PM RENO NV 0.11 INCHES RAIN
07/23/98 WASHOE IN 13 MINUTES
1500 PM WALKER CANYON CA 0.45 INCHES RAIN
07/23/98 MONO IN 20 MINUTES
WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH
1615 PM 17 MI S BRIDGEPORT CA FLOODED ROADWAYS
07/23/98 MONO MINOR MUD SLIDES
ROCKS OVER ROAD
PORTION OF HIGHWAY 395
CLOSED
1620 PM EAGLEVILLE CA ROCKS WASHED ON TO ROAD
07/23/98 MONO MINOR MUD SLIDES
1705 PM SHERIFF OFFICE NV ROCKS AND WATER
07/23/98 MINERAL OVER ROADWAY ON HIGHWAY
359
1730 PM LEE VINING CA 0.36 INCHES RAIN
07/23/98 MONO IN 30 MINUTES
2040 PM FERNLEY NV FLASH FLOODING
07/23/98 LYON WATER OVER LOWLAND ROADS
0200 AM CONWAY SUMMIT CA DEBRIS OVER ROAD
7/24/98 MONO ROAD CLOSED FOR ABOUT
AN HOURLocal storm report, Jul 24, 10:30 AM PDT, 5 hours 26 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RENO NEVADA
1030 AM PDT FRI JUL 24 1998
TIME(PDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1220 PM WOODFORDS CA 0.19 INCHES RAIN
07/23/98 ALPINE IN 8 MINUTES
1315 PM 4 MI E OF SUSANVILLE CA 0.18 INCHES OF RAIN
07/23/98 LASSEN SMALL HAIL FROM
THUNDERSTORM
1325 PM WELLINGTON CA 0.5 INCHES RAIN IN 10
07/23/98 DOUGLAS MINUTES
WATER OVER ROAD
1345 PM RENO NV 0.23 INCHES RAIN
07/23/98 WASHOE IN 15 MINUTES
1355 PM RENO NV 0.11 INCHES RAIN
07/23/98 WASHOE IN 13 MINUTES
1500 PM WALKER CANYON CA 0.45 INCHES RAIN
07/23/98 MONO IN 20 MINUTES
WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH
1615 PM 17 MI S BRIDGEPORT CA FLOODED ROADWAYS
07/23/98 MONO MINOR MUD SLIDES
ROCKS OVER ROAD
PORTION OF HIGHWAY 395
CLOSED
1620 PM EAGLEVILLE CA ROCKS WASHED ON TO ROAD
07/23/98 MONO MINOR MUD SLIDES
1705 PM SHERIFF OFFICE NV ROCKS AND WATER
07/23/98 MINERAL OVER ROADWAY ON HIGHWAY
359
1730 PM LEE VINING CA 0.36 INCHES RAIN
07/23/98 MONO IN 30 MINUTES
2040 PM FERNLEY NV FLASH FLOODING
07/23/98 LYON WATER OVER LOWLAND ROADS
0200 AM CONWAY SUMMIT CA DEBRIS OVER ROAD
7/24/98 MONO ROAD CLOSED FOR ABOUT
AN HOURThe office that day
Everything else NWS Reno, NV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 23, 5:13 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | REV | Lyon | 62 min |
| Jul 23, 8:50 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | REV | Churchill, Lyon | 85 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Nevada, 1998Every flash flood warning in 1998
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.