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Flash Flood Warning 3, NWS Reno, NV

June 12, 1998Washoe County, Nevada

NWS Reno, NV issued this flash flood warning at Jun 12, 1998, 5:10 PM PDT for Washoe County, Nevada. It was in force for 55 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
Jun 12, 1998, 5:10 PM PDT (00:10 UTC)
Expired
Jun 12, 1998, 6:05 PM PDT
In force
55 min
Issued by
NWS Reno, NV
Area
Whole counties

County Washoe County, NV

The radar

The Reno radar (KRGX), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:14 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Reno, NV (KREV), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 174 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 00:00Z on 1998-06-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 30 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 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 00:00Z on 1998-06-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -12 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
30 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-36 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1946 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-12 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-52 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KRNO 130013
FFWRNO
NVC031-130105-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RENO NV
510 PM PDT FRI JUN 12 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RENO HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  SOUTH CENTRAL WASHOE COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN NEVADA

* UNTIL 605 PM PDT

* AT 500 PM PDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR
  INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN 20 MILES SOUTH-
  SOUTHWEST OF GERLACH JUST WEST OF HIGHWAY 447.  THE THUNDERSTORM WAS
  SHOWING LITTLE OR NO MOVEMENT.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION
FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.

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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.