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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 11, NWS Reno, NV

September 29, 1998Mineral County, Nevada

NWS Reno, NV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 29, 1998, 1:39 PM PDT for Mineral County, Nevada. It was in force for 61 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
Sep 29, 1998, 1:39 PM PDT (20:39 UTC)
Expired
Sep 29, 1998, 2:40 PM PDT
In force
61 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 20:39 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 12:00Z, 8.7 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Reno, NV at 12:00Z on 1998-09-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 136 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 12:00Z on 1998-09-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 80 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
136 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-184 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1851 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
80 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
111 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.

281 
WUUS1 KRNO 292045 RRA
SVRRNO
NVC021-292140-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RENO NV
139 PM PDT TUE SEP 29 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RENO HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  MINERAL COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL NEVADA

* UNTIL 240 PM PDT

* AT 135 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORMS 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MINA NV AND 10 MILES SOUTHEAST
  OF HAWTHORNE... MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 15 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
  HIGHWAY 359 SOUTH OF HAWTHORNE WITHIN THE NEXT 45 MINUTES.


SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 60 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 DONT
DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.

Nearby

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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.