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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Las Vegas, NV

August 13, 1998Nye County, Nevada

NWS Las Vegas, NV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 13, 1998, 3:58 PM PDT for Nye County, Nevada. It was in force for 57 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
Aug 13, 1998, 3:58 PM PDT (22:58 UTC)
Expired
Aug 13, 1998, 4:55 PM PDT
In force
57 min
Issued by
NWS Las Vegas, NV
Area
Whole counties

County Nye County, NV

The nearest sounding before it

Mercury/Desert R, NV (KDRA), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 164 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, Mercury/Desert R, NV at 12:00Z on 1998-08-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 91 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Mercury/Desert R, NV at 12:00Z on 1998-08-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -52 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
91 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-256 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
3239 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-52 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-15 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 KLAS 132259
SVRLAS
NVC023-132355-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV
358 PM PDT THU AUG 13 1998


*  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR
   SOUTHEASTERN NYE COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEVADA

*  UNTIL 455 PM PDT

*  SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
   MERCURY
   PAHRUMP

*  AT 350 PM PDT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR MERCURY
AND WAS PRODUCING STRONG WINDS OVER 60 MPH.

MOVEMENT WAS TO THE SOUTH AT 15 MPH.

STRONG DAMAGING WINDS ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM...ESPECIALLY IN
THE PAHRUMP VALLEY.

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.