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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 5, NWS Las Vegas, NV

August 10, 1999Nye County, Nevada

NWS Las Vegas, NV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 10, 1999, 3:13 PM PDT for Nye County, Nevada. It was in force for 47 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

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The facts

Issued
Aug 10, 1999, 3:13 PM PDT (22:13 UTC)
Expired
Aug 10, 1999, 4:00 PM PDT
In force
47 min
Issued by
NWS Las Vegas, NV
Area
Whole counties

County Nye County, NV

The nearest sounding before it

Reno, NV (KREV), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 226 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 1999-08-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 8 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, Reno, NV at 12:00Z on 1999-08-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 54 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
8 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-279 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1687 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
54 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
295 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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.