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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 1, NWS Reno, NV

May 24, 2000Churchill County, Nevada

NWS Reno, NV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 2000, 3:50 PM PDT for Churchill 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
May 24, 2000, 3:50 PM PDT (22:50 UTC)
Expired
May 24, 2000, 4:45 PM PDT
In force
55 min
Issued by
NWS Reno, NV
Area
Whole counties

County Churchill County, NV

The radar

The Reno radar (KRGX), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:52 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, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 12 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 2000-05-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 15 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 2000-05-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 24 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
15 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-166 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1461 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
5 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
24 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
62 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.

583 
WUUS55 KREV 242255
SVRRNO
NVC001-242345-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RENO NV
ISUUED BY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV
350 PM PDT WED MAY 24 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ELKO HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SOUTHWESTERN CHURCHILL COUNTY.

* UNTIL 445 PM PDT

* AT 349 PM PDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED   
  A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER SOUTHWESTERN CHURCHILL COUNTY 18 MILES  
  SOUTHEAST OF FALLON. THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING EAST AT   
  20 MPH.

* THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY OPEN COUNTRY ACROSS 
  SOUTHWESTERN CHURCHILL COUNTY.

VERY LARGE HAIL IS POSSIBLE WITH THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM. IF YOU ARE
IN THE PATH OF THE STORM...PUT YOUR CAR IN A GARAGE AND MOVE TO A
SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER.

$$
MF

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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.