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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 10, NWS Reno, NV
NWS Reno, NV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 26, 2000, 5:21 PM PDT for Plumas County, Sierra County, California. It was in force for 24 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 26, 2000, 5:21 PM PDT (00:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 26, 2000, 5:45 PM PDT
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS Reno, NV
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Plumas County, CA, Sierra County, CA
The nearest sounding before it
Reno, NV (KREV), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 213 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 108 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3220 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 2 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 2 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -3 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Reno, NV wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 26, 2:25 PM PDT, 2 hours 56 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 26, 2:25 PM PDT, 2 hours 56 minutes before
NORTHEAST CALIFORNIA AND WESTERN NEVADA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RENO NV
225 PM PDT MON JUN 26 2000
UNSTABLE AND MOIST AIRMASS PRODUCING THUNDERSTORMS ACRS PORTIONS OF
FORECAST AREA THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. MAIN FOCUS IS STILL ACRS SRN
PTN OF FORECAST AREA WITH WEAK COUPLETING AND MORE UNSTABLE AIRMASS.
NOT MUCH WILL CHANGE OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL DAYS AS EASTERN PACIFIC
RIDGE AND SOUTHWEST U.S. RIDGE WL STRENGTHEN WITH THEIR CENTERS
REMAINING NEARLY STATIONARY. SO FORECAST OF PERSISTENCE WITH AFTN AND
EVENING TSTMS THROUGH FRIDAY. MODELS ARE DEPICTING STRONG TROUGH IN
THE GULF OF ALASKA TO DROP SOUTHWARD TOWARD THE END OF THE WEEK. WILL
TAKE CONSERVATIVE APPROACH AND CALL FOR DRY AND SLIGHTLY COOLER
CONDITIONS WITH LOCALLY BREEZY CONDITIONS ON SATURDAY AFTERNOON. ADAMS
.REV...EASTERN CALIFORNIA...NONE.
WESTERN NEVADA...NONE.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.