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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Reno, NV

June 29, 2000Douglas County, Nevada; Alpine County, California

NWS Reno, NV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 29, 2000, 2:11 PM PDT for Douglas County, Nevada; Alpine County, California. It was in force for 34 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.

The facts

Issued: Jun 29, 2000, 2:11 PM PDT (21:11 UTC)
Expired: Jun 29, 2000, 2:45 PM PDT
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS Reno, NV
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Alpine County, CA, Douglas County, NV

The radar

The Reno radar (KRGX), 109 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:11 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 162 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 2571 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 1 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -23 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 77 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 
WUUS55 KREV 292114
SVRRNO
CAC003-NVC005-292145-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RENO NV
211 PM PDT THU JUN 29 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RENO HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTH CENTRAL ALPINE COUNTY IN CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
  THIS INCLUDES THE TOWN OF WOODFORDS
  WESTERN DOUGLAS COUNTY IN WESTERN NEVADA
  THIS INCLUDES THE TOWN OF GARDNERVILLE

* UNTIL 245 PM PDT

* AT 201 PM PDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED   
  A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER WOODFORDS CANYON...OR ABOUT 2 MILES     
  WEST OF WOODFORDS...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF GARDNERVILLE AT 245 PM PDT

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE CENTERVILLE

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD PREPARE
FOR DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...LARGE HAIL...AND DEADLY
LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER...PREFERABLY
INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY
WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST
OFFICE IN RENO.

LAT...LON 3877 11998 3864 11982 3885 11953 3900 11972

SO/TC

The office that day

Everything else NWS Reno, NV issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 28, 5:11 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	REV	Lyon, Storey, Washoe	34 min
Jun 28, 6:45 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	REV	Douglas, Lyon, Washoe	20 min
Jun 29, 3:58 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	REV	Washoe	42 min
Jun 29, 4:30 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	REV	Storey, Washoe	30 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Nevada, 2000 Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in California, 2000 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2000

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.