Alert archive / Nevada / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 15, NWS Reno, NV
NWS Reno, NV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 29, 2000, 4:30 PM PDT for Storey County, Washoe County, Nevada. It was in force for 30 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, 4:30 PM PDT (23:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 29, 2000, 5:00 PM PDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Reno, NV
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Storey County, NV, Washoe County, NV
The radar
The Reno radar (KRGX), 40 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:30 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, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 129 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS55 KREV 292330 SVRRNO NVC029-031-300000- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RENO NV 430 PM PDT THU JUN 29 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RENO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... WESTERN STOREY COUNTY IN WESTERN NEVADA SOUTH CENTRAL WASHOE COUNTY IN WESTERN NEVADA * UNTIL 500 PM PDT * AT 420 PM PDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES SOUTH OF LOCKWOOD...OR ABOUT 6 MILES NORTH OF VIRGINIA CITY...MOVING NORTH AT 15 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... 3 MILES WEST OF LOCKWOOD AT 445 PM PDT NEAR EASTERN SPARKS AT 455 PM PDT HAIL...INTENSE RAIN AND STRONG DAMAGING WINDS ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. LOCAL FLOODING IS POSSIBLE ALONG THE VIRGINIA AND PAH RAH RANGE FROM THIS STORM. 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 3930 11976 3935 11953 3967 11962 3959 11981
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 29, 3:30 PM PDT, 1 hour earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 29, 3:30 PM PDT, 1 hour before
NORTHEAST CALIFORNIA AND WESTERN NEVADA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RENO NV
330 PM PDT THU JUN 29 2000
AFTERNOON TSTMS DEVELOPING SIMILAR TO YESTERDAY WITH HEAVIEST
CELLS OVER SIERRA AND S ACROSS MINERAL COUNTY. THETA-E RIDGE
SUPPORT STRONG TSTMS CONTINUING THIS EVE WITH FLASH FLOOD WATCH
OVER SRN CWA UNTIL 9 PM. HOPEFULLY ANY LIGHTNING CAUSED FIRES WILL
BE EXTINGUISHED QUICKLY BY HEAVY DOWNPOURS. DRYING A COOLING TREND
BEGINNING FRIDAY AS PAC TROUGH SAGS SWD ALONG W COAST WITH INCREASING
SWLY FLOW AND LOWERING HEIGHTS AND THICKNESS VALUES. LI CHARTS SHOW
ZERO LINE NEAR RENO AND WILL KEEP MENTION OF SLIGHT CHC OF TSTMS
OVER TAHOE AREA AND NE CALIFORNIA WITH RESIDUAL MOISTURE AND
INSTABILITY. FURTHERN DRYING AND COOLING SATURDAY AND SUNDAY. BY
MONDAY AND TUESDAY MED RANGE MODELS...EXCEPT FOR NOGAPS SHOWS
TROUGH AXIS AND VORT MAX MOVING SLOWING EWD OVER NRN NV. WILL KEEP
MENTION OF SLIGHT CHANCE OF TSTMS N OF HIGHWAY 50 MON AND TUESDAY
WITH DIFLUENT UPPER FLOW AHEAD OF VORT MAX. TYPICAL COOL AND BREEZY
FOR THE 4TH OF JULY. CYLKE
.REV...EASTERN CALIFORNIA...FLASH FLOOD WATCH UNTIL 9 PM CAZ071.
WESTERN NEVADA...FLASH FLOOD WATCH UNTIL 9 PM NVZ001 AND SRN
NVZ003.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, 2:11 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | REV | Douglas | 34 min |
| Jun 29, 3:58 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | REV | Washoe | 42 min |
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.