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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 16, NWS Reno, NV
NWS Reno, NV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 5, 2000, 3:03 PM PDT for Lassen County, California. It was in force for 27 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
- Jul 5, 2000, 3:03 PM PDT (22:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 5, 2000, 3:30 PM PDT
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Reno, NV
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Lassen County, CA
The radar
The Medford radar (KMAX), 162 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:04 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
Medford/Jackson, OR (KMFR), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 189 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
- 25 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -13 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 637 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 9 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 32 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 052206 SVRRNO CAC035-052230- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RENO NV 303 PM PDT WED JUL 5 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RENO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... EXTREME NORTHWESTERN LASSEN COUNTY IN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...BIEBER...NUBIEBER...PITTVILLE... * UNTIL 330 PM PDT * AT 300 PM PDT...A WEATHER SERVICE SPOTTER REPORTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR PITTVILLE...OR ABOUT 6 MILES WEST OF NUBIEBER...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... 3 MILES NORTHWEST OF NUBIEBER AT 315 PM PDT 3 MILES NORTHWEST OF BIEBER AT 325 PM PDT HAIL UP TO 1 INCH IN DIAMETER HAS BEEN REPORTED WITH THIS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THE STORM...PUT YOUR CAR IN A GARAGE AND MOVE TO A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. 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 ENFORC:EMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN RENO. LAT...LON 4107 12146 4094 12129 4118 12093 4134 12114
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 Jul 5, 1:45 PM PDT, 1 hour 18 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 5, 1:45 PM PDT, 1 hour 18 minutes before
NORTHEAST CALIFORNIA AND WESTERN NEVADA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RENO NV
145 PM PDT WED JUL 5 2000
SHORTWAVE ACROSS NRN CAL CAUSING ISOLATED STORMS ACROSS NORTHEAST CA
THIS AFTN. WL INCLUDE ISOLD/SLGT CHC MENTION OF TSTMS THIS EVE FROM
TAHOE NORTHWARD AS SHORTWAVE EXITS TO THE NORTHEAST. ANOTHER SHORTWAVE
DIVES SOUTHWARD INTO TROUGH ALONG PACIFIC COAST THU INTO FRI THEN
MOVES INTO INLAND CAL BY LATE FRI. BELIEVE THIS WL BE ENUFF TO KICKUP
AFTN AND EVE WINDS ON FRI WITH ONLY A SLGT CHC OF TSTMS ACRS NERN CA
AND NWRN NV WHERE BEST INSTABILITY WL LIE. SHORTWAVE KICKS IN SATURDAY
INTO SUNDAY SPARKING THE CHC FOR AFTN AND EVE TSTMS ACRS THE FORECAST
AREA. TEMPS WL STAY BELOW NORMAL THRU THE WEEKEND. PACIFIC TROUGH
WEAKENS AND RIDGE WL RETROGRADE WESTWARD CAUSING DRY CONDS WITH TEMPS
BACK NEAR NORMAL BY MONDAY. 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.