Alert archive / Nevada / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 19, NWS Reno, NV
NWS Reno, NV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 1, 2000, 5:32 PM PDT for Storey County, Washoe County, Nevada. It was in force for 28 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
- Aug 1, 2000, 5:32 PM PDT (00:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 1, 2000, 6:00 PM PDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Reno, NV
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Storey County, NV, Washoe County, NV
The nearest sounding before it
Reno, NV (KREV), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 119 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
- 92 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -62 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3821 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -9 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 83 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
396 WUUS55 KREV 020032 SVRRNO NVC029-031-020100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RENO NV 532 PM PDT TUE AUG 1 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RENO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... STOREY COUNTY IN WESTERN NEVADA EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN WASHOE COUNTY IN WESTERN NEVADA * UNTIL 600 PM PDT * AT 526 PM PDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES SOUTHEAST OF LOCKWOOD...OR ABOUT 9 MILES NORTHEAST OF VIRGINIA CITY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... RURAL STOREY COUNTY AND LOCKWOOD AT 550 PM STRONG AND DAMAGING WINDS ARE LIKELY FROM THIS STORM...BUT THERE WILL BE LITTLE RAIN. TAKE COVER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE UNTIL THE STORM PASSES. 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 3944 11968 3932 11952 3963 11935 3961 11966
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 Aug 1, 3:00 PM PDT, 2 hours 32 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 1, 3:00 PM PDT, 2 hours 32 minutes before
NORTHEAST CALIFORNIA AND WESTERN NEVADA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RENO NV
300 PM PDT TUE AUG 1 2000
CONVECTION WAS DELAYED OVER WESTERN NV BY EARLY CLOUDY COVER.
THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED MAINLY OVER THE HIGHER TERRAIN THIS
AFTERNOON TO THE SOUTH AND SPREADING NORTH. HIGHER PRECIPITABLE
WATER SUGGESTS LOCAL HEAVY SHOWERS AND POSSIBLE HAIL OVER THE
SIERRA THIS AFTERNOON. CONVECTIVE DEBRIS CLEARS SLOWLY OVERNIGHT.
WITH SOUTHERLY FLOW OVER ALL OF WRN NV WEDNESDAY...THE AIRMASS IS
UNSTABLE WITH A LITTLE HIGH RH FOR MAINLY SCATTERED WET SHOWERS
AND THUNDERSTORMS. BY THURSDAY A TROUGH APPROACHES THE PACIFIC
NORTHWEST WHICH BRINGS SOUTHWEST WINDS TO NRN CA AND NW NEVADA.
THUS A CHANCE OF DIURNAL THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD END A LITTLE EARLIER
IN THE EVENING NORTHWEST NEVADA WHILE PROVIDING SOME CONVERGENCE
FOCUS FURTHER EAST OVER WRN NEVADA. TEMPERATURES ARE HELD A LITTLE
BELOW AIRMASS POTENTIAL BY AFTERNOON CLOUDS AND LOCAL SHOWERS.
OVER THE 3-5 DAY PERIOD A DRIER SW FLOW DEVELOPS WITH A TROUGH NEAR
THE WEST COAST. THE RISK OF THUNDERSTORMS GRADUALLY SHIFTS EAST AND
THE AREA SHOULD BE ENTIRELY DRY BUT BREEZY AND A LITTLE COOLER BY
SUNDAY. OSTERMAN.
.REV...EASTERN CALIFORNIA...NONE.
WESTERN NEVADA...NONE.The office that day
Everything else NWS Reno, NV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2, 3:25 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | REV | Lyon, Storey, Washoe | 35 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.