Alert archive / Nevada / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 20, NWS Reno, NV
NWS Reno, NV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 2, 2000, 3:25 PM PDT for Lyon County, Storey County, Washoe County, Nevada. It was in force for 35 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 2, 2000, 3:25 PM PDT (22:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 2, 2000, 4:00 PM PDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Reno, NV
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Lyon County, NV, Storey County, NV, Washoe County, NV
The nearest sounding before it
Reno, NV (KREV), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 107 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
- 3450 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 23 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 23 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
525 WUUS55 KREV 022226 SVRRNO NVC019-029-031-022300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RENO NV 325 PM PDT WED AUG 2 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RENO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHWESTERN LYON COUNTY IN WESTERN NEVADA THIS INCLUDES THE TOWNS OF STAGECOACH AND FERNLEY STOREY COUNTY IN WESTERN NEVADA THIS INCLUDES THE TOWN OF VIRGINIA CITY SOUTHEASTERN WASHOE COUNTY IN WESTERN NEVADA * UNTIL 400 PM PDT * AT 318 PM PDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF STAGECOACH...OR ABOUT 13 MILES NORTHEAST OF VIRGINIA CITY...SHOWING LITTLE MOVEMENT. 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 3929 11966 3937 11912 3965 11915 3965 11961
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 2, 3:00 PM PDT, 25 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 2, 3:00 PM PDT, 25 minutes before
NORTHEAST CALIFORNIA AND WESTERN NEVADA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RENO NV
300 PM PDT WED AUG 2 2000
A WEAK UPPER VORTICITY MAXIMUM IS MOVING NORTH OVER MONO COUNTY THIS
AFTERNOON WITH SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING NORTH OVER THE
SIERRA AND WEST CENTRAL NEVADA. PRECIPITATION HAS BEEN LIGHT SO FAR
BUT LOCAL HEAVY SHOWERS AND DOWN BURST WINDS ARE POSSIBLE THROUGH AT
LEAST EARLY THIS EVENING IN ADVANCE OF THIS FEATURE. THE BEST FOCUS
FOR THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING IS IN THE SURFACE TROUGH
ACROSS CENTRAL NV WITH STORMS DECREASING AS THEY MOVE FURTHER NORTH
INTO NRN NV LATER THIS EVENING. PARTIAL CLEARING OVERNIGHT AS THE
CONVECTIVE DEBRIS SLOWLY DISSIPATES. SOUTHWEST FLOW ALOFT BRINGS A
LITTLE MORE STABLE AIR TO NE CA THURSDAY WHILE WRN NV REMAINS MOIST
AND UNSTABLE WITH SCATTERED DIURNAL THUNDERSTORMS. BY FRIDAY...AN
INCREASING SOUTHWEST FLOW ALOFT TAPS LOWER LEVEL MOISTURE OFF THE W
COAST. THIS AND A WEAK UPPER SHORT WAVE APPROACHING NRN CA BRINGS
A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS TO NE CA FRIDAY. LOWER LIFTED INDICES
SHIFT TO WEST CENTRAL AND NW NV WHILE THE SOUTHWEST FLOW DRIES THE
CENTRAL SIERRA.
OVER THE 3-5 DAY PERIOD AN UPPER LOW SETTLES SOUTH OFF CA BETWEEN A
HIGH 145W AND THE BROAD U.S. RIDGE TO THE EAST OF THE AREA. THIS
BRINGS A DRIER AND COOLER SOUTHWEST FLOW TO WRN NV. 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 1, 5:32 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | REV | Storey, Washoe | 28 min |
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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.