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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Reno, NV
NWS Reno, NV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 3, 2000, 2:02 PM PDT for Douglas 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 3, 2000, 2:02 PM PDT (21:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 3, 2000, 2:30 PM PDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Reno, NV
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Douglas County, NV
The radar
The Reno radar (KRGX), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:16 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, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 148 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
- 64 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -237 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2445 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 15 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 7 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 032104 SVRRNO NVC005-510-032130- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RENO NV 202 PM PDT THU AUG 3 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RENO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CENTRAL CARSON CITY IN WESTERN NEVADA THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF CARSON CITY NORTHWESTERN DOUGLAS COUNTY IN WESTERN NEVADA THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF MINDEN AND GENOA * UNTIL 230 PM PDT * AT 201 PM PDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER GENOA...OR ABOUT 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF GARDNERVILLE. THE STORM WAS NEARLY STATIONARY. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF GARDNERVILLE...5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF JOHNSON LANE...6 MILES SOUTH OF INDIAN HILLS AT 230 PM PDT VERY LARGE HAIL IS POSSIBLE WITH THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM. 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 ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN RENO. LAT...LON 3915 11990 3889 11991 3887 11961 3919 11959
The office that day
Everything else NWS Reno, NV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 3, 2:56 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | REV | Douglas | 34 min |
| Aug 3, 3:30 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | REV | Douglas | 45 min |
| Aug 3, 3:30 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | REV | Washoe | 45 min |
| Aug 3, 3:55 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | REV | Churchill, Pershing, Washoe | 65 min |
| Aug 3, 3:55 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | REV | Lyon | 65 min |
| Aug 3, 4:38 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | REV | Douglas | 37 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.