Alert archive / Nevada / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 25, NWS Reno, NV
NWS Reno, NV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 3, 2000, 3:30 PM PDT for Washoe County, Nevada. It was in force for 45 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, 3:30 PM PDT (22:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 3, 2000, 4:15 PM PDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Reno, NV
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Washoe County, NV
The radar
The Reno radar (KRGX), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:30 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, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 170 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 032232 SVRRNO CAC017-061-NVC005-031-510-032315- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RENO NV 330 PM PDT THU AUG 3 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RENO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... EXTREME NORTHEASTERN EL DORADO COUNTY IN CENTRAL CALIFORNIA THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...HEAVENLY VALLEY...SOUTH LAKE TAHOE EAST CENTRAL PLACER COUNTY IN CENTRAL CALIFORNIA THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...KINGS BEACH...TAHOE CITY WEST CENTRAL CARSON CITY IN WESTERN NEVADA EXTREME NORTHWESTERN DOUGLAS COUNTY IN WESTERN NEVADA EXTREME SOUTHWESTERN WASHOE COUNTY IN WESTERN NEVADA * UNTIL 415 PM PDT * AT 325 PM PDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR BLISS STATE PARK...OR ABOUT 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF SOUTH LAKE TAHOE...MOVING NORTH AT 10 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... 5 MILES EAST OF SUGAR PINE POINT STATE PARK AT 345 PM PDT 5 MILES WEST OF GLENBROOK AT 350 PM PDT 7 MILES WEST OF SPOONER SUMMIT AT 355 PM PDT 6 MILES EAST OF TAHOE CITY AT 410 PM PDT 4 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CRYSTAL BAY...4 MILES SOUTHEAST OF CARNELIAN BAY...4 MILES SOUTH OF KINGS BEACH AT 415 PM PDT HAIL UP TO 3/4 INCHES IN DIAMETER AND VERY HEAVY RAIN HAS BEEN REPORTED WITH THIS STORM. SEVERAL REPORTS OF 1/2 INCH HAIL HAVE ALSO BEEN RECEIVED. WATERSPOUTS OVER LAKE TAHOE ARE ALSO POSSIBLE. 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 3892 12015 3892 11992 3923 11988 3924 12017
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 3, 2:35 PM PDT, 55 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 3, 2:35 PM PDT, 55 minutes before
NORTHEAST CALIFORNIA AND WESTERN NEVADA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RENO NV
235 PM PDT THU AUG 3 2000
WEAK PERTURBATIONS MOVING NORTHWARD AROUND RIDGE WILL CONTINUE TO
PRODUCE THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY THROUGH THE EVENING HOURS. A TROUGH
APPROACHING THE PACIFIC COAST WILL CAUSE A TIGHTENING SOUTHWEST
GRADIENT WHICH WILL BRING IN DRIER AND MORE STABLE AIRMASS FOR FRIDAY
INTO SATURDAY OVER THE FORECAST AREA. 12Z AVN SHOWS A WEAK SHORTWAVE
MOVING THROUGH THE SOUTHWEST FLOW INTO NRN CA BY SATURDAY AFTN. SO WL
KEEP SLIGHT CHC MENTION ACRS XTRME NRN PTN OF FORECAST AREA FOR
SATURDAY. DO EXPECT SLIGHT COOLING TO ACCOMPANY THE WEAK SHORTWAVE.
SOUTHWEST FLOW WILL CONTINUE THE DRY CONDITIONS THROUGH MONDAY. BY
TUESDAY...MOIST SOUTHERLY FLOW RETURNS INTO SRN AND ERN PTNS OF
FORECAST AREA WITH TEMPS INCREASING BACK TO ABOVE NORMAL READINGS.
ADAMS
.REV...EASTERN CALIFORNIA...NONE.
WESTERN NEVADA...SEVERE TSTM WATCH FOR PERSHING COUNTY
NVZ004 TIL 6PM.The office that day
Everything else NWS Reno, NV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 3, 2:02 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | REV | Douglas | 28 min |
| 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, 3:55 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 |
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.