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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Reno, NV

June 17, 2000Churchill County, Nevada

NWS Reno, NV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 17, 2000, 5:40 PM PDT for Churchill 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
Jun 17, 2000, 5:40 PM PDT (00:40 UTC)
Expired
Jun 17, 2000, 6:15 PM PDT
In force
35 min
Issued by
NWS Reno, NV
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Churchill County, NV

The radar

The Reno radar (KRGX), 41 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:39 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 00:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 109 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Reno, NV at 00:00Z on 2000-06-18Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Reno, NV at 00:00Z on 2000-06-18The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -29 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
3586 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-29 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
49 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

250 
WUUS55 KREV 180044
SVRRNO
NVC001-019-029-180115-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RENO NV
540 PM PDT SAT JUN 17 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RENO HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  EXTREME WEST CENTRAL CHURCHILL COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL NEVADA
  NORTHWESTERN LYON COUNTY IN WESTERN NEVADA
  STOREY COUNTY IN WESTERN NEVADA

* UNTIL 615 PM PDT

* AT 530 PM PDT...DOPPLER RADAR REPORTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 
8 MILES  WEST OF STAGECOACH...OR NEAR DAYTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 
20 MPH. A WEATHER SPOTTER IN THE TOWN OF DAYTON REPORTED MARBLE
SIZE HAIL AROUND 530 PM.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  4 MILES NORTHWEST OF STAGECOACH AT 555 PM PDT
  9 MILES NORTHWEST OF SILVER SPRINGS AT 610 PM PDT

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 3934 11967 3922 11950 3941 11904 3962 11935

The office that day

Everything else NWS Reno, NV issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 17, 5:40 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningREVLyon, Storey35 min
Jun 17, 6:14 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningREVLyon, Storey31 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.