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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 6, NWS Reno, NV

June 23, 2000Alpine County, Mono County, California; Douglas County, Nevada

NWS Reno, NV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 23, 2000, 5:02 PM PDT for Alpine County, Mono County, California; 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
Jun 23, 2000, 5:02 PM PDT (00:02 UTC)
Expired
Jun 23, 2000, 5:30 PM PDT
In force
28 min
Issued by
NWS Reno, NV
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Alpine County, CA, Mono County, CA, Douglas County, NV

The radar

The Reno radar (KRGX), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:03 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, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 153 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 2000-06-24Temperature 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 km15 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 2000-06-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 4 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
3677 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
58 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.

000 
WUUS55 KREV 240006
SVRRNO
CAC003-051-NVC005-240030-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RENO NV
502 PM PDT FRI JUN 23 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RENO HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN ALPINE COUNTY IN CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
  EXTREME NORTHWESTERN MONO COUNTY IN CENTRAL CALIFORNIA THIS 
  INCLUDES THE HOLBROOK JUNCTION AREA 
  SOUTHERN DOUGLAS COUNTY IN WESTERN NEVADA

* UNTIL 530 PM PDT

* AT 505 PM PDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES NORTH OF TOPAZ LAKE...MOVING NORTHWEST
  AT 15 MPH.

* THE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR HOLBROOK JUNCTION AROUND 515 PM.

HAIL AND HEAVY RAIN IS LIKELY WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM. 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 3862 11956 3878 11944 3891 11969 3878 11981

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 23, 5:35 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningREVAlpine, El Dorado25 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.