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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Las Vegas, NV

May 24, 2000Clark County, Nevada

NWS Las Vegas, NV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 2000, 4:31 PM PDT for Clark County, Nevada. It was in force for 44 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
May 24, 2000, 4:31 PM PDT (23:31 UTC)
Expired
May 24, 2000, 5:15 PM PDT
In force
44 min
Issued by
NWS Las Vegas, NV
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Clark County, NV

The nearest sounding before it

Mercury/Desert R, NV (KDRA), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 72 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, Mercury/Desert R, NV at 12:00Z on 2000-05-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 407 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Mercury/Desert R, NV at 12:00Z on 2000-05-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -40 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
407 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-315 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2656 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-40 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-23 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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The text

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

163 
WUUS55 KVEF 242337
SVRLAS
NVC003-250015-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV
431 PM PDT WED MAY 24 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAS VEGAS HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL CLARK COUNTY IN SOUTHERN NEVADA
  THIS INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...LAS VEGAS...GREEN
  VALLEY...HENDERSON...INDIAN SPRINGS...NORTH LAS VEGAS

* UNTIL 515 PM PDT

* THIS WARNING IS A CONTINUATION TO THE PREVIOUS SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM WARNING

* AT 435 PM PDT...DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUES TO INDICATE THUNDERSTORMS 
AROUND THE LAS VEGAS VALLEY DISSIPATING. THESE STORMS CONTINUE 
TO GENERATE STRONG AND GUSTY WINDS WHICH HAVE BEEN PRODUCING AREAS 
OF BLOWING DUST.

THE DECAYING THUNDERSTORMS HAVE HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING STRONG 
AND DAMAGING WINDS...BUT THERE WILL BE LITTLE RAIN. TAKE COVER IN 
A STURDY STRUCTURE UNTIL THE STORM PASSES.

LAT...LON 3574 11544 3587 11500 3638 11491 3681 11569
          3660 11584 3626 11542

NNNN

PIERCE

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 24, 3:25 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningVEFClark65 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Nevada, 2000Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2000

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.