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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 3, NWS Las Vegas, NV

May 24, 2000Clark County, Nevada

NWS Las Vegas, NV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 2000, 5:24 PM PDT for Clark County, Nevada. It was in force for 36 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, 5:24 PM PDT (00:24 UTC)
Expired
May 24, 2000, 6:00 PM PDT
In force
36 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 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 86 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 00:00Z on 2000-05-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 499 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 2000-05-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -14 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
499 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-79 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
3325 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
4 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-14 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-6 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.

934 
WUUS55 KVEF 250027 COR
SVRLAS
NVC003-250100-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV
524 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...NORTH LAS VEGAS

* UNTIL 600 PM PDT

* THIS A CONTINUATION OF THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING

* AT 515 PM PDT...THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO DEVELOP AND DISSIPATE AROUND
THE LAS VEGAS CREATING STRONG AND GUSTY WINDS THAT HAVE BEEN 
VARIABLE IN DIRECTION. THE WINDS HAVE CREATED AREAS OF BLOWING DUST 
REDUCING VISIBILITIES TO A HALF MILE OR LESS AT TIMES.

AT 506 PM PDT...MCCARRAN INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT REPORTED A GUST TO 63 
MPH. AT 458 PM PDT...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE OBSERVED A 
WIND GUST TO 66 MPH.

STRONG AND DAMAGING WINDS ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM...BUT THERE WILL
BE LITTLE RAIN. TAKE COVER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE UNTIL THE STORM
PASSES.

LAT...LON 3591 11540 3593 11503 3643 11493 3647 11552

NNNN

PIERCE

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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.