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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS Las Vegas, NV

August 1, 2000Mohave County, Arizona

NWS Las Vegas, NV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 1, 2000, 3:00 PM MST for Mohave County, Arizona. It was in force for 60 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 1, 2000, 3:00 PM MST (22:00 UTC)
Expired: Aug 1, 2000, 4:00 PM MST
In force: 60 min
Issued by: NWS Las Vegas, NV
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Mohave County, AZ

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Aug 1, 2:30 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Flgstf/Belemont, AZ (KFGZ), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 206 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 188 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -140 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2208 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -14 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 31 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 KVEF 012213 COR
SVRLAS
AZC015-012300-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV
300 PM MST TUE AUG 1 2000

...CORRECTED FOR EXPIRATION CODE...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAS VEGAS HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL MOHAVE COUNTY IN NORTHWEST ARIZONA
  THIS INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
    CHLORIDE
    DOLAN SPRINGS

* UNTIL 400 PM MST

* AT 305 PM MST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS 14 MILES EAST OF CHLORIDE...AND 17 MILES
  EAST OF DOLAN SPRINGS...MOVING WEST AT 15-20 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE...
  NEAR CHLORIDE BETWEEN 330 AT 345 PM MST
  NEAR DOLAN SPRINGS BETWEEN 345 AND 400 PM MST

STRONG AND DAMAGING WINDS ARE LIKELY IN ADVANCE OF THIS STORM. HAIL 
UP TO ONE INCH IN DIAMETER AND BRIEF HEAVY RAIN ARE ALSO POSSIBLE.
TAKE COVER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE UNTIL THE STORM PASSES.

REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY
WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST
OFFICE IN LAS VEGAS.

LAT...LON 3542 11379 3581 11388 3578 11439 3531 11432

NNNN

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 31, 6:46 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	VEF	Mohave	59 min
Jul 31, 7:44 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	VEF	Mohave	46 min
Aug 1, 3:25 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	VEF	Mohave	65 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.