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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Reno, NV

September 12, 2001Pershing County, Nevada

NWS Reno, NV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 12, 2001, 1:50 PM PDT for Pershing County, Nevada. It was in force for 25 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Sep 12, 2001, 1:50 PM PDT (20:50 UTC)
Expired
Sep 12, 2001, 2:15 PM PDT
In force
25 min
Issued by
NWS Reno, NV
Area
Whole counties

County Pershing County, NV

The nearest sounding before it

Reno, NV (KREV), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 98 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 12:00Z on 2001-09-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 50 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, Reno, NV at 12:00Z on 2001-09-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 42 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
50 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-218 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1943 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
55 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
42 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
162 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.

052 
WUUS55 KREV 122051
SVRRNO
NVC027-122115-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RENO NV
150 PM PDT WED SEP 12 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN PERSHING COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL NEVADA

* UNTIL 215 PM PDT

* AT 150 PM PDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER NORTHEASTERN CHURCHILL COUNTY...OR ABOUT
  33 MILES NORTHWEST OF NEW PASS SUMMIT...MOVING NORTH AT 45 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE ACROSS RURAL SOUTHEASTERN        
  PERSHING COUNTY

EXPECT LARGE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH WITH THIS STORM.

REPORT DAMAGING WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY
WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST
OFFICE.

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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.