Alert archive / Nevada / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 14, NWS Reno, NV
NWS Reno, NV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 12, 2001, 6:20 PM PDT for Lyon County, Storey County, Washoe 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 outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 12, 2001, 6:20 PM PDT (01:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 12, 2001, 6:45 PM PDT
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Reno, NV
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Lyon County, NV, Storey County, NV, Washoe County, NV
The nearest sounding before it
Reno, NV (KREV), launched 00:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 138 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 19 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -27 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2581 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 27 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 36 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
381 WUUS55 KREV 130123 SVRRNO NVC019-029-031-510-130145- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RENO NV 620 PM PDT WED SEP 12 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... EASTERN CARSON CITY IN WESTERN NEVADA THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF CARSON CITY EXTREME WEST CENTRAL LYON COUNTY IN WESTERN NEVADA SOUTHWESTERN STOREY COUNTY IN WESTERN NEVADA THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF VIRGINIA CITY EXTREME SOUTH CENTRAL WASHOE COUNTY IN WESTERN NEVADA * UNTIL 645 PM PDT * AT 609 PM PDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER CARSON CITY...OR ABOUT 3 MILES EAST OF CARSON CITY...MOVING NORTH AT 10-15 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... 6 MILES WEST OF VIRGINIA CITY AT 625 PM PDT OVER NEW WASHOE CITY AT 630 PM PDT LARGE HAIL TO ONE INCH IS POSSIBLE WITH THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THE STORM...PUT YOUR CAR IN A GARAGE AND MOVE TO A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. HEAVY RAINS MAY FLOOD LOW LYING AREAS SUCH AS DITCHES AND UNDERPASSES. AVOID THESE AREAS AND DO NOT CROSS FLOODED ROADS AS THEY MAY BE WASHED OUT. WATER LEVELS OF SMALL STREAMS AND RIVERS MAY ALSO RISE...THEREFORE SEEK HIGHER GROUND IF THREATENED BY FLOOD WATERS. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...LARGE HAIL...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER...PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT AWAY FROM WINDOWS. REPORT DAMAGING WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE. LAT...LON 3910 11979 3910 11958 3936 11960 3934 11989
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Reno, NV wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Sep 12, 3:30 PM PDT, 2 hours 50 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 12, 3:30 PM PDT, 2 hours 50 minutes before
WESTERN NEVADA AND EASTERN CALIFORNIA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RENO NV 330 PM PDT WED SEP 12 2001 UPPER LEVEL LOW AND VORT MAX MOVG ACROSS CENTRAL CA THIS AFTN WITH SHOWERS AND TSTMS OVER MUCH OF SIERRA AND WRN NV N OF HIGHWAY 50. CELLS OVER PERSHING AND CHURCHILL COUNTIES MOVG AROUND 30 MPH FROM S WITH ALOT OF SHEAR INDUCED MESOS AND CIRCS DETECTED WITH TSTMS. CELLS OVER SIERRA FM TAHOE N MOVG FM S AT 10-15 MPH BEING CLOSER TO UPPER LOW CIRCULATION. MM5 SHOWING QPF OVER NRN WASHOE AND LASSEN OVERNIGHT AND INTO THURSDAY. WILL HOLD ONTO CHC POPS OVER CAZ071 AND NVZ005 IN NRN CWA FOR THURSDAY. A LITTLE DRIER AND MORE STABLE FRIDAY THEN DESTABLIZG AGAIN SATURDAY WITH APPROACHING S/WV FM OFF NRN CA CST. WILL MENTION SLGT CHC OF AFTN SHWRS/TSTMS IN FAR NRN CWA SAT AND SUN THEN DRY MON-WED UNDER ZONAL FLOW PATTERN. TEMPS REMAINING NEAR SEASONAL NORMALS THRU PD. CYLKE .REV...NONE.
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.