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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Las Vegas, NV

July 2, 2001Nye County, Nevada

NWS Las Vegas, NV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 2, 2001, 5:23 PM PDT for Nye County, Nevada. It was in force for 52 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: Jul 2, 2001, 5:23 PM PDT (00:23 UTC)
Expired: Jul 2, 2001, 6:15 PM PDT
In force: 52 min
Issued by: NWS Las Vegas, NV
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Nye County, NV

The nearest sounding before it

Mercury/Desert R, NV (KDRA), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 39 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: 3122 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -4 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 3323 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 46 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 72 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 030024
SVRLAS

NVC023-030115-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV
523 PM PDT MON JUL 2 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAS VEGAS HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN NYE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEVADA
  THIS INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...PAHRUMP

* UNTIL 615 PM PDT

* AT 523 PM PDT...SKYWARN WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A DOWNBURST 
ASSOCIATED WITH A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES NORTHEAST OF PAHRUMP. 
WINDS AS HIGH AS 62 MPH HAVE BEEN REPORTED WITH THIS STORM ALONG 
WITH VISIBILITIES TO NEAR ZERO IN BLOWING DUST ON THE EAST SIDE OF 
PAHRUMP.

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

LAT...LON 3619 11606 3619 11589 3639 11590 3639 11610

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 3, 4:31 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	VEF	Clark	59 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Nevada, 2001 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2001

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.