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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Reno, NV

July 13, 2002Washoe County, Nevada

NWS Reno, NV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 13, 2002, 5:15 PM PDT for Washoe County, Nevada. It was in force for 30 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
Jul 13, 2002, 5:15 PM PDT (00:15 UTC)
Expired
Jul 13, 2002, 5:45 PM PDT
In force
30 min
Issued by
NWS Reno, NV
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Washoe County, NV

The radar

The Reno radar (KRGX), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:18 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jul 13, 5:15 PM PDTThunderstorm Wind 51 MReno Cannon Intl Arp, NV
Jul 13, 5:15 PM PDTThunderstorm Wind 56 EReno, NV

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

The nearest sounding before it

Reno, NV (KREV), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 142 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 00:00Z on 2002-07-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 133 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 00:00Z on 2002-07-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 70 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
133 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-128 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
3127 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
70 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
35 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

006 
WUUS55 KREV 140015
SVRREV
NVC031-140045-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RENO NV
515 PM PDT SAT JUL 13 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTH CENTRAL WASHOE COUNTY IN WESTERN NEVADA
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF RENO

* UNTIL 545 PM PDT

* AT 512 PM PDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER NEW WASHOE CITY...OR ABOUT 7 MILES WEST OF
  VIRGINIA CITY...MOVING NORTH AT 10 MPH.

THE STORM WAS PRODUCING STRONG WIND GUSTS OVER 58 MPH IN THE RENO 
AREA...AS WELL AS AREAS OF BLOWING DUST.  

IF SEVERE WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA...GO INSIDE A STURDY SHELTER
AWAY FROM CREEK BEDS AND OTHER FLOOD-PRONE AREAS. REMEMBER...A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM CAN PRODUCE LARGE DAMAGING HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS IN
EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.

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

LAT...LON 3921 11991 3923 11970 3959 11967 3958 11996

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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.