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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 8, NWS Reno, NV

July 13, 2002Lyon County, Storey County, Washoe County, Nevada

NWS Reno, NV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 13, 2002, 1:54 PM PDT for Lyon County, Storey County, Washoe County, Nevada. It was in force for 51 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: Jul 13, 2002, 1:54 PM PDT (20:54 UTC)
Expired: Jul 13, 2002, 2:45 PM PDT
In force: 51 min
Issued by: NWS Reno, NV
Area: Whole counties

Counties Lyon County, NV, Storey County, NV, Washoe County, NV

The radar

The Reno radar (KRGX), 5 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:56 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Reno, NV (KREV), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 109 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 2722 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -38 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 70 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.

325 
WUUS55 KREV 132054
SVRREV
NVC019-029-031-132145-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHWESTERN LYON COUNTY IN WESTERN NEVADA
  EASTERN STOREY COUNTY IN WESTERN NEVADA
  SOUTHEASTERN WASHOE COUNTY IN WESTERN NEVADA

* UNTIL 245 PM PDT

* AT 151 PM PDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES SOUTHEAST OF DAYTON...OR ABOUT 11 MILES
  SOUTHEAST OF VIRGINIA CITY...MOVING NORTH AT 25 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  4 MILES WEST OF STAGECOACH AT 220 PM PDT

HAIL...INTENSE RAIN AND STRONG DAMAGING WINDS ARE LIKELY WITH THIS
STORM. TAKE COVER IN A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER UNTIL THE STORM PASSES.

LOCALIZED FLOODING IS ALSO POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.

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

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 13, 3:03 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	REV	Washoe	27 min
Jul 13, 3:28 PM PDT	Flash Flood Warning	REV	Douglas, Lyon, Storey, Washoe	2 hr
Jul 13, 4:06 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	REV	Douglas	39 min
Jul 13, 4:37 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	REV	Pershing, Washoe	38 min
Jul 13, 4:45 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	REV	Douglas, Washoe	45 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Nevada, 2002 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2002

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.