Alert archive / Nevada / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 1, NWS Reno, NV
NWS Reno, NV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 18, 2003, 5:55 PM PDT for Mineral County, Nevada. It was in force for 35 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
- Jun 18, 2003, 5:55 PM PDT (00:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 18, 2003, 6:30 PM PDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Reno, NV
- Area
- Whole counties
County Mineral County, NV
The nearest sounding before it
Reno, NV (KREV), launched 00:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 116 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 4320 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 15 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 40 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
126 WUUS55 KREV 190055 SVRREV NVC021-190130- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RENO NV 554 PM PDT WED JUN 18 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CENTRAL MINERAL COUNTY IN WESTERN NEVADA * UNTIL 630 PM PDT * AT 547 PM PDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES SOUTH OF HAWTHORNE...OR ABOUT 26 MILES NORTHEAST OF BODIE...MOVING NORTH AT 15 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE... OVER HAWTHORNE AT 610 PM PDT STRONG AND DAMAGING WINDS ARE LIKELY FROM THIS STORM...BUT THERE WILL BE LITTLE RAIN. TAKE COVER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE UNTIL THE STORM PASSES. REPORT DAMAGING WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE. $$ LAT...LON 3833 11869 3837 11847 3871 11855 3865 11883
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 Jun 18, 2:30 PM PDT, 3 hours 25 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 18, 2:30 PM PDT, 3 hours 25 minutes before
WESTERN NEVADA AND EASTERN CALIFORNIA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RENO NV 230 PM PDT WED JUN 18 2003 CONVECTION CURRENTLY FIRING OVER NORTHWESTERN NEVADA. MOVEMENT OF THESE PULSE STORMS IS TO THE NORTH. CONVECTION SHOULD CONTINUE INTO THE EVENING GENERALLY EAST OF THE SIERRA. MODELS INITIALIZED WELL SHOWING THE UPPER TROUGH JUST OFF THE WEST COAST AT 12Z. GFS...ECMWF AND NOGAPS ALL SHOW THE TROUGH DEEPENING AND STARTING TO CUT OFF AS IT COMES ASHORE BY 12Z THURSDAY. THE THERMAL TROUGH MOVES TO THE EASTERN GREAT BASIN ON THURSDAY AND THEN IS WELL SOUTH AND EAST OF THE KREV CWFA FRIDAY AND SATURDAY. BY 00Z FRIDAY THE GFS ACTUALLY SHOWS A CUT OFF LOW OVER SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA WITH THE ECMWF SHOWING THE SAME THING 12 HOURS LATER AS THE GFS CIRCULATION IS OPENING BACK UP. THE GFS...EURO AND NOGAPS ARE REMARKABLY SIMILAR AT 12Z FRIDAY WITH THE UPPER TROUGH STILL EXTENDING FROM THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST SOUTH ALONG THE SIERRA CREST. BY 12Z SATURDAY THE MODELS ARE SHOWING A WEAKENING TROUGH BECOMING NEGATIVELY TILTED ALONG THE WESTERN ROCKIES. WITH THERMAL TROUGH STILL IN THE VICINITY ON THURSDAY WILL CONTINUE WITH MENTION OF AFTN AND EVENING THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHERN AND EASTERN ZONES. GREATEST INSTABILITY IS NORTHEAST OF KREV CWFA ON FRIDAY. THERMAL TROUGH IS ALSO EAST SO HAVE TAKEN TSRA OUT OF FORECAST. RESULT IS FRIDAY AND SATURDAY ARE DRY WITH TEMPERATURES BACK DOWN TO NEAR NORMAL READINGS. OHARA IN THE EXTENDED...SUNDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY... DRY BREEZY AND MILD SUNDAY WITH A BROAD UPPER TROUGH OVER NRN NV AND THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST. CONTINUED DRY BUT A FEW DEGREES WARMER TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY AS THE TROUGH OVER NV WEAKENS. COREY .REV...NONE.
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 18, 5:40 AM PDT, 12 hours 15 minutes before
CAZ070>073-NVZ001>005-191400- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RENO NV 540 AM PDT WED JUN 18 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN NEVADA...THE EASTERN SIERRA AND NORTHEASTERN CALIFORNIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER CONDITIONS TO THEIR LOCAL NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jun 18, 4:06 PM PDT, 1 hour 49 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RENO NV
0406 PM PDT WED JUN 18 2003
TIME(PDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0358 PM 10 E BIEBER CA 0.75 IN HAIL
06/18/03 LASSEN
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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.