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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Reno, NV

August 4, 2003Washoe County, Nevada

NWS Reno, NV issued this tornado warning at Aug 4, 2003, 6:28 PM PDT for Washoe County, Nevada. It was in force for 32 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Aug 4, 2003, 6:28 PM PDT (01:28 UTC)
Expired
Aug 4, 2003, 7:00 PM PDT
In force
32 min
Issued by
NWS Reno, NV
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Washoe County, NV

The nearest sounding before it

Reno, NV (KREV), launched 00:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 147 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 2003-08-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 203 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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 2003-08-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -19 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
203 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-6 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2924 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-19 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
112 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.4

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The text

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

023 
WFUS55 KREV 050128
TORREV
NVC031-050200-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RENO NV
627 PM PDT MON AUG 4 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL WASHOE COUNTY IN WESTERN NEVADA

* UNTIL 700 PM PDT

* AT 625 PM PDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO OVER SOUTH CENTRAL WASHOE COUNTY...OR ABOUT 18 MILES EAST
  OF CHILCOOT...MOVING NORTHWEST AT 15 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
RURAL SOUTHWESTERN WASHOE COUNTY AT 640 PM PDT

IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER 
LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.

LAT...LON 4014 11993 4005 11985 3995 11973 3988 11965
          3975 11982 3996 11993

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 4, 6:02 PM PDTFlash Flood WarningREVWashoe58 min

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.