Alert archive / Nevada / Flash Flood Warnings in 2004
Flash Flood Warning 13, NWS Reno, NV
NWS Reno, NV issued this flash flood warning at Aug 15, 2004, 5:03 PM PDT. It was in force for 87 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 15, 2004, 5:03 PM PDT (00:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 15, 2004, 6:30 PM PDT
- In force
- 87 min
- Issued by
- NWS Reno, NV
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
The radar
The Reno radar (KRGX), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:05 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 146 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
- 19 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -110 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2159 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -89 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -55 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS55 KREV 160007 FFWREV NVC510-160130- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RENO NV 503 PM PDT SUN AUG 15 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RENO HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... CENTRAL CARSON CITY IN WESTERN NEVADA THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF CARSON CITY * UNTIL 630 PM PDT * AT 500 PM PDT...FLASH FLOODING WAS REPORTED FROM A THUNDERSTORM OVER THE WATERFALL BURN AREA AND CARSON CITY. * THE STORM PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING WILL OTHERWISE REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF THE INDICATED COUNTY. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...HIGHWAYS AND UNDERPASSES. ADDITIONALLY...COUNTRY ROADS AND FARMLANDS ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS...STREAMS AND OTHER LOW LYING AREAS ARE SUBJECT TO FLOODING. FLASH FLOODING MAY BRING A RIVER OF MUD...ROCKS...BURNED TREES AND ASH INTO WESTERN CARSON CITY. PEOPLE ARE URGED TO STAY AWAY FROM VICEE...ASH AND KINGS CANYONS. IF YOU ARE IN WESTERN CARSON CITY OR NEAR THESE CANYONS SEEK HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY. FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL ONE...ON FOOT. TO ESCAPE RISING WATER MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND. LAT...LON 3912 11978 3919 11978 3920 11983 3912 11989 $$ RM
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS75 KREV 160130 FFSREV NVC510-160130- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RENO NV 625 PM PDT SUN AUG 15 2004 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR CENTRAL CARSON CITY COUNTY WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE AT 630 PM PDT... AT 625 PM PDT...THE THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING IN THE WATERFALL BURN AREA AND DOWNSTREAM INTO CARSON CITY HAS WEAKENED. LIGHT TO OCCASIONAL MODERATE RAIN SHOWERS ARE STILL LIKELY IN THE AREA FOR THE NEXT ONE TO TWO HOURS. LOCALIZED FLOODING AND MUDSLIDES HAVE BEEN REPORTED ACROSS PORTIONS OF CARSON CITY ASSOCIATED WITH THIS STORM. FLOODING CONDITIONS MAY STILL BE IMMINENT IF ADDITIONAL SHOWERS OR THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOP OVER THIS SAME AREA. MOTORISTS AND PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD CONTINUE TO MONITOR THE WEATHER FOR POSSIBLE RAPIDLY CHANGING CONDITIONS. LAT...LON 3912 11978 3919 11978 3920 11983 3912 11989 $$ BENINATO
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.