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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Reno, NV

July 6, 2004Mono County, California

NWS Reno, NV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 6, 2004, 3:01 PM PDT for Mono County, California. It was in force for 29 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
Jul 6, 2004, 3:01 PM PDT (22:01 UTC)
Expired
Jul 6, 2004, 3:30 PM PDT
In force
29 min
Issued by
NWS Reno, NV
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Mono County, CA

The radar

The Reno radar (KRGX), 161 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:05 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Reno, NV (KREV), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 181 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 12:00Z on 2004-07-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 88 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 12:00Z on 2004-07-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -9 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
88 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-308 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2339 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-9 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
57 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.

000 
WUUS55 KREV 062201
SVRREV
CAC051-062230-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RENO NV
300 PM PDT TUE JUL 6 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RENO HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHWESTERN MONO COUNTY IN CENTRAL CALIFORNIA

* UNTIL 330 PM PDT

* AT 255 PM PDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING NICKEL SIZE HAIL.  THIS
  STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR LEAVITT MEADOWS...OR ABOUT 14 MILES
  NORTHWEST OF TWIN LAKES. THIS STORM WAS NEARLY STATIONARY.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  RURAL NORTHWESTERN MONO COUNTY AT 310 PM PDT

LAT...LON 3824 11964 3820 11941 3841 11934 3846 11955

$$

RC

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 5, 6:05 PM PDTFlash Flood WarningREVMono115 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.