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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Las Vegas, NV

July 25, 2005Lincoln County, Nevada

NWS Las Vegas, NV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 25, 2005, 4:07 PM PDT for Lincoln County, Nevada. It was in force for 43 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 25, 2005, 4:07 PM PDT (23:07 UTC)
Expired: Jul 25, 2005, 4:50 PM PDT
In force: 43 min
Issued by: NWS Las Vegas, NV
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Lincoln County, NV

The radar

The Las Vegas radar (KESX), 168 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:06 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

Mercury/Desert R, NV (KDRA), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 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.

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: 702 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -145 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1336 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 34 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 42 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 KVEF 252309
SVRVEF
NVC017-252345-
/O.NEW.KVEF.SV.W.0013.050725T2307Z-050725T2345Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV
407 PM PDT MON JUL 25 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAS VEGAS HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTH CENTRAL LINCOLN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEVADA

* UNTIL 445 PM PDT

* AT 405 PM PDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A 
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING NICKEL SIZE HAIL...AND    
  DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED OVER   
  CENTRAL LINCOLN COUNTY...OR ABOUT 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF ALAMO...    
  AND MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH...ALONG AND TO THE EAST OF HIGHWAY  
  93. 

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH...PREPARE 
IMMEDIATELY FOR DAMAGING WINDS...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...AND DEADLY CLOUD 
TO GROUND LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A 
SHELTER...PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

LAT...LON 3741 11501 3732 11520 3689 11482 3703 11458

$$
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2 follow-up statements

000 
WWUS55 KVEF 252326
SVSVEF

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV
423 PM PDT MON JUL 25 2005

NVC017-252345-
/O.CON.KVEF.SV.W.0013.000000T0000Z-050725T2345Z/
LINCOLN NV-
423 PM PDT MON JUL 25 2005

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 445 PM PDT FOR 
SOUTH CENTRAL LINCOLN COUNTY...

AT 420 PM PDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO 
INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING NICKEL SIZE 
HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS 
LOCATED OVER SOUTH CENTRAL LINCOLN COUNTY...OR ABOUT 12 MILES 
SOUTHEAST OF ALAMO...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. HIGHWAY 93 WILL BE 
IMPACTED PREDOMINANTLY BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 28 AND 35.

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL OTHERWISE REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS
OF THE INDICATED COUNTY.

LAT...LON 3741 11501 3732 11520 3689 11482 3703 11458

$$
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000 
WWUS55 KVEF 252350
SVSVEF

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV
445 PM PDT MON JUL 25 2005

NVC017-252354-
/O.EXP.KVEF.SV.W.0013.000000T0000Z-050725T2345Z/
LINCOLN NV-
445 PM PDT MON JUL 25 2005

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SOUTH CENTRAL LINCOLN COUNTY 
EXPIRES AT 445 PM PDT...

THE THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTH CENTRAL LINCOLN HAVE WEAKENED BELOW 
SEVERE LIMITS AND THEREFORE THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR 
SOUTH CENTRAL LINCOLN COUNTY HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. A LINE OF 
THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUES TO PUSH TO THE SOUTHEAST FROM HIGHWAY 93 
NEAR MILE MARKER 24 EASTWARD TO BEAVER DAM AT 20 MPH.

LAT...LON 3741 11501 3732 11520 3689 11482 3703 11458

$$
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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 25, 3:01 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	VEF	Lincoln	36 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.