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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Las Vegas, NV

October 14, 2006Clark County, Nevada; Mohave County, Arizona

NWS Las Vegas, NV issued this tornado warning at Oct 14, 2006, 12:14 AM PDT for Clark County, Nevada; Mohave County, Arizona. It was in force for 23 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: Oct 14, 2006, 12:14 AM PDT (07:14 UTC)
Expired: Oct 14, 2006, 12:37 AM PDT
In force: 23 min
Issued by: NWS Las Vegas, NV
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Mohave County, AZ, Clark County, NV

The radar

The Las Vegas radar (KESX), 12 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:15 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

Flgstf/Belemont, AZ (KFGZ), launched 00:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 275 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: 8 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -47 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1564 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 59 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 155 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000
WFUS55 KVEF 140715
TORVEF
AZC015-NVC003-140745-
/O.NEW.KVEF.TO.W.0002.061014T0714Z-061014T0745Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV
1214 AM PDT SAT OCT 14 2006

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAS VEGAS HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EXTREME WEST CENTRAL MOHAVE COUNTY IN NORTHWEST ARIZONA...
  SOUTH CENTRAL CLARK COUNTY IN SOUTHERN NEVADA...

* UNTIL 1245 AM PDT(1245 AM MST).

* AT 1210 AM PDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 6 MILES
  NORTHWEST OF COTTONWOOD COVE...AND WAS MOVING NORTH AT 30 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS WILL REMAIN OVER THE OPEN DESERT BETWEEN
  LAKE MOHAVE AND HIGHWAY 95 UNTIL 1235 AM.

IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A 
CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.

LAT...LON 3547 11489 3546 11467 3589 11461 3590 11489

$$
JGA

1 follow-up statement

000
WWUS55 KVEF 140737
SVSVEF

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV
1235 AM PDT SAT OCT 14 2006

AZC015-NVC003-140741-
/O.CAN.KVEF.TO.W.0002.000000T0000Z-061014T0745Z/
MOHAVE AZ-CLARK NV-
1235 AM PDT SAT OCT 14 2006

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR SOUTH CENTRAL CLARK AND EXTREME WEST
CENTRAL MOHAVE COUNTIES IS CANCELLED...

AT 1230 AM...DOPPLER RADAR NO LONGER DETECTED A TORNADO AND STRONG 
ROTATION HAD SIGNIFICANTLY DIMINISHED WITHIN THE THUNDERSTORM 
BETWEEN SEARCHLIGHT AND NELSON LANDING. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 
WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THIS SAME STORM WITH WIND GUSTS IN 
EXCESS OF 60 MPH POSSIBLE ALONG WITH DIME SIZED HAIL. THE SEVERE 
THUNDERSTORM WILL TRACK ACROSS THE NELSON LANDING ROAD...STATE 
ROUTE 165...AND CONTINUE MOVING NORTH AT 30 MPH OVER THE OPEN DESERT 
BETWEEN WILLOW BEACH AND HIGHWAY 95 UNTIL AT LEAST 1245 AM.

LAT...LON 3547 11489 3546 11467 3589 11461 3590 11489

$$
JGA

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 13, 5:06 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	VEF	Clark	39 min
Oct 13, 5:43 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	VEF	Clark	47 min
Oct 13, 11:28 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	VEF	Clark	32 min
Oct 14, 12:01 AM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	VEF	Clark	44 min
Oct 14, 1:07 AM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	VEF	Clark	38 min
Oct 14, 3:45 AM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	VEF	Clark	60 min
Oct 14, 3:35 PM PDT	Flash Flood Warning	VEF	Mohave	115 min

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in Nevada, 2006 Tornado Warnings in Arizona, 2006 Every tornado warning in 2006 Tornadoes in 2006

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.