Alert archive / Nevada / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2007
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 39, NWS Reno, NV
NWS Reno, NV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 31, 2007, 3:54 PM PDT for Pershing County, Washoe County, Nevada. It was in force for 51 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 31, 2007, 3:54 PM PDT (22:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 31, 2007, 4:45 PM PDT
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Reno, NV
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Pershing County, NV, Washoe County, NV
The radar
The Reno radar (KRGX), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:55 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
Reno, NV (KREV), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 155 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
- 142 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -192 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1782 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 41 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 92 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WUUS55 KREV 312256
SVRREV
NVC027-031-312345-
/O.NEW.KREV.SV.W.0039.070831T2254Z-070831T2345Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RENO NV
354 PM PDT FRI AUG 31 2007
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RENO HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
WEST CENTRAL PERSHING COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL NEVADA...
CENTRAL WASHOE COUNTY IN WESTERN NEVADA...
THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...PYRAMID LAKE...GERLACH...
* UNTIL 445 PM PDT
* AT 351 PM PDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS IN
EXCESS OF 60 MPH AS WELL AS HEAVY RAIN. THESE STORMS WERE LOCATED
ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 29 MILES SOUTHWEST OF GERLACH TO 15
MILES EAST OF PYRAMID LAKE...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
HIGHWAY 447 BY 410 PM PDT...
GERLACH BY 435 PM PDT...
SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY INSIDE A STURDY STRUCTURE AND STAY AWAY
FROM WINDOWS. AREAS OF BLOWING DUST AND HEAVY RAIN WILL RAPIDLY
REDUCE VISIBILITIES TO BELOW ONE MILE.
THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL. WATCH FOR
PONDING WATER ON AREA ROADWAYS. DRIVERS SHOULD SLOW DOWN IF
ENCOUNTERING HEAVY RAINS...AND REMEMBER TO TURN ON THEIR HEADLIGHTS.
LAT...LON 4083 11937 4032 11885 3993 11951 4040 12001
4042 12000 4053 12000
TIME...MOT...LOC 2254Z 230DEG 25KT 4050 11983 4013 11927
$$
JAHThe office that day
Everything else NWS Reno, NV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 31, 2:36 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | REV | Washoe | 24 min |
| Aug 31, 2:55 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | REV | Churchill, Pershing, Washoe | 65 min |
| Aug 31, 3:33 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | REV | Washoe | 42 min |
| Aug 31, 4:11 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | REV | Pershing, Washoe | 64 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.