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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Las Vegas, NV

September 4, 2007San Bernardino County, California; Mohave County, Arizona

NWS Las Vegas, NV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 4, 2007, 5:00 PM PDT for San Bernardino County, California; Mohave County, Arizona. It was in force for 45 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
Sep 4, 2007, 5:00 PM PDT (00:00 UTC)
Expired
Sep 4, 2007, 5:45 PM PDT
In force
45 min
Issued by
NWS Las Vegas, NV
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Mohave County, AZ, San Bernardino County, CA

The radar

The Las Vegas radar (KESX), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:01 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 00:00Z, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 247 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, Mercury/Desert R, NV at 00:00Z on 2007-09-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Mercury/Desert R, NV at 00:00Z on 2007-09-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 0 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
4610 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
0 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
115 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 050001
SVRVEF
AZC015-CAC071-050045-
/O.NEW.KVEF.SV.W.0021.070905T0000Z-070905T0045Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV
500 PM MST TUE SEP 4 2007

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAS VEGAS HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHWESTERN MOHAVE COUNTY IN NORTHWEST ARIZONA...
  EAST CENTRAL SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST CALIFORNIA...

* UNTIL 545 PM MST(545 PM PDT).

* AT 450 PM PDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL...AND
  DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 13 MILES
  SOUTH OF NEEDLES...OR ABOUT 14 MILES WEST OF TOPOCK...AND WAS
  MOVING NORTHEAST AT 8 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  NEEDLES AND TOPOCK AROUND 530 PM MST...

LAT...LON 3458 11486 3446 11465 3487 11415 3509 11446

$$

JJ
1 follow-up statement
000 
WWUS55 KVEF 050018
SVSVEF

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV
516 PM PDT TUE SEP 4 2007

AZC015-CAC071-050045-
/O.CON.KVEF.SV.W.0021.000000T0000Z-070905T0045Z/
MOHAVE AZ-SAN BERNARDINO CA-
516 PM MST TUE SEP 4 2007

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 545 PM
MST(545 PM PDT) FOR EAST CENTRAL SAN BERNARDINO AND SOUTHWESTERN
MOHAVE COUNTIES...

AT 507 PM PDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE
HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS 
LOCATED 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF NEEDLES...MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 8 
MPH.

THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS CROSSING HIGHWAY 95 SOUTH OF NEEDLES AT 
507 PM AND SHOULD REACH INTERSTATE 40 BY 530 PM AND THE TOWN OF 
TOPOCK AT 530 PM AS WELL. 


LAT...LON 3458 11486 3446 11465 3487 11415 3509 11446

$$

JJ

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 4, 5:40 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningVEFSan Bernardino26 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in California, 2007Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Arizona, 2007Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2007

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.