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Special Weather Statement, NWS Reno, NV

October 16, 2011Washoe County, Nevada

NWS Reno, NV issued this special weather statement at Oct 16, 2011, 4:06 PM PDT for Washoe County, Nevada. It was in force for 24 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 16, 2011, 4:06 PM PDT (23:06 UTC)
Expired: Oct 16, 2011, 4:30 PM PDT
In force: 24 min
Issued by: NWS Reno, NV

County Washoe County, NV

The radar

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The text

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

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Reno, NV wrote its last area forecast discussion before this special weather statement went out at Oct 16, 2:13 PM PDT, 1 hour 53 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 16, 2:13 PM PDT, 1 hour 53 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Oct 16, 3:44 PM PDT, 22 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RENO NV
344 PM PDT SUN OCT 16 2011

NVZ004-005-170015-
NORTHERN WASHOE COUNTY-WESTERN NEVADA BASIN AND RANGE INCLUDING
PYRAMID LAKE-
344 PM PDT SUN OCT 16 2011

...THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO PERSHING COUNTY...

AT 336 PM PDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE TRACKING
A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS FROM 26 MILES NORTHEAST OF GERLACH TO 23
MILES WEST OF GERLACH...AND MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

OCCASIONAL LIGHTNING...MODERATE RAIN...SMALL PEA OR MARBLE SIZE
HAIL...AND GUSTY WINDS TO 40 MPH...ARE OCCURRING WITH THESE STORMS.

* LOCATIONS AFFECTED INCLUDE...EMPIRE...GERLACH...IMLAY...MAJUBA
  MOUNTAIN AND RYE PATCH RESERVOIR.

THESE STORMS WILL AFFECT TRAVELERS ON HIGHWAY 447 NEAR EMPIRE AND
GERLACH AND MAY REACH INTERSTATE 80 BETWEEN LOVELOCK AND WINNEMUCCA
BY 5 PM.

DRIVERS SHOULD EXPECT STRONG GUSTY CROSS WINDS...WITH RAPID
VISIBILITY REDUCTIONS DUE TO BLOWING DUST. RAINFALL WILL CREATE
SLICK ROADS...SLOW DOWN WHEN ENCOUNTERING RAIN AND TURN ON YOUR
HEADLIGHTS.

&&

LAT...LON 4067 11810 4038 11908 4061 11999 4090 11900
TIME...MOT...LOC 2241Z 284DEG 19KT 4090 11896 4063 11975

BRONG

Special weather statement, Oct 16, 4:06 PM PDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RENO NV
406 PM PDT SUN OCT 16 2011

CAZ071-NVZ005-162330-
LASSEN-EASTERN PLUMAS-EASTERN SIERRA COUNTIES-NORTHERN WASHOE COUNTY-
406 PM PDT SUN OCT 16 2011

...STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEARING DUCK FLAT ALONG HIGHWAY 447...

AT 402 PM PDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE TRACKING
A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 12 MILES EAST OF US 395 AT LASSEN-MODOC CO
LINE MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. THIS STORM WILL CROSS HIGHWAY 447 AT
DUCK FLAT AROUND 430 PM.

OCCASIONAL LIGHTNING...STRONG GUSTY WINDS TO 50 MPH...MODERATE RAIN
AND SMALL HAIL ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. GUSTY WINDS MAY PRODUCE
BLOWING DUST WITH VISIBILITY LESS THAN 3 MILES ALONG HIGHWAY 447.

DRIVERS SHOULD EXPECT STRONG GUSTY CROSS WINDS...WITH RAPID
VISIBILITY REDUCTIONS DUE TO BLOWING DUST. RAINFALL WILL CREATE
SLICK ROADS ON HIGHWAY 447...SLOW DOWN WHEN ENCOUNTERING RAIN AND
TURN ON YOUR HEADLIGHTS.

&&

LAT...LON 4103 11941 4078 11955 4110 12035 4119 12032
      4118 12003
TIME...MOT...LOC 2302Z 292DEG 29KT 4113 12019

BRONG

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 16, 3:44 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	REV	Washoe	91 min

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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.