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Special Weather Statement, NWS Reno, NV

April 22, 2012

NWS Reno, NV issued this special weather statement at Apr 22, 2012, 6:52 PM PDT. It was in force for 53 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: Apr 22, 2012, 6:52 PM PDT (01:52 UTC)
Expired: Apr 22, 2012, 7:45 PM PDT
In force: 53 min
Issued by: NWS Reno, NV

The radar

The Reno radar (KRGX), 41 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:52 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Reno, NV (KREV), launched 00:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 72 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 3936 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 8 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 91 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.

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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 Apr 22, 2:49 PM PDT, 4 hours 3 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 22, 2:49 PM PDT, 4 hours 3 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Apr 22, 4:43 PM PDT, 2 hours 9 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RENO NV
443 PM PDT SUN APR 22 2012

NVZ001-230030-
MINERAL AND SOUTHERN LYON COUNTIES-
443 PM PDT SUN APR 22 2012

...STRONG THUNDERSTORM MOVING TOWARD SCHURZ...

AT 434 PM PDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE TRACKING
A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES SOUTH OF SCHURZ...OR 7 MILES NORTH OF
BALD MOUNTAIN...AND MOVING NORTH AT 10 MPH.

THE MAIN THREAT FROM THE STORM WILL BE GUSTY WINDS UP TO 50 OR 55
MPH. OCCASIONAL LIGHTNING...MODERATE RAIN WITH RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF
UP TO ONE HALF INCH REDUCING VISIBILITIES TO LESS THAN THREE
MILES...AND SMALL PEA OR MARBLE SIZE HAIL WILL ALSO OCCUR WITH THIS
STORM.

* LOCATIONS AFFECTED INCLUDE...SCHURZ.

IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...SEEK SHELTER INDOORS AND STAY
AWAY FROM WINDOWS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA ALL HAZARDS RADIO...
WEATHER.GOV/RENO ON THE INTERNET...OR LOCAL MEDIA FOR LATER UPDATES
AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.

&&

LAT...LON 3907 11893 3907 11860 3877 11877 3882 11899
TIME...MOT...LOC 2341Z 194DEG 3KT 3888 11885

JHW

Local storm report, Apr 22, 6:03 PM PDT, 49 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Apr 22, 6:52 PM PDT, 0 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 22, 5:22 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	REV	Churchill	38 min
Apr 22, 5:59 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	REV	Churchill	46 min
Apr 22, 8:52 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	REV	Storey	38 min
Apr 22, 8:57 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	REV	Storey	1 min
Apr 22, 8:57 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	REV	Lyon, Storey, Washoe	48 min
Apr 23, 1:54 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	REV	Storey	21 min
Apr 23, 3:08 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	REV		32 min
Apr 23, 4:16 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	REV		44 min
Apr 23, 12:59 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	REV	Plumas	31 min
Apr 23, 2:12 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	REV	Sierra	2 hr
Apr 23, 4:04 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	REV	Lassen	26 min
Apr 23, 4:36 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	REV	Lassen	24 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Nevada, 2012 Every special weather statement in 2012

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.