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Special Weather Statement, NWS Reno, NV

August 5, 2012Pershing County, Nevada

NWS Reno, NV issued this special weather statement at Aug 5, 2012, 12:49 PM PDT for Pershing County, Nevada. It was in force for 56 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 5, 2012, 12:49 PM PDT (19:49 UTC)
Expired: Aug 5, 2012, 1:45 PM PDT
In force: 56 min
Issued by: NWS Reno, NV

County Pershing County, NV

The nearest sounding before it

Reno, NV (KREV), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 98 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.

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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: 2246 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 65 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 43 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 Aug 5, 9:35 AM PDT, 3 hours 14 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 5, 9:35 AM PDT, 3 hours 14 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 5, 11:54 AM PDT, 55 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RENO NV
1154 AM PDT SUN AUG 5 2012

NVZ004-051945-
WESTERN NEVADA BASIN AND RANGE INCLUDING PYRAMID LAKE-
1154 AM PDT SUN AUG 5 2012

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER EASTERN CHURCHILL COUNTY...

AT 1150 AM PDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE
TRACKING A CLUSTER OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS EASTERN CHURCHILL
COUNTY INCLUDING HIGHWAY 50. THE STRONGEST STORM IS LOCATED 9 MILES
SOUTH OF DIXIE VALLEY. ALL STORMS ARE MOVING NORTH AT 20 MPH.

OCCASIONAL LIGHTNING...MODERATE RAIN...PENNY SIZE HAIL...AND STRONG
GUSTY WINDS TO 50 MPH...WILL OCCUR WITH THIS STORM.

* LOCATIONS AFFECTED INCLUDE...COLD SPRINGS...DIXIE VALLEY...
  FRENCHMAN...MIDDLEGATE...JUNCTION US 50 AND NV 121 (DIXIE VALLEY
  RD) AND JUNCTION US 50 AND NV 722.

DURING A THUNDERSTORM...SEEK SHELTER INSIDE A STURDY STRUCTURE AND
STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. HIKERS AND CAMPERS SHOULD SEEK SHELTER IN A
VEHICLE IF POSSIBLE.

&&

LAT...LON 3948 11760 3943 11762 3937 11770 3937 11775
      3922 11771 3916 11778 3909 11778 3908 11823
      3961 11837 3999 11842 3999 11756 3973 11754
TIME...MOT...LOC 1852Z 177DEG 17KT 3920 11792

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Special weather statement, Aug 5, 12:49 PM PDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RENO NV
1249 PM PDT SUN AUG 5 2012

NVZ004-052045-
WESTERN NEVADA BASIN AND RANGE INCLUDING PYRAMID LAKE-
1249 PM PDT SUN AUG 5 2012

...STRONG STORMS ACROSS EASTERN CHURCHILL AND PERSHING COUNTIES...

AT 1239 PM PDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE
TRACKING A CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS EASTERN PERSHING AND
CHURCHILL COUNTIES. THESE STORMS WILL AFFECT PORTIONS OF INTERSTATE
80 NORTHEAST OF LOVELOCK AND NEAR RYE PATCH RESERVOIR. ALL STORMS
WILL MOVE NORTH AT 30 MPH.

OCCASIONAL LIGHTNING...MODERATE RAIN...PENNY SIZE HAIL...AND STRONG
GUSTY WINDS TO 50 MPH...WILL OCCUR WITH THIS STORM.

* LOCATIONS AFFECTED INCLUDE...IMLAY...MILL CITY...OREANA...RYE PATCH
  RESERVOIR...UNIONVILLE AND STAR PEAK.

* THIS STORM WILL AFFECT INTERSTATE 80 IN NEVADA BETWEEN MILE MARKERS
  110 AND 149.

DURING A THUNDERSTORM...SEEK SHELTER INSIDE A STURDY STRUCTURE AND
STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. HIKERS AND CAMPERS SHOULD SEEK SHELTER IN A
VEHICLE IF POSSIBLE.

&&

LAT...LON 4070 11763 4069 11730 4068 11728 4050 11729
      4002 11753 3991 11745 3982 11748 3969 11747
      3972 11825 4064 11845 4072 11825 4072 11766
TIME...MOT...LOC 1943Z 171DEG 27KT 3991 11805

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 5, 6:19 AM PDT	Special Weather Statement	REV	Storey	26 min
Aug 5, 11:54 AM PDT	Special Weather Statement	REV	Churchill	51 min
Aug 5, 3:48 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	REV	Pershing	57 min
Aug 4, 8:20 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	REV	Mono	25 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.