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Special Weather Statement, NWS Reno, NV

August 10, 2012Mineral County, Nevada

NWS Reno, NV issued this special weather statement at Aug 10, 2012, 1:21 PM PDT for Mineral 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: Aug 10, 2012, 1:21 PM PDT (20:21 UTC)
Expired: Aug 10, 2012, 1:45 PM PDT
In force: 24 min
Issued by: NWS Reno, NV

County Mineral County, NV

The radar

The Reno radar (KRGX), 206 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:23 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Reno, NV (KREV), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 146 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: 3570 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 54 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 113 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.

304 
WWUS85 KREV 102021
SPSREV

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RENO NV
121 PM PDT FRI AUG 10 2012

NVZ001-102045-
MINERAL AND SOUTHERN LYON COUNTIES-
121 PM PDT FRI AUG 10 2012

...STRONG THUNDERSTORM SOUTHWEST OF MINA...

AT 115 PM PDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE TRACKING
A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 11 MILES SOUTH SOUTHWEST OF MINA...AND MOVING 
NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

OCCASIONAL LIGHTNING...HEAVY RAIN WITH AMOUNTS NEAR ONE INCH PER
HOUR...PENNY SIZE HAIL...AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS TO 50 MPH...WILL
OCCUR WITH THIS STORM.

* LOCATIONS AFFECTED INCLUDE...MINA AND TONOPAH JUNCTION.

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 3808 11812 3806 11818 3828 11835 3860 11787
      3845 11770
TIME...MOT...LOC 2019Z 241DEG 32KT 3826 11814

$$

TF

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 9, 5:08 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	REV	Mineral	52 min
Aug 9, 6:17 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	REV	Churchill	43 min
Aug 9, 6:53 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	REV	Churchill	52 min
Aug 9, 7:05 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	REV	Churchill	25 min
Aug 9, 7:48 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	REV	Churchill	57 min
Aug 9, 8:34 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	REV	Pershing	56 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.