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Special Weather Statement, NWS Reno, NV
NWS Reno, NV issued this special weather statement at Aug 18, 2012, 12:27 PM PDT for Esmeralda County, Nevada. It was in force for 48 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 18, 2012, 12:27 PM PDT (19:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 18, 2012, 1:15 PM PDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Reno, NV
County Esmeralda County, NV
The radar
The San Joaquin Valley radar (KHNX), 193 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:30 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Reno, NV (KREV), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 218 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2304 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 16 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 54 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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</html>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 18, 3:01 AM PDT, 9 hours 26 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 18, 3:01 AM PDT, 9 hours 26 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 18, 8:30 AM PDT, 3 hours 57 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RENO NV 830 AM PDT SAT AUG 18 2012 CAZ070>073-NVZ001>005-190330- SURPRISE VALLEY CALIFORNIA-LASSEN-EASTERN PLUMAS- EASTERN SIERRA COUNTIES-GREATER LAKE TAHOE AREA-MONO- MINERAL AND SOUTHERN LYON COUNTIES-GREATER RENO-CARSON CITY- MINDEN AREA-WESTERN NEVADA BASIN AND RANGE INCLUDING PYRAMID LAKE- NORTHERN WASHOE COUNTY- 830 AM PDT SAT AUG 18 2012 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE EASTERN SIERRA... NORTHEAST CALIFORNIA AND WESTERN NEVADA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT AMPLE MOISTURE WILL HELP PRODUCE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS EASTERN CALIFORNIA AND WESTERN NEVADA TODAY. THE STORMS WILL BE ABLE TO PRODUCE MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN WITH THE POTENTIAL OF MINOR FLOODING. SMALL MUD AND DEBRIS FLOWS ARE POSSIBLE NEAR STEEP TERRAIN...ESPECIALLY ACROSS DOUGLAS....NORTHERN MONO AND THE EASTERN PORTIONS OF SIERRA...NEVADA...PLACER...ELDORADO AND ALPINE COUNTIES WHERE HEAVY RAIN HAS OCCURRED IN THE LAST COUPLE DAYS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY OVER WESTERN NEVADA SUNDAY. DRY AIR WILL PUSH INTO THE REGION BY MONDAY ENDING THE CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME. SPOTTERS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT TO THE POSSIBILITY OF HEAVY RAIN THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING AND PASS REPORTS TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RENO. FOR MORE INFORMATION FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE VISIT... HTTP://FORECAST.WEATHER.GOV/HAZARDS/REV (ALL LOWER CASE)
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 18, 12:27 PM PDT, 0 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RENO NV 1227 PM PDT SAT AUG 18 2012 CAZ073-182015- MONO- 1227 PM PDT SAT AUG 18 2012 ...STATIONARY THUNDERSTORM OVER THE WHITE MOUNTAINS... AT 1225 PM PDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE TRACKING A NEARLY STATIONARY THUNDERSTORM OVER THE WHITE MOUNTAINS NEAR THE BARCROFT RESEARCH FACILITY. OCCASIONAL LIGHTNING...HEAVY RAIN WITH AMOUNTS NEAR ONE INCH PER HOUR...AND SMALL HAIL ARE OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. * LOCATIONS AFFECTED INCLUDE...WHITE MOUNTAIN PEAK. HEAVY RAINFALL IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. MUD AND ROCK SLIDES ARE POSSIBLE IN AREAS OF STEEP TERRAIN...WITH WATER FLOWING THROUGH DRY WASHES AND ACROSS DIRT ROADS. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO DRIVE THROUGH AREAS OF WATER COVERING ROADS...AS THE ROAD MAY BE WASHED OUT. && LAT...LON 3769 11814 3748 11807 3748 11829 3769 11830 TIME...MOT...LOC 1922Z 280DEG 3KT 3757 11816 BRONG
The office that day
Everything else NWS Reno, NV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 17, 5:24 PM PDT | Areal Flood Advisory | REV | Placer | 108 min |
| Aug 17, 5:51 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | REV | Sierra | 54 min |
| Aug 18, 4:13 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | REV | Mono | 62 min |
Nearby
Special Weather Statements in Nevada, 2012Every 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.