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Special Weather Statement, NWS Reno, NV

August 19, 2012

NWS Reno, NV issued this special weather statement at Aug 19, 2012, 9:25 AM PDT. It was in force for 20 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 19, 2012, 9:25 AM PDT (16:25 UTC)
Expired: Aug 19, 2012, 9:45 AM PDT
In force: 20 min
Issued by: NWS Reno, NV

The radar

The Reno radar (KRGX), 180 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:28 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Reno, NV (KREV), launched 12:00Z, 4.4 hours before the alert went out and 230 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: 2614 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 52 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 115 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 19, 8:24 AM PDT, 1 hour 1 minute earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 19, 8:24 AM PDT, 1 hour 1 minute before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 19, 9:25 AM PDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RENO NV
925 AM PDT SUN AUG 19 2012

NVZ005-191645-
NORTHERN WASHOE COUNTY-
925 AM PDT SUN AUG 19 2012

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS NORTHERN WASHOE COUNTY...

AT 919 AM PDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE TRACKING
A CLUSTER OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS 30 MILES SOUTHEAST OF
EAGLEVILLE...OR 34 MILES NORTHWEST OF GERLACH...AND MOVING NORTHEAST
AT 45 MPH.

FREQUENT DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND GUSTY WINDS TO 40 MPH...WILL OCCUR
WITH THIS STORM.

* LOCATIONS AFFECTED INCLUDE...VYA...FOX MOUNTAIN...CHERRY
  MOUNTAIN...MAHOGANY MOUNTAIN AND BADGER MOUNTAIN.

* THIS STORM WILL IMPACT TRAVELERS ON STATE ROUTE 34 BETWEEN VYA AND
  GERLACH.

FREQUENT DEADLY LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. MOVE INDOORS
IF POSSIBLE. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS AND AVOID USING LANDLINE
TELEPHONES UNLESS IT IS AN EMERGENCY.

&&

LAT...LON 4165 11931 4124 11930 4089 11948 4114 11991
      4168 11989
TIME...MOT...LOC 1622Z 222DEG 40KT 4111 11961

MYRICK

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 19, 12:21 PM PDT	Fire Weather Watch	REV	Washoe	26 hr
Aug 19, 2:13 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	REV	Churchill	32 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.