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Special Weather Statement, NWS Reno, NV

August 31, 2012Churchill County, Nevada

NWS Reno, NV issued this special weather statement at Aug 31, 2012, 3:02 PM PDT for Churchill County, Nevada. It was in force for 28 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 31, 2012, 3:02 PM PDT (22:02 UTC)
Expired: Aug 31, 2012, 3:30 PM PDT
In force: 28 min
Issued by: NWS Reno, NV

County Churchill County, NV

The nearest sounding before it

Reno, NV (KREV), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 66 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: 3186 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 135 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 154 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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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 31, 1:56 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	REV	Churchill	34 min
Aug 31, 2:43 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	REV	Mineral	32 min
Aug 31, 3:28 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	REV		32 min
Aug 31, 3:42 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	REV	Pershing	63 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.