Alert archive / Nevada / Flash Flood Watches in 2013
Flash Flood Watch 4, NWS Reno, NV
NWS Reno, NV issued this flash flood watch at Jul 27, 2013, 8:50 AM PDT for Lyon County, Mineral County, Nevada; Mono County, California. It took effect at Jul 27, 2013, 2:00 PM PDT. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 27, 2013, 8:50 AM PDT (15:50 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jul 27, 2013, 2:00 PM PDT
- Expired
- Jul 27, 2013, 9:00 PM PDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Reno, NV
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Mono County, CA, Lyon County, NV, Mineral County, NV
The radar
The Reno radar (KRGX), 150 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:50 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Reno, NV (KREV), launched 12:00Z, 3.8 hours before the alert went out and 131 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
- 2340 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -18 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 45 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood watch 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 flash flood watch went out at Jul 27, 2:48 AM PDT, 6 hours 2 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 27, 2:48 AM PDT, 6 hours 2 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 27, 5:47 AM PDT, 3 hours 3 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RENO NV 547 AM PDT SAT JUL 27 2013 CAZ070>073-NVZ001>005-280100- 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- 547 AM PDT SAT JUL 27 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE EASTERN SIERRA... NORTHEAST CALIFORNIA AND WESTERN NEVADA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT ISOLATED TO SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ALONG THE EASTERN SIERRA AND WESTERN NEVADA THIS AFTERNOON AND SHOULD CONTINUE INTO THE EVENING. LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN...HAIL...GUSTY WINDS AND DEADLY LIGHTNING CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THE STORMS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE AGAIN POSSIBLE ON SUNDAY ...MAINLY SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 80. HIGH PRESSURE WILL THEN START TO BUILD INTO THE REGION ON MONDAY WITH DRY CONDITIONS AND NEAR NORMAL TEMPERATURES THROUGH NEXT WEEK. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SKYWARN SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON. SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ACCORDING TO STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES. FOR MORE INFORMATION FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE VISIT... HTTP://FORECAST.WEATHER.GOV/HAZARDS/REV (ALL LOWER CASE) O'HARA
The office that day
Everything else NWS Reno, NV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 26, 5:49 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | REV | Lyon | 116 min |
| Jul 26, 6:36 PM PDT | Areal Flood Advisory | REV | Churchill | 114 min |
| Jul 26, 7:38 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | REV | Lyon | 37 min |
| Jul 26, 7:44 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | REV | 91 min | |
| Jul 26, 7:53 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | REV | Storey | 52 min |
| Jul 27, 1:55 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | REV | Mineral | 3 hr |
| Jul 27, 4:30 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | REV | Douglas | 3 hr |
| Jul 27, 1:17 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | REV | Mono | 43 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Watches in Nevada, 2013Flash Flood Watches in California, 2013Every flash flood watch in 2013
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.