Alert archive / Nevada / Flash Flood Watches in 2014
Flash Flood Watch 1, NWS Reno, NV
NWS Reno, NV issued this flash flood watch at Jul 14, 2014, 12:52 PM PDT for 5 counties in Nevada; 5 counties in California. It took effect at Jul 16, 2014, 12:00 PM PDT. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 14, 2014, 12:52 PM PDT (19:52 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jul 16, 2014, 12:00 PM PDT
- Expired
- Jul 16, 2014, 11:47 AM PDT
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Reno, NV
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Alpine County, CA, El Dorado County, CA, Mono County, CA, Nevada County, CA, Placer County, CA, Douglas County, NV, Lyon County, NV, Mineral County, NV, Storey County, NV, Washoe County, NV
The radar
The Reno radar (KRGX), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:54 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, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 144 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
- 3350 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 7 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -9 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 57 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 14, 3:07 AM PDT, 9 hours 45 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 14, 3:07 AM PDT, 9 hours 45 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Reno, NV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 14, 3:55 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | REV | Storey | 35 min |
| Jul 14, 4:33 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | REV | Storey, Washoe | 42 min |
| Jul 14, 1:33 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | REV | Alpine | 57 min |
| Jul 14, 2:09 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | REV | Mono | 51 min |
| Jul 14, 3:02 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | REV | Mono | 43 min |
| Jul 14, 3:27 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | REV | Mono | 33 min |
| Jul 14, 4:01 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | REV | Mono | 3 hr |
| Jul 14, 4:54 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | REV | Mono | 51 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Watches in Nevada, 2014Flash Flood Watches in California, 2014Every flash flood watch in 2014
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.