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Flash Flood Watch 5, NWS Reno, NV
NWS Reno, NV issued this flash flood watch at Jul 29, 2014, 12:28 PM PDT for 7 counties in Nevada; Mono County, California. It took effect at Jul 30, 2014, 12:00 PM PDT. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 29, 2014, 12:28 PM PDT (19:28 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jul 30, 2014, 12:00 PM PDT
- Expired
- Jul 30, 2014, 5:32 PM PDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Reno, NV
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Mono County, CA, Churchill County, NV, Douglas County, NV, Lyon County, NV, Mineral County, NV, Pershing County, NV, Storey County, NV, Washoe County, NV
The radar
The Reno radar (KRGX), 62 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 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, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 75 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
- 2879 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -1 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 137 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Reno, NV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 28, 5:33 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | REV | Storey | 42 min |
| Jul 28, 6:04 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | REV | Storey | 41 min |
| Jul 28, 6:36 PM PDT | Areal Flood Advisory | REV | Washoe | 114 min |
| Jul 29, 4:36 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | REV | Pershing | 114 min |
| Jul 29, 4:41 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | REV | Pershing | 2 hr |
| Jul 29, 1:52 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | REV | Alpine, Mono | 83 min |
| Jul 29, 4:56 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | REV | Alpine | 64 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.