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Special Weather Statement, NWS Reno, NV

August 1, 2014Mono County, California

NWS Reno, NV issued this special weather statement at Aug 1, 2014, 5:08 PM PDT for Mono County, California. It was in force for 37 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 1, 2014, 5:08 PM PDT (00:08 UTC)
Expired: Aug 1, 2014, 5:45 PM PDT
In force: 37 min
Issued by: NWS Reno, NV

County Mono County, CA

The radar

The San Joaquin Valley radar (KHNX), 194 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:09 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Reno, NV (KREV), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 202 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: 482 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -10 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 3153 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 18 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 59 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.6

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

381 
WWUS85 KREV 020008
SPSREV

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RENO NV
508 PM PDT FRI AUG 1 2014

CAZ073-020045-
MONO-
508 PM PDT FRI AUG 1 2014

...STRONG THUNDERSTORM MOVING INTO THE WHITE MOUNTAINS...

AT 504 PM PDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE TRACKING
A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 9 MILES SOUTHEAST OF BENTON...AND MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

FREQUENT DEADLY LIGHTNING...HEAVY RAIN WITH AMOUNTS NEAR ONE INCH PER
HOUR...PENNY SIZE HAIL...AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS TO 50 MPH...WILL 
OCCUR WITH THIS STORM. THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING NICKLE 
SIZED HAIL.

* LOCATIONS AFFECTED THROUGH 545 PM PDT INCLUDE...MONTGOMERY PEAK 
  AND THE RIDGE SOUTH TOWARD WHITE MOUNTAIN PEAK.

HIKERS SHOULD SEEK SHELTER IN A VEHICLE IF POSSIBLE. TENTS AND TREES 
ARE UNSAFE SHELTERS DURING THUNDERSTORMS. STAY AWAY FROM CREEKS AND 
STREAMS AS WATER LEVELS MAY RISE RAPIDLY NEAR THUNDERSTORMS.

&&

LAT...LON 3770 11853 3790 11843 3790 11841 3776 11823
      3762 11832
TIME...MOT...LOC 0005Z 219DEG 26KT 3776 11834

$$

HOHMANN

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 1, 5:25 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	REV	Mineral	65 min
Aug 1, 5:31 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	REV	Mineral	59 min
Aug 1, 5:48 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	REV	Churchill	57 min
Aug 1, 6:57 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	REV	Churchill	63 min
Aug 1, 8:01 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	REV		44 min
Aug 1, 9:58 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	REV	Pershing	47 min
Aug 2, 9:48 AM PDT	Flash Flood Watch	REV	Lyon, Mineral	36 hr
Aug 2, 4:55 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	REV	Mineral	50 min
Aug 1, 5:31 PM PDT	Flash Flood Warning	REV	Mono	3 hr

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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.