Alert archive / Nevada / Special Weather Statements in 2016

Special Weather Statement, NWS Reno, NV

May 5, 2016Storey County, Nevada

NWS Reno, NV issued this special weather statement at May 5, 2016, 1:52 PM PDT for Storey County, Nevada. It was in force for 38 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: May 5, 2016, 1:52 PM PDT (20:52 UTC)
Expired: May 5, 2016, 2:30 PM PDT
In force: 38 min
Issued by: NWS Reno, NV

County Storey County, NV

The radar

The Reno radar (KRGX), 32 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:53 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, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 119 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: 1613 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 61 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 57 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 194 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted.

<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
  <title>Service Notice</title>
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="index.css">
</head>
<body>
  <main class="wrap">
    <section class="card" role="status" aria-live="polite">
      <div class="status" id="status">Temporary Notice</div>
      <h1 id="headline">This service is currently unavailable.</h1>
      <p id="message1">
        The site you requested is temporarily down for maintenance or an unexpected outage.
      </p>
      <p id="message2">
        Please try again in a few minutes.
      </p>
      <p class="small" id="detail">
        If you are an administrator, restore upstream service and remove the redirect/fallback rule when normal operations resume.
      </p>
    </section>
  </main>
  <script src="index.js"></script>
</body>
</html>

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 5, 6:02 AM PDT	Special Weather Statement	REV		58 min
May 5, 6:15 AM PDT	Special Weather Statement	REV		45 min
May 5, 6:30 AM PDT	Special Weather Statement	REV		30 min
May 5, 7:03 AM PDT	Special Weather Statement	REV		57 min
May 5, 8:59 AM PDT	Special Weather Statement	REV	Douglas	31 min
May 5, 9:00 AM PDT	Special Weather Statement	REV	Douglas	30 min
May 5, 9:34 AM PDT	Special Weather Statement	REV		26 min
May 5, 10:08 AM PDT	Special Weather Statement	REV	Storey	22 min
May 5, 10:36 AM PDT	Special Weather Statement	REV	Storey	24 min
May 5, 12:12 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	REV	Douglas	33 min
May 5, 12:51 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	REV		24 min
May 5, 1:23 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	REV	Storey	22 min
May 5, 2:20 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	REV	Lyon	40 min
May 5, 2:23 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	REV	Storey	37 min
May 5, 3:17 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	REV	Storey	43 min
May 5, 3:42 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	REV	Churchill, Lyon, Washoe	63 min
May 4, 5:27 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	REV	Sierra	33 min
May 4, 6:04 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	REV	Sierra	41 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Nevada, 2016 Every special weather statement in 2016

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.