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Special Weather Statement, NWS Reno, NV

August 22, 2016Storey County, Nevada

NWS Reno, NV issued this special weather statement at Aug 22, 2016, 1:09 PM PDT for Storey County, Nevada. It was in force for 51 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 22, 2016, 1:09 PM PDT (20:09 UTC)
Expired: Aug 22, 2016, 2:00 PM PDT
In force: 51 min
Issued by: NWS Reno, NV

County Storey County, NV

The radar

The Reno radar (KRGX), 29 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:10 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

Medford/Jackson, OR (KMFR), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 417 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: 2066 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 27 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 68 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at Aug 21, 1:47 PM PDT, 23 hours 22 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 21, 1:47 PM PDT, 23 hours 22 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 21, 5:11 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	REV	Storey	34 min
Aug 21, 6:54 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	REV	Churchill	36 min
Aug 21, 7:36 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	REV	Storey	39 min
Aug 21, 8:21 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	REV	Storey	39 min
Aug 22, 1:57 PM PDT	Areal Flood Advisory	REV	Washoe	3 hr
Aug 22, 2:04 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	REV		56 min
Aug 22, 2:29 PM PDT	Areal Flood Advisory	REV	Douglas	3 hr
Aug 22, 2:42 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	REV		48 min
Aug 22, 3:21 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	REV	Washoe	39 min
Aug 22, 4:15 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	REV	Storey	60 min
Aug 22, 4:56 PM PDT	Areal Flood Advisory	REV	Washoe	3 hr
Aug 22, 12:35 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	REV	Sierra	40 min
Aug 22, 2:17 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	REV	Lassen	43 min
Aug 22, 3:16 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	REV	Sierra	59 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.