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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS Las Vegas, NV

July 29, 2016Nye County, Nevada

NWS Las Vegas, NV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 29, 2016, 5:21 PM PDT for Nye County, Nevada. It was in force for 24 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
Jul 29, 2016, 5:21 PM PDT (00:21 UTC)
Expired
Jul 29, 2016, 5:45 PM PDT
In force
24 min
Issued by
NWS Las Vegas, NV
Area
Storm-based polygon

County Nye County, NV

The radar

The Las Vegas radar (KESX), 233 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:21 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

Las Vegas, NV (KVEF), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 140 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Las Vegas, NV at 00:00Z on 2016-07-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 601 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Las Vegas, NV at 00:00Z on 2016-07-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 7 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
601 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-30 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
4036 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
10 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
7 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
73 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

967 
WUUS55 KVEF 300021
SVRVEF
NVC023-300045-
/O.NEW.KVEF.SV.W.0049.160730T0021Z-160730T0045Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV
521 PM PDT FRI JUL 29 2016

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAS VEGAS  HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  WEST CENTRAL NYE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEVADA...

* UNTIL 545 PM PDT

* AT 519 PM PDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
  CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM
  WAS LOCATED 15 MILES SOUTHEAST OF SCOTTYS JUNCTION...OR 17 MILES
  NORTH OF BEATTY...AND MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. THIS WILL PRIMARILY
  AFFECT MILE MARKERS 70 THOUGH 85 ON HIGHWAY 95. 

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  SCOTTYS JUNCTION. HIGHWAY 95. 

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

THIS STORM WILL PRODUCE HIGH WINDS WHICH CAN BRING DOWN TREES AND
POWER LINES AND CASUE BLOWING DUST. ALSO...LIGHTNING CAN KILL! TAKE
COVER IN A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM
PASSES. REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE LAS VEGAS NATIONAL WEATHER
SERVICE VIA FACEBOOK OR TWITTER.

&&

LAT...LON 3697 11694 3726 11715 3749 11655 3709 11627
TIME...MOT...LOC 0019Z 248DEG 13KT 3715 11683 

$$

ASG
1 follow-up statement
268 
WWUS55 KVEF 300045
SVSVEF

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV
545 PM PDT FRI JUL 29 2016

NVC023-300054-
/O.EXP.KVEF.SV.W.0049.000000T0000Z-160730T0045Z/
NYE NV-
545 PM PDT FRI JUL 29 2016

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR WEST CENTRAL NYE COUNTY WILL
EXPIRE AT 545 PM PDT...
                
THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS WEAKENED BELOW SEVERE
LIMITS...AND NO LONGER POSES AN IMMEDIATE THREAT TO LIFE OR PROPERTY.
THEREFORE THE WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. GUSTY WINDS ALONG
WITH THE POSSIBILITY OF BLOWING DUST WILL STILL EXIST THROUGH 630
PM. 

LAT...LON 3697 11694 3726 11715 3749 11655 3709 11627
TIME...MOT...LOC 0040Z 248DEG 13KT 3715 11683 

$$

ASG

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 30, 12:50 AM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningVEFClark85 min
Jul 30, 2:22 PM PDTFlash Flood WatchVEFClark, Lincoln12 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Nevada, 2016Every severe thunderstorm warning 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.