Alert archive / Nevada / Excessive Heat Warnings in 2017
Excessive Heat Warning 1, NWS Reno, NV
NWS Reno, NV issued this excessive heat warning at Aug 2, 2017, 2:57 AM PDT for 7 counties in Nevada; 4 counties in California. It was in force for 38 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 2, 2017, 2:57 AM PDT (09:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 3, 2017, 5:09 PM PDT
- In force
- 38 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Reno, NV
Counties Lassen County, CA, Modoc County, CA, Plumas County, CA, Sierra 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), 18 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:57 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 00:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 126 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
- 61 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -14 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 4242 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 28 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 15 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this excessive heat warning 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 excessive heat warning went out at Aug 2, 2:12 AM PDT, 45 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 2, 2:12 AM PDT, 45 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Reno, NV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 1, 5:14 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | REV | 46 min | |
| Aug 2, 2:45 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | REV | Douglas, Storey | 2 hr |
| Aug 2, 3:22 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | REV | 23 min | |
| Aug 2, 4:34 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | REV | 41 min | |
| Aug 2, 3:37 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | REV | Placer | 23 min |
| Aug 2, 4:41 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | REV | El Dorado, Placer | 34 min |
Nearby
Excessive Heat Warnings in Nevada, 2017Excessive Heat Warnings in California, 2017Every excessive heat warning in 2017
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.