Alert archive / Nevada / Tornado Warnings in 2017
Tornado Warning 1, NWS Reno, NV
NWS Reno, NV issued this tornado warning at Sep 13, 2017, 4:12 PM PDT for Douglas County, Washoe County, Nevada; El Dorado County, Placer County, California. It was in force for 33 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
- Sep 13, 2017, 4:12 PM PDT (23:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 13, 2017, 4:45 PM PDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Reno, NV
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Tornado
- Observed
- Hail
- 1.0 in
Counties El Dorado County, CA, Placer County, CA, Douglas County, NV, Washoe County, NV
The radar
The Reno radar (KRGX), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:13 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
Reno, NV (KREV), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 163 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1859 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 20 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 14 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
833 WFUS55 KREV 132312 TORREV CAC017-061-NVC005-031-510-132345- /O.NEW.KREV.TO.W.0001.170913T2312Z-170913T2345Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED Tornado Warning National Weather Service Reno NV 412 PM PDT WED SEP 13 2017 The National Weather Service in Reno has issued a * Tornado Warning for... Placer County in central California... El Dorado County in northern California... Southern Washoe County in western Nevada... Douglas County in western Nevada... Western Carson City in western Nevada... * Until 445 PM PDT * At 409 PM PDT, a confirmed funnel cloud was located over Lake Tahoe. HAZARD...Damaging waterspout/tornado and quarter size hail. SOURCE...Public confirmed tornado. IMPACT...Marine vessels may capsize in high winds * The tornado will be near... Carson City and Glenbrook around 409 PM PDT. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Head to safe harbor immediately! && LAT...LON 3917 11994 3901 11994 3900 12008 3915 12010 TIME...MOT...LOC 2309Z 240DEG 0KT 3908 12002 TORNADO...OBSERVED HAIL...1.00IN $$ TF
2 follow-up statements
614
WWUS55 KREV 132332
SVSREV
Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Reno NV
432 PM PDT WED SEP 13 2017
CAC017-061-NVC005-031-510-132345-
/O.CON.KREV.TO.W.0001.000000T0000Z-170913T2345Z/
Placer CA-El Dorado CA-Washoe NV-Douglas NV-Carson City NV-
432 PM PDT WED SEP 13 2017
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 445 PM PDT FOR PLACER...
EL DORADO...SOUTHERN WASHOE...AND DOUGLAS COUNTIES AND WESTERN CARSON
CITY...
At 427 PM PDT, a confirmed waterspout was reported over Lake Tahoe.
*The waterspout made contact with the lake surface as evidenced by
numerous spotter photos showing and well defined spray ring on the
water surface of Lake Tahoe.
*Waterspouts can easily capsize vessels and are a threat to lives
for anyone out on the water.
HAZARD...Damaging waterspout/tornado and quarter size hail.
SOURCE...Weather spotters confirmed waterspout/tornado.
This waterspout was located over Lake Tahoe.
LAT...LON 3917 11994 3901 11994 3900 12008 3915 12010
TIME...MOT...LOC 2327Z 240DEG 0KT 3908 12002
TORNADO...OBSERVED
HAIL...1.00IN
$$
TF064
WWUS55 KREV 132346
SVSREV
Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Reno NV
446 PM PDT WED SEP 13 2017
CAC017-061-NVC005-031-510-132355-
/O.EXP.KREV.TO.W.0001.000000T0000Z-170913T2345Z/
Placer CA-El Dorado CA-Washoe NV-Douglas NV-Carson City NV-
446 PM PDT WED SEP 13 2017
...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR PLACER...EL DORADO...SOUTHERN WASHOE...AND
DOUGLAS COUNTIES AND WESTERN CARSON CITY HAS EXPIRED...
The storm which prompted the warning has weakened below severe
limits, and no longer appears capable of producing a tornado.
Therefore the warning has been allowed to expire. However gusty
winds up to 45 mph and small hail are still possible with this
thunderstorm.
LAT...LON 3917 11994 3901 11994 3900 12008 3915 12010
TIME...MOT...LOC 2345Z 240DEG 0KT 3908 12002
$$
TFThe office that day
Everything else NWS Reno, NV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 12, 5:04 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | REV | 26 min | |
| Sep 12, 6:39 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | REV | Storey | 51 min |
| Sep 12, 6:52 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | REV | Churchill, Mineral | 83 min |
| Sep 13, 2:56 PM PDT | Lake Wind Advisory | REV | Churchill, Douglas, Lyon, Pershing, Washoe | 29 hr |
| Sep 13, 3:08 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | REV | Douglas | 52 min |
| Sep 13, 3:49 PM PDT | Areal Flood Advisory | REV | Douglas, Lyon | 116 min |
| Sep 13, 3:53 PM PDT | Areal Flood Advisory | REV | Lyon | 3 hr |
| Sep 13, 3:57 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | REV | Douglas, Washoe | 48 min |
| Sep 13, 4:30 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | REV | 60 min | |
| Sep 13, 4:37 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | REV | Douglas, Lyon, Storey, Washoe | 38 min |
| Sep 13, 4:44 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | REV | Lyon | 61 min |
| Sep 13, 4:59 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | REV | 76 min | |
| Sep 13, 3:43 PM PDT | Areal Flood Advisory | REV | Nevada | 3 hr |
| Sep 13, 4:55 PM PDT | Areal Flood Advisory | REV | Plumas | 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.