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Special Weather Statement, NWS Reno, NV

May 16, 2018Mineral County, Nevada

NWS Reno, NV issued this special weather statement at May 16, 2018, 1:49 PM PDT for Mineral County, Nevada. It was in force for 26 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 16, 2018, 1:49 PM PDT (20:49 UTC)
Expired: May 16, 2018, 2:15 PM PDT
In force: 26 min
Issued by: NWS Reno, NV

County Mineral County, NV

The radar

The Reno radar (KRGX), 145 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:50 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Reno, NV (KREV), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 85 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: 20 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -53 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1140 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 7 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 115 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 16, 6:05 AM PDT	Special Weather Statement	REV	Storey	40 min
May 16, 6:27 AM PDT	Special Weather Statement	REV	Douglas	2 hr
May 16, 10:27 AM PDT	Special Weather Statement	REV	Douglas	48 min
May 16, 11:01 AM PDT	Special Weather Statement	REV	Douglas, Storey	119 min
May 16, 11:06 AM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	REV	Lyon	54 min
May 16, 11:23 AM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	REV	Lyon	52 min
May 16, 11:37 AM PDT	Special Weather Statement	REV	Churchill	23 min
May 16, 11:53 AM PDT	Special Weather Statement	REV	Storey	37 min
May 16, 11:55 AM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	REV	Lyon, Mineral	65 min
May 16, 12:14 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	REV	Churchill	31 min
May 16, 12:16 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	REV	Pershing	29 min
May 16, 12:24 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	REV	Washoe	111 min
May 16, 12:30 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	REV	Mineral	45 min
May 16, 12:48 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	REV	Mineral	57 min
May 16, 1:26 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	REV	Lyon	49 min
May 16, 2:10 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	REV	Churchill	65 min
May 16, 2:44 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	REV	Washoe	2 hr
May 16, 2:56 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	REV	Washoe	49 min
May 16, 2:58 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	REV	Churchill	47 min
May 16, 3:46 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	REV	Churchill	59 min
May 16, 10:06 AM PDT	Special Weather Statement	REV	Alpine	24 min
May 16, 12:07 PM PDT	Areal Flood Advisory	REV	Alpine, Mono	7 hr

Nearby

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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.