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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 8, NWS Reno, NV
NWS Reno, NV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 1, 2021, 7:03 PM PDT for Pershing County, Washoe County, Nevada. It was in force for 27 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 1, 2021, 7:03 PM PDT (02:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 1, 2021, 7:30 PM PDT
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Reno, NV
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 50.0 mph
Counties Pershing County, NV, Washoe County, NV
The radar
The Reno radar (KRGX), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:04 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Reno, NV (KREV), launched 00:00Z, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 129 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
- 204 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -25 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2730 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 31 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 69 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
556 WUUS55 KREV 020203 SVRREV NVC027-031-020230- /O.NEW.KREV.SV.W.0008.210802T0203Z-210802T0230Z/ BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED Severe Thunderstorm Warning National Weather Service Reno NV 703 PM PDT Sun Aug 1 2021 The National Weather Service in Reno has issued a * Severe Thunderstorm Warning for... Central Washoe County in western Nevada... West central Pershing County in west central Nevada... * Until 730 PM PDT. * At 702 PM PDT, a severe thunderstorm was located 15 miles south of Gerlach-Empire, or 18 miles south of Gerlach, moving north at 15 mph. HAZARD...Quarter size hail. SOURCE...Radar indicated. IMPACT...Damage to vehicles is expected. * Locations impacted include... Gerlach-Empire, Empire Airport, Kumiva Peak and Empire. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a building. Torrential rainfall is occurring with this storm, and may lead to flash flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded roadways. && LAT...LON 4027 11922 4034 11944 4061 11937 4051 11903 TIME...MOT...LOC 0202Z 201DEG 12KT 4038 11930 HAIL...1.00IN WIND...<50MPH $$ CJ
The office that day
Everything else NWS Reno, NV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 1, 7:16 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | REV | Washoe | 44 min |
| Aug 1, 7:30 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | REV | Pershing, Washoe | 30 min |
| Aug 1, 7:57 PM PDT | Areal Flood Advisory | REV | Pershing, Washoe | 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.