Alert archive / Nevada / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2021
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS Reno, NV
NWS Reno, NV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 1, 2021, 7:30 PM PDT for Pershing County, Washoe County, Nevada. It was in force for 30 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, 7:30 PM PDT (02:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 1, 2021, 8:00 PM PDT
- In force
- 30 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), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:31 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 00:00Z, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 122 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.
041 WUUS55 KREV 020230 SVRREV NVC027-031-020300- /O.NEW.KREV.SV.W.0009.210802T0230Z-210802T0300Z/ BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED Severe Thunderstorm Warning National Weather Service Reno NV 730 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 800 PM PDT. * At 730 PM PDT, a severe thunderstorm was located 18 miles south of Gerlach-Empire, or 21 miles south of Gerlach, moving east at 10 mph. HAZARD...Quarter size hail. SOURCE...Radar indicated. IMPACT...Damage to vehicles is expected. * Locations impacted include... Kumiva Peak. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a building. Large hail and damaging winds and continuous cloud to ground lightning is occurring with this storm. Move indoors immediately. Lightning is one of nature's leading killers. Remember, if you can hear thunder, you are close enough to be struck by lightning. Torrential rainfall is occurring with this storm, and may lead to flash flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded roadways. && LAT...LON 4024 11934 4041 11939 4051 11909 4024 11902 TIME...MOT...LOC 0230Z 258DEG 8KT 4035 11927 HAIL...1.00IN WIND...<50MPH $$ CJ
1 follow-up statement
956
WWUS55 KREV 020302
SVSREV
Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Reno NV
802 PM PDT Sun Aug 1 2021
NVC027-031-020312-
/O.EXP.KREV.SV.W.0009.000000T0000Z-210802T0300Z/
Washoe NV-Pershing NV-
802 PM PDT Sun Aug 1 2021
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR CENTRAL WASHOE AND WEST
CENTRAL PERSHING COUNTIES HAS EXPIRED...
The storm which prompted the warning has weakened below severe
limits, and no longer poses an immediate threat to life or property.
Therefore, the warning has been allowed to expire. However small
hail, gusty winds, and heavy rain are still possible with this
thunderstorm.
LAT...LON 4024 11934 4041 11939 4051 11909 4024 11902
TIME...MOT...LOC 0302Z 258DEG 8KT 4036 11918
$$
CJThe office that day
Everything else NWS Reno, NV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 1, 7:03 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | REV | Pershing, Washoe | 27 min |
| Aug 1, 7:16 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | REV | Washoe | 44 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.