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Special Weather Statement, NWS Reno, NV

June 4, 2021Churchill County, Mineral County, Nevada; Mono County, California

NWS Reno, NV issued this special weather statement at Jun 4, 2021, 2:10 PM PDT for Churchill County, Mineral County, Nevada; Mono County, California. It was in force for 110 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: Jun 4, 2021, 2:10 PM PDT (21:10 UTC)
Expired: Jun 4, 2021, 4:00 PM PDT
In force: 110 min
Issued by: NWS Reno, NV

Counties Mono County, CA, Churchill County, NV, Mineral County, NV

The radar

The Reno radar (KRGX), 157 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:13 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Reno, NV (KREV), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 107 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 3379 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 11 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 25 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at Jun 4, 2:00 PM PDT, 10 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 4, 2:00 PM PDT, 10 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 4, 2:10 PM PDT, 0 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 3, 5:21 PM PDT	Dust Storm Warning	REV	Churchill, Pershing	54 min
Jun 3, 6:09 PM PDT	Dust Storm Advisory	REV	Churchill, Pershing	66 min
Jun 4, 1:26 PM PDT	Fire Weather Watch	REV	Churchill, Douglas, Lyon, Mineral, Pershing, Storey and 1 more	22 hr
Jun 4, 1:26 PM PDT	Fire Weather Watch	REV	Churchill, Douglas, Lyon, Mineral, Pershing, Storey and 1 more	22 hr
Jun 4, 1:54 PM PDT	Lake Wind Advisory	REV	Churchill, Douglas, Lyon, Mineral, Pershing, Storey and 1 more	30 hr

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Nevada, 2021 Special Weather Statements in California, 2021 Every special weather statement in 2021

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.