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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 15, NWS Las Vegas, NV

July 13, 2021Lincoln County, Nye County, Nevada

NWS Las Vegas, NV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 13, 2021, 4:19 PM PDT for Lincoln County, Nye County, Nevada. It was in force for 56 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: Jul 13, 2021, 4:19 PM PDT (23:19 UTC)
Expired: Jul 13, 2021, 5:15 PM PDT
In force: 56 min
Issued by: NWS Las Vegas, NV
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Lincoln County, NV, Nye County, NV

The radar

The Cedar City radar (KICX), 190 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:20 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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

Las Vegas, NV (KVEF), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 190 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: 492 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -439 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2245 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -83 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -7 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted.

667 
WUUS55 KVEF 132319
SVRVEF
NVC017-023-140015-
/O.NEW.KVEF.SV.W.0015.210713T2319Z-210714T0015Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service Las Vegas NV
419 PM PDT Tue Jul 13 2021

The National Weather Service in Las Vegas has issued a

* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
  Central Lincoln County in south central Nevada...
  Eastern Nye County in south central Nevada...

* Until 515 PM PDT.

* At 418 PM PDT, a severe thunderstorm was located 20 miles west of
  Pioche, moving east at 40 mph.

  HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts.

  SOURCE...Radar indicated.

  IMPACT...Expect damage to roofs and trees.

* Locations impacted include...
  Ursine, Pioche, Hiko, Rachel, Meadow Valley Campground, Panaca,
  Echo Canyon State Park and Cathedral Gorge State Park.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.

&&

LAT...LON 3828 11453 3797 11415 3770 11428 3742 11588
      3784 11589 3805 11562 3805 11500 3828 11500
      3837 11471
TIME...MOT...LOC 2318Z 290DEG 37KT 3803 11481 

HAIL...<.75IN
WIND...60MPH
 
$$

CP

1 follow-up statement

666 
WWUS55 KVEF 140008
SVSVEF

Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Las Vegas NV
508 PM PDT Tue Jul 13 2021

NVC017-023-140017-
/O.EXP.KVEF.SV.W.0015.000000T0000Z-210714T0015Z/
Lincoln NV-Nye NV-
508 PM PDT Tue Jul 13 2021

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR CENTRAL LINCOLN AND NYE
COUNTIES WILL EXPIRE AT 515 PM PDT...
                
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 will be allowed to expire.  However gusty
winds up to 50 mph are still possible with this thunderstorm.

LAT...LON 3828 11453 3797 11415 3770 11428 3742 11588
      3784 11589 3805 11562 3805 11500 3828 11500
      3837 11471
TIME...MOT...LOC 0007Z 290DEG 37KT 3787 11425 

$$

CP

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 12, 9:50 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	VEF	Clark	55 min
Jul 12, 10:28 PM PDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	VEF	Clark	3 hr
Jul 12, 10:44 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	VEF	Clark	46 min
Jul 12, 11:27 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	VEF	Clark	48 min

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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.