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Flood Watch 2, NWS Reno, NV
NWS Reno, NV issued this flood watch at Jul 19, 2026, 11:41 AM PDT for Lyon County, Mineral County, Nevada; Mono County, California. It took effect at Jul 20, 2026, 2:00 PM PDT. It was in force for 9 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 19, 2026, 11:41 AM PDT (18:41 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jul 20, 2026, 2:00 PM PDT
- Expired
- Jul 20, 2026, 11:00 PM PDT
- In force
- 9 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Reno, NV
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Mono County, CA, Lyon County, NV, Mineral County, NV
The radar
The Reno radar (KRGX), 150 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:42 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Las Vegas, NV (KVEF), launched 12:00Z, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 375 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3078 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 61 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 112 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
Nearby
Flood Watches in Nevada, 2026Flood Watches in California, 2026Every flood watch in 2026
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.