Name: Hail in Nevada, July 18, 2005
Start: 2005-07-18T15:10
End: 2005-07-18T15:10
Location: Nevada

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: None recorded
Crop damage: None recorded
Events: 1

Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before the first event, 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 the first event at Jul 18, 1:00 PM PST, 2 hours 10 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 18, 1:00 PM PST, 2 hours 10 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RENO NV
200 PM PDT MON JUL 18 2005

.SHORT TERM...MAIN FORECAST PROBLEM THIS EVENING WILL BE ISOLD
-TSRA MONO/MINERAL CTYS THIS EVENING. LAPS ANALYSIS SHOWS
MAIN INSTABILITY AXIS IN CNTRL NV WITH LIS AROUND -1 EXTENDING EAST
TOWARD SIERRAS. SFC CONVERGENCE ALONG THERMAL TROUGH AND 700MB
THETA-E AXIS SHOULD BE ENOUGH TO KEEP EVENING CONVECTION GOING. THE
GFS AND NAM KEEP TREND OF KEEPING STRONG UPPER HIGH POSITIONED OVER
SRN NV WITH INCRSNG WRLY FLOW ALOFT NRN NV. SOME CAPPING ALOFT
EVIDENT ON FCST SNDINGS BUT STILL ENOUGHT MID LVL MOISTURE AND
INSTABILITY TO KEEP SLGT CHC POPS SAME AREAS NEXT FEW DAYS. THE
UPPER RIDGE AXIS SHIFTS EAST ON WED WITH MORE MID LVL MOISTURE AND
SRLY FLOW ALOFT. THERE IS SOME CONCERN ABOUT WINDS NRN ZONES WED AS
THE UPPER TROUGH OFF SHORE LIFTS NE TOWARD NRN CA AND HAVE KEPT
HIGHER WINDS FROM REV NORTH. GFS CONTINUES TO MOISTEN AT MID LEVELS
RAPIDLY ON THUR WITH SOME WEAK VORT FEATURES ROTATING AROUND
THE UPPER RIDGE. AS THE PAC COAST TROUGH SHEARS NE THE PW INCREASES
TO 0.75 IN WITH A 50KT SPEED MAX ACROSS NRN CA INTO WCNTRL NV. THIS
APPEARS BEST CHC OF POPS IN SHORT TERM. MADE ONLY MINOR CHANGES TO
SHIFT POPS SLGTHLY FARTHER WEST THU. SLA

.LONG TERM...FRIDAY THROUGH MONDAY...
THERE IS STILL SOME UNCERTAINTY ON TIMING OF MOISTURE FROM EMILY
AND HOW FAR WEST IT WILL SHIFT. THE CURRENT GFS AND ECMWF TEND TO
SHUNT MOISTURE FARTHER EAST WITH DRIER WRLY FLOW ALOFT AGAIN FOR AT
LEAST NRN AND WRN ZONES. HAVE MADE NO CHANGES TO EXTENDED. SLA

&&

.AVIATION...
VFR CONDITIONS. ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS UNTIL 03Z CENTRAL NV MAINLY
SOUTH OF A TVL-ELY LINE WITH CLOUD BASES 120-140.

&&

.REV WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
.NV...NONE.
.CA...NONE.
&&

The radar

The Reno radar (KRGX), 101 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:10 UTC.

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Douglas

When: July 18, 3:10 PM PST
Where: Douglas County, 5 mi S of Gardnerville
Measured: 0.75 in hail
Reported by: TRAINED SPOTTER
Coordinates: 38.867, -119.733

What these are

Hail: Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.

After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.

The same day elsewhere

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Every storm in Nevada in 2005 Every state in 2005 This day in weather history Warnings in Nevada, July 2005

Sources

NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5470780.