Hail, Washoe
- When
- July 21, 5:30 PM PST
- Where
- Washoe County, 2 mi N of Sparks
- Measured
- 0.88 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 39.583, -119.767
Hail in Nevada, July 21, 2005
1 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
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 21, 3:10 PM PST, 2 hours 20 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 21, 3:10 PM PST, 2 hours 20 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RENO NV 410 PM PDT THU JUL 21 2005 .UPDATE... A LARGE BREAK IN THE CLOUD COVER ALLOWED TEMPS TO REACH 100 DEGREES AT THE RENO AIRPORT SHORTLY AFTER 4 PM...SO THE RECORD SETTING 100 DEGREE STREAK CONTINUES IN RENO FOR THE 10TH STRAIGHT DAY. MJD && .PREV DISCUSSION... .SHORT TERM... MID AND HIGH LEVEL CLOUDS ARE TRACKING NORTH OF I-80 AND CLEARING THE SOUTHERN ZONES. THIS IS ALLOWING AFTERNOON HEATING TO POP THUNDERSTORMS. WITH THE UNSTABLE 12Z SOUNDING WILL SEE THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOP OVER THE NORTHERN AREAS ONCE THE MID AND HIGH LEVEL CLOUDS PASS. TEMPERATURES ARE REBOUNDING NICELY DESPITE THIS MORNINGS CLOUD COVER WITH HIGHS TOPPING 100 IN SOME NEVADA VALLEYS. LOW OFF THE NORTHERN CALIFORNIA COAST WILL MOVE INTO OREGON TONIGHT AND PRODUCE A DRIER AND STABLE SOUTHWEST FLOW NORTH OF I-80 TOMORROW. THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE LIMITED TO MONO AND MINERAL...BUT COULD SEE ONE OR TWO CELLS IN THE FAR EASTERN PORTIONS OF PERSHING AND CHURCHILL COUNTIES. RIDGE BUILDS BACK FOR THE WEEKEND BUT REMAINS SOMEWHAT FLAT ALLOWING THE WESTERLIES TO INHIBIT CONVECTION OVER MOST OF THE FORECAST AREA. NEVADA VALLEY HIGHS WILL REMAIN ABOVE NORMAL WITH UPPER 90S AND A FEW LOCATIONS CRACKING 100. THE SIERRAS WILL REMAIN WARM AS WELL WITH HIGHS IN THE 80S. BRONG .LONG TERM...MONDAY THROUGH THURSDAY... A MONDAY A VORT MAX IS PROGGED TO MOVE INTO OREGON. THIS SYSTEM SHOULD BE FAR ENOUGH NORTH TO NOT HAVE MUCH EFFECT ON OUR WEATHER. ON TUESDAY THE FLATTENED RIDGE OVER THE SWRN CONUS STARTS TO BUILD AGAIN WITH 500 MB HEIGHTS INCREASING TO 591 DAM BOTH TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY. THUS TEMPERATURES ON TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY SHOULD BE SIMILAR WITH AFTERNOON HIGHS IN THE UPPER 90S TO NEAR 100 IN WESTERN NEVADA VALLEYS. AS A TROUGH APPROACHES ON THURSDAY INCREASING CLOUD COVER SHOULD MODERATE TEMPERATURES SOME. DAYTIME TEMPERATURES WILL BE NEAR NORMAL FOR LATE-JULY WITH HIGHS IN THE MID 90S IN WESTERN NEVADA. HOWEVER NIGHTTIME LOWS WILL CONTINUE ABOVE NORMAL WITH READINGS IN THE LOW TO MID 60S.. OHARA && .AVIATION... VFR CONDITIONS TO CONTINUE THROUGH FRIDAY. MAIN CONVECTION IS STILL SOUTH OF THE KREV CWFA THIS AFTERNOON. SOUTHERLY FLOW IS ADVECTING MOISTURE INTO THE REGION SO...WITH AFTERNOON HEATING CONTRIBUTING TO LOW LEVEL INSTABILITY...EXPECT TCU/S AND CB/S TO CONTINUE TO SPREAD NORTH. OHARA && .REV WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... .NV...NONE. .CA...NONE. &&
The radar
The Reno radar (KRGX), 32 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 01:28 UTC.
Event by event
1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
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
- Heat in Missouri, July 21 to 26, 2005
- Heat in Kentucky, July 21 to 26, 2005
- Heat in Illinois, July 21 to 26, 2005
- Hail in North Dakota, July 21, 2005
- Heat in Kansas, July 21 to 25, 2005
- Hail in North Dakota, July 21, 2005
- Lightning Strike in Minnesota, July 21, 2005
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Indiana, July 21, 2005
- Hail and Damaging Winds in South Dakota, July 21, 2005
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Georgia, July 21, 2005
- Lightning Strikes in Indiana, July 21, 2005
- Damaging Winds and Lightning Strikes in Mississippi, July 21, 2005
More
Every storm in Nevada in 2005Every state in 2005This day in weather historyWarnings 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: 5470781.