1 dust devil, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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 Aug 3, 2:16 PM PST, 1 hour 38 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RENO NV 316 PM PDT THU AUG 3 2006 .SHORT TERM... AN OUTRAGEOUS CAP WAS NOTED IN THE RENO SOUNDING AT 12Z. WITH THE 12Z SOUNDING AND JUDGING FROM THE CURRENT FLAT CUMULUS NOTED IN WEB CAMS AND IN THE VISIBLE SATELLITE...WE ARE GOING TO HAVE A HARD TIME BREAKING THROUGH TO GET ISOLATED SHOWERS OR THUNDERSTORMS THIS EVENING. HOWEVER...IT IS ONLY MID AFTERNOON AND I HAVE BEEN BURNED IN THE PAST BY EARLY EVENING CONVECTION AS A WEAK ZEPHYR KICKS UP THE CONVERGENCE...SO I WILL LEAVE IT AS ISOLATED. IN ANY CASE... ONLY THE MOST UNLUCKY PEOPLE WILL GET HIT WITH A SHOWER OR BRIEF THUNDERSTORM THIS EVENING. TONIGHT...I HAVE REMOVED THE WEATHER MENTION AFTER 06Z...AS THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NOTHING EVIDENT IN THE WATER VAPOR TO INDICATE ANY CHANCE OF CONVECTION LATE TONIGHT (UNLIKE LAST NIGHTS IMPULSE). FRIDAY...THE REGION WILL BE UNDER LIGHT SOUTHERLY FLOW ALOFT AS AN UPPER LOW WEST OF CAPE MENDOCINO DROPS TO ALONG THE CALIFORNIA COAST. WHILE LITTLE CHANGES IN THE OVERALL ATMOSPHERIC PROFILE FROM THURSDAY TO FRIDAY...CONVECTIVE DEVELOPMENT SHOULD BE A BIT MORE VIGOROUS THAN TODAY AS TODAYS CAP GETS ERODED BY 2 DAYS OF SOLAR HEATING. FRIDAY NIGHT...I HAVE LEFT A SLIGHT CHANCE OF SHOWERS OR STORMS AS THE GFS THROWS WEAK 300 MB DEFORMATION AT THE NORTHWEST PORTION OF OUR CWA AHEAD OF A WEAK IMPULSE CURRENTLY OFF THE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA COAST. AS THE GFS ALSO DEVELOP LIGHT PRECIP AND MOVES IT NORTH THROUGH LASSEN COUNTY LATE FRIDAY NIGHT...I CANNOT IGNORE THE POSSIBILITY FOR ISOLATED NOCTURNAL CONVECTION. SATURDAY WILL FEATURE ISOLATED TO SCATTERED (ALONG SIERRA) PRECIP COVERAGE A SOUTHERLY FLOW CONTINUES AHEAD OF THE CUTOFF LOW NEAR OR A BIT OFF THE CENTRAL CALIFORNIA COAST. SATURDAY NIGHT...I WAS ONCE AGAIN TOO UNCERTAIN TO REMOVE POPS ENTIRELY AFTER MIDNIGHT...WITH LINGERING SLIGHT CHANCE POPS FOR LASSEN COUNTY. SUNDAY AND SUNDAY NIGHT LOOK LIKE THE MAIN EVENT AS THE CUTOFF UPPER LOW SLOWLY BEGINS TO EJECT INTO NORTHERN CALIFORNIA. THE SLOWER SOLUTIONS AMONG MODELS WERE PREFERRED (SEEMS REASONABLE) BY HPC THIS MORNING...SO I TRIED TO SLOW DOWN THE WEATHER AHEAD OF THE EXITING UPPER LOW ACCORDINGLY (SLOWER THAN THE 12Z GFS...MORE LIKE THE 00Z EC AND 06Z GFS). I HAVE UPPED POPS OVER NORTHERN WASHOE COUNTY THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT...AS THEY WILL BE IN THE UPPER RIGHT QUADRANT OF THE EXITING LOW (AS WILL LASSEN). I WOULDNT BE SURPRISED TO SEE AN MCS MOVE OVERNIGHT FROM NEAR LAKE TAHOE INTO FAR NORTHEAST CALIFORNIA AS THE FORCING MOVES NORTH AHEAD OF THE EXITING UPPER LOW. SNYDER .LONG TERM...MONDAY THROUGH THURSDAY... PROGRESSIVE PATTERN IN THE LONG TERM. ON MONDAY THE MODELS SHOW AN UPPER TROUGH MOVING ACROSS NRN CALIFORNIA AND INTO THE PACIFIC NW. AS MENTIONED IN THIS MORNINGS DISCUSSION...THE UPPER TROUGH TAKES ON A SLIGHT NEGATIVE TILT ON MONDAY. THIS WILL HELP TO BACK THE UPPER LEVEL FLOW AROUND TO SELY. THIS SHOULD AID IN MOISTURE ADVECTION AND...WITH THE UPPER DIFFLUENCE OVER THE NRN SIERRA AND NWRN NEVADA AND THE UPPER DYNAMICS NEAR THE LOW...WILL KEEP A SLIGHT CHANCE TSRA IN THE NRN ZONES FOR LATE MONDAY. ON TUESDAY THE UPPER TROUGH CONTINUES TO FILL AND MOVES TO CNTRL IDAHO BY 00Z WEDNESDAY. WITH THIS SYSTEM MOVING TO THE EAST...AND THE RIDGE STARTING TO BUILD BACK NORTH...WILL KEEP TUESDAY DRY. A WEAK SHORTWAVE IS PROGGED TO APPROACH THE CNTRL SIERRA ON WEDNESDAY. SLIGHT CHANCE TSRA IS ALREADY IN THE FORECAST FOR WEDNESDAY AFTN AND EVENING AND WILL MAKE NO CHANGES TO POPS OR COVERAGE FOR THIS PERIOD. ON THURSDAY THE VORT MAX SHEARS OUT AS IT MOVES EAST. WITH THE FLAT RIDGE OVER THE SRN CONUS AND EXTENDING INTO THE WRN GREAT BASIN WILL KEEP THURSDAYS FORECAST DRY. OHARA && .AVIATION... VFR CONDITIONS THROUGH FRIDAY. ISOLD TSTMS POSSIBLE OVER CNRTL SIERRA...AND MINERAL COUNTY IN NEVADA...THIS EVENING THROUGH 04Z. OHARA && .REV WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NV...NONE. CA...NONE. &&
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 dust devil. Local standard time, as filed.
Nevada Highway Patrol reported a large dust devil just south of Interstate 80, two miles west of Ocala. The dust devil was reported to be the diameter of a football field.
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