A small thunderstorm dropped a severe outflow gust on highway 50 between Stagecoach and Silver Springs.
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A small thunderstorm dropped a severe outflow gust on highway 50 between Stagecoach and Silver Springs.
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 Jun 13, 12:54 PM PST, 1 hour 8 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RENO NV 154 PM PDT SAT JUN 13 2015 .SYNOPSIS... A WARM AND MOSTLY DRY PATTERN IS EXPECTED FOR THE WEEKEND AND INTO THE UPCOMING WEEK. HIGH TEMPERATURES WILL WARM WELL INTO THE 90S FOR THE LOWER ELEVATIONS WITH 70S AND 80S IN THE SIERRA. AFTERNOON ZEPHYR BREEZES CAN BE EXPECTED EACH DAY, WITH SOME ENHANCEMENT MONDAY AND THEN AGAIN TOWARD THE END OF THE WORK WEEK. && .SHORT TERM... THE THREAT REMAINS THIS AFTERNOON FOR AN ISOLATED THUNDERSTORM OR TWO OVER MONO AND WESTERN MINERAL COUNTIES. HOWEVER, IT IS LOOKING QUITE A BIT DRIER AND MUCH LESS LIKELY AS OF THIS WRITING. OTHERWISE, FEW CHANGES MADE WITH A LIGHT WEST-SOUTHWEST FLOW INTO MID WEEK WITH A COUPLE SHORT WAVES MOVING INTO THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST. THE FIRST DOES SO TOMORROW MORNING WITH ONLY SLIGHT COOLING WHILE THE SECOND ON MONDAY AFTERNOON WILL INCREASE THE WINDS A BIT. ONE THING TO WATCH FOR BOTH DAYS WILL BE THE LASSEN CONVERGENCE ZONE WHICH MAY BECOME ACTIVE WITH ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS. THE NAM IS MORE AGGRESSIVE THAN THE GFS WITH ENSEMBLES NOT FAVORING ONE OVER THE OTHER. AT THIS POINT, WILL LEAVE GHOST POPS IN. THE OTHER CONCERN WILL BE WINDS MONDAY WITH PEAK GUSTS NEARING 30 MPH. WE MAY NEED A LAKE WIND ADVISORY FOR AREA LAKES THAT DAY, AT LEAST NORTH OF HIGHWAY 50 WHERE THE CORE OF STRONGEST MID-LEVEL WINDS WILL BE. WILL CONTINUE TO MONITOR. OTHERWISE, TEMPS WHILE COOLING SLIGHTLY INTO MONDAY WILL STILL REMAIN A FEW DEGREES ABOVE AVERAGE FOR MID-JUNE. WINDS SHOULD WEAKEN TUESDAY BEHIND THE MONDAY'S SYSTEM. .LONG TERM... STILL SOME UNCERTAINTY AS TO HOW FAR SOUTH THE JET WILL SAG FOR LATE WEEK. GFS/EC/ENSEMBLES HAVE BACKED OFF AGAIN AND ARE WARMER THAN THEY WERE OVERNIGHT. HAVE TRENDED ONLY SLIGHTLY BACK IN THIS DIRECTION. WOULD PREFER TO KEEP A MIDDLE OF THE ROAD IDEA FOR TEMPS AND WINDS RIGHT NOW WITH THE 00Z VS 12Z CYCLES BATTLING. IT WILL GIVE US MORE FLEXIBILITY GOING FORWARD AND AVOID ANY DRASTIC CHANGES TO THE FORECAST. WALLMANN && .AVIATION... LESS THAN 10 PCT CHANCE FOR -TSRA NEAR KMMH TIL 03Z AND NORTH OF SUSANVILLE 22-03Z SUNDAY. OTHERWISE VFR WITH SW-W WINDS 20-04Z WITH PEAK GUSTS 20-25 KTS. WALLMANN && .REV WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NV...NONE. CA...NONE. && FOR MORE INFORMATION FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE VISIT... HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/RENO (ALL LOWER CASE)
The Reno radar (KRGX), 43 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:03 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
A small, high based (likely above 12,000 ft AGL) thunderstorm produced the severe gust. The gust was recorded at a Nevada DOT site.
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