Nevada Supercells

[Dann Cianca]

The RENO NWS has issued a report on the severe weather that moved through Nevada on July 21st. There were several tornado reports that day and I'm surprised (except for a little mention in the Maine Tornadoes thread) that it didn't get much attention on here.

Here is the report.

 

[MatthewCarman]

The RENO NWS has issued a report on the severe weather that moved through Nevada on July 21st. There were several tornado reports that day and I'm surprised (except for a little mention in the Maine Tornadoes thread) that it didn't get much attention on here.

Here is the report.

Reading the report they say there was no confirmed tornadoes and only funnel clouds were reported and I do not see any tornado reports on the SPC reports page for July 1st. Where did you see tornadoes were reported?

 

[Jason Caster]

I was following the storms on noaa's site that day. I have some friends that live in Reno and it caught my interest. I saw a trained spotter report indicating a tornado on the ground in Churchill county on Spotter Network. Here is a pic of the tor warned area. It was exciting to see a tornado possibility so close from home (close being 6 hours away). But we don't get much action in Southern Oregon.

 

[Tim Vasquez]

Some radar frames for this event with topography and roads included:

2100Z
2130Z
2200Z
2230Z
2300Z
2330Z
0000Z

It's not as good as a time lapse radar image, but it's enough to show how the event progressed.

Tim

 

[Dann Cianca]

Reading the report they say there was no confirmed tornadoes and only funnel clouds were reported and I do not see any tornado reports on the SPC reports page for July 1st. Where did you see tornadoes were reported?

The reports are still on the page http://www.spc.noaa.gov/climo/reports/080721_rpts.html, although it went from three to two reports. I'm assuming they are still preliminary and Reno hasn't updated their survey yet.

 

[MatthewCarman]

The reports are still on the page http://www.spc.noaa.gov/climo/reports/080721_rpts.html, although it went from three to two reports. I'm assuming they are still preliminary and Reno hasn't updated their survey yet.

Thanks I was looking at the wrong day for the SPC storm reports. My mistake. Interesting but not suprising that NV can see tornado events such as this. I wonder how common is this?