Alert archive / Nevada / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Elko, NV
NWS Elko, NV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 22, 1995, 11:51 AM PDT for Elko County, Nevada. It was in force for 39 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 22, 1995, 11:51 AM PDT (18:51 UTC)
- Expired
- May 22, 1995, 12:30 PM PDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Elko, NV
- Area
- Whole counties
County Elko County, NV
The nearest sounding before it
Ely/Yelland Fld, NV (KELY), launched 12:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 213 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -150 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1711 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 104 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 141 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KEKO 221851 SVREKO NVC007-221930- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV 1151 AM PDT MON MAY 22 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ELKO HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1230 PM PDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...... IN NORTHEAST NEVADA ...NORTHEASTERN ELKO COUNTY THE WEATHER SPOTTER IN WELLS IS REPORTING LARGE HAIL FALLING AND COVERING THE GROUND AT THIS TIME. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING, PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DON'T USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS. & NNNN
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 22, 11:40 AM PDT, 11 minutes before
NVZ006-230600- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV 1135 AM PDT MON MAY 22 1995 ...THUNDERSTORMS ARE DEVELOPING ACROSS NORTHEAST NEVADA... AT 1130 AM SALT LAKE CITY RADAR WAS SHOWING THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING AT 20 MPH. BRIEF HEAVY DOWNPOURS, GUSTY WINDS, AND SMALL HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS. BE AWARE OF THE DANGER OF LOCAL FLOODING CAUSED BY THUNDERSTORM RAINS. IF THREATENING WEATHER DEVELOPS OR APPROACHES YOUR LOCATION SEEK SHELTER IN A STRONG BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
Special weather statement, May 22, 11:43 AM PDT, 8 minutes before
NVZ006-230600- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV 1135 AM PDT MON MAY 22 1995 ...THUNDERSTORMS ARE DEVELOPING ACROSS NORTHEAST NEVADA... AT 1130 AM SALT LAKE CITY RADAR WAS SHOWING THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING FROM NEAR ELKO TO NORTH OF ELY TO NEAR WENDOVER...MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. BRIEF HEAVY DOWNPOURS, GUSTY WINDS, AND SMALL HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS. BE AWARE OF THE DANGER OF LOCAL FLOODING CAUSED BY THUNDERSTORM RAINS. IF THREATENING WEATHER DEVELOPS OR APPROACHES YOUR LOCATION SEEK SHELTER IN A STRONG BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
Nearby
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.