Alert archive / Nevada / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Elko, NV
NWS Elko, NV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 1, 1995, 2:47 PM PDT for Elko County, Nevada. It was in force for 58 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 1, 1995, 2:47 PM PDT (21:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 1, 1995, 3:45 PM PDT
- In force
- 58 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, 9.8 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
- 3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -224 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1670 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 27 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 65 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 012147 SVREKO NVC007-012245- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV 247 PM PDT THU JUN 1 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ELKO HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 345 PM PDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...... IN NORTHEAST NEVADA ...SOUTHWESTERN ELKO COUNTY AT 240 PM PDT A STORM SPOTTER REPORTS THAT A THUNDERSTORM IS PRODUCING HAIL THE SIZE OF QUARTERS OR SLIGHTLY LARGER THAN 3/4'S OF AN INCH. THIS STORM IS PART OF A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS THAT EXTENDS FROM 20 MILES NORTH OF CURRIE SOUTHWEST TO ABOUT 20 MILES NORTHWEST OF AUSTIN. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTH AT 15 MPH. BE AWARE OF THE DANGER OFN LOCAL FLOODING CAUSED BY THUNDERSTORM RAINS AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING. IF THREATENING WEATHER DEVELOPS OR APPROACHES YOUR LOCATIONS SEEK SHELTER IN A STRONG BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. ECC 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, Jun 1, 1:05 PM PDT, 1 hour 42 minutes before
NVZ006-312300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV 1255 PM PDT THU JUN 01 1995 ...THUNDERSTORMS ARE DEVELOPING ACROSS NORTHEAST NEVADA... AT 1250 PM BATTLE MOUNTAIN RADAR WAS SHOWING A THUNDERSTORM WITH HEAVY RAIN ABOUT HALF WAY BETWEEN AUSTIN AND EUREKA. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTH NORTHEAST AT ABOUT 15 MPH. WITH AFTERNOON HEATING SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE INTO THIS EVENING OVER NORTHAST NEVADA. HAIL..STRONG GUSTY WINDS..HEAVY RAIN AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE. BE AWARE OF THE DANGER OF LOCAL FLOODING CAUSED BY THUNDERSTORM RAINS..AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING. IF THREATENING WEATHER DEVELOPS OR APPROACHES YOUR LOCATION SEEK SHELTER IN A STRONG BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. CLARK
Special weather statement, Jun 1, 1:07 PM PDT, 1 hour 40 minutes before
NVZ006-012200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV 1255 PM PDT THU JUN 01 1995 ...THUNDERSTORMS ARE DEVELOPING ACROSS NORTHEAST NEVADA... AT 1250 PM BATTLE MOUNTAIN RADAR WAS SHOWING A THUNDERSTORM WITH HEAVY RAIN ABOUT HALF WAY BETWEEN AUSTIN AND EUREKA. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTH NORTHEAST AT ABOUT 15 MPH. WITH AFTERNOON HEATING SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE INTO THIS EVENING OVER NORTHAST NEVADA. HAIL..STRONG GUSTY WINDS..HEAVY RAIN AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE. BE AWARE OF THE DANGER OF LOCAL FLOODING CAUSED BY THUNDERSTORM RAINS..AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING. IF THREATENING WEATHER DEVELOPS OR APPROACHES YOUR LOCATION SEEK SHELTER IN A STRONG BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. CLARK
Special weather statement, Jun 1, 2:23 PM PDT, 24 minutes before
NVZ006-012300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV 215 PM PDT THU JUN 01 1995 ...THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS NORTHEAST NEVADA... AT 210 PM BATTLE MOUNTAIN RADAR WAS SHOWING A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS SOME WITH HEAVY RAIN FROM ABOUT 15 MILES EAST OF CURRIE WEST SOUTH WEST TO ABOUT 20 MILES WEST OF AUSTIN. MOVEMENT OF THESE STORMS WAS TO THE NORTH AT ABOUT 15 MPH. WITH CONTINUED AFTERNOON HEATING SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE INTO THIS EVENING OVER NORTHAST NEVADA. HAIL..STRONG GUSTY WINDS..HEAVY RAIN AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE. BE AWARE OF THE DANGER OF LOCAL FLOODING CAUSED BY THUNDERSTORM RAINS..AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING. IF THREATENING WEATHER DEVELOPS OR APPROACHES YOUR LOCATION SEEK SHELTER IN A STRONG BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. CLARK
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Nevada, 1995Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1995
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.