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Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Elko, NV
NWS Elko, NV issued this flash flood warning at May 16, 1996, 7:31 AM PDT for Elko County, Eureka County, Nevada. It was in force for 70 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 16, 1996, 7:31 AM PDT (14:31 UTC)
- Expired
- May 16, 1996, 8:41 AM PDT
- In force
- 70 min
- Issued by
- NWS Elko, NV
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Elko County, NV, Eureka County, NV
The nearest sounding before it
Elko, NV (KLKN), launched 12:00Z, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 140 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
- 197 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -27 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 684 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 37 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 59 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KEKO 161425 RRA FFWEKO NVC011-007-161730- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV 731 AM PDT THU MAY 16 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ELKO HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1030 AM PDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...S... IN CENTRAL NEVADA ...NORTHERN EUREKA COUNTY IN NORTHEAST NEVADA ...SOUTHWESTERN ELKO COUNTY SPOTTERS AT CARLIN REPORTED UP TO 0.77 INCHES FELL BETWEEN 645 AND 720 AM THIS MORNING. A LINE OF HEAVY SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING NORTHEAST THROUGH SOUTHWEST ELKO COUNTY THROUGH THE TOWN OF CARLIN. THIS LINE OF STORMS WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE NORTHEAST AND WILL PRODUCE PERIODS OF HEAVY RAIN IN THE TOWNS OF ELKO AND SPRING CREEK BETWEEN 730 AND 830 AM. LOWLAND AND STREET FLOODING IS EXPECTED THROUGH 1000 AM THIS MORNING IN ELKO SPRING CREEK SOON WHILE FLASH FLOODING HAS ALREADY HAPPENED IN AREAS AROUND CARLIN. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. &
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Elko, NV wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at May 16, 12:48 AM PDT, 6 hours 43 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 16, 12:48 AM PDT, 6 hours 43 minutes before
NORTHERN GREAT BASIN FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV 200 AM PDT THU MAY 16 1996 KLRX SHOWS SRN/WRN EDGE OF PCPN AREA ON LINE FM WMC TO P68. MOVMNT IS SWIFT AND WLD EXPCT PCPN ENDING AT EKO BETWEEN 2 AND 3 AM. NXT BATCH OF PCPN TO W IN CA MOVG NE AND SHD MV THRU ZN6 LATER THIS AM. ETA/NGM DIFFR WITH NXT S/W MOVG TINTO CNTRL CA ATTM. ETA SPLITS IT THIS AM BU NO EVIDNC THIS HAPPENING ATTM PER IR/WV IMGRY. SO IF I BLV NGM SOLN THAT WLD PUT VRY HI INSTABILITY OVR EKO THIS AFTN PER LI AND TT. S/W WK OVR NV THIS AFTN BUT H2 SHOWS APPRCHNG JET WITH LFQ IN AREA AS WELL AS WKR JET OVR ERN ID. SO THIS SCENARIO MAY PRODUCE SOME GULLY WASHERS ACRS NRN/CNTRL NV THIS AFTN. WL KEEP CUURNT POPS AS IS. WL CHG WORDING FOR TODAY TO REFLCT POSSIBLE HEAVY RAIN FM TSTMS. LONG RANGE STILL HAS ZNL FLO ACRS PAC SO CONTD IN/OUT PCPN CHCS AND MODERATE TEMPS. EKO843 BYRNE
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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.