Alert archive / Nevada / Flash Flood Warnings in 1996
Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Elko, NV
NWS Elko, NV issued this flash flood warning at May 27, 1996, 3:30 PM PDT for White Pine County, Nevada. It was in force for 2 hr. 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 27, 1996, 3:30 PM PDT (22:30 UTC)
- Expired
- May 27, 1996, 5:30 PM PDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Elko, NV
- Area
- Whole counties
County White Pine County, NV
The nearest sounding before it
Elko, NV (KLKN), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 170 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1779 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -37 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 40 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 272234 FFWEKO NVC033-280030- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV 330 PM PDT MON MAY 27 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ELKO HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 530 PM PDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...... IN EAST CENTRAL NEVADA ...CENTRAL WHITE PINE COUNTY NEVADA HIGHWAY PATROL REPORTS HEAVY RAIN IN THE MURRY SUMMIT AREA ALONG HIGHWAY 6 JUST SOUTHWEST OF ELY. ESTIMATED RAINFALL RATES OF 3 INCHES PER HOUR WERE REPORTED ALONG WITH PEA SIZE HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS. IN ADDITION 2 INCHES OF WATER AND SLUSH WERE REPORTED CVOERING THE HIGHWAY. 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. & ECC
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 27, 1:57 PM PDT, 1 hour 33 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 27, 1:57 PM PDT, 1 hour 33 minutes before
NORTHERN GREAT BASIN FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV 157 PM PDT MON MAY 27 1996 CRRNT KLRX RDR SHWS BAND OF R-/R ROTATING ARND UPPR LOW WI MAIN DIFLNT AREA MVNG INTO ID/UT. WVPR SHWS SOME DRYING BTWN 1ST PCPN AREA AND MAIN H5 LOW WHERE PVA AREA IS KICKING OFF CNTRL NV TSTMS. MDLS SIMILAR IN MVNG H7 LOW ALNG ERN NV BDRS INTO UT BY 12Z WHILE H5 LOW BOTTOMS OUT NEAR LAS BEFORE OPENING AND MVNG EWRD. PLENTY OF DEEP LYRD MSTR AND BROAD SYNOPTIC UVV ARND SYS SHD KEEP POPS UP OVR ERN NV TNITE. BY 12Z TUE S/WV RDGING MOVES INTO ERN NV TO CLEAR SOME CLDS OUT OF NE BY AFTN. ATMSPHERE DOES REMAIN SOMEWHAT MOIST AND UNSTBLE AS PER MSO ETA SO WL KEEP CHC POPS MENTION WI SOME TRW OVRb EAST. TEMPS/THCNKSS VALUES REMAIN SIMILAR ON TUES BUT WI LESS CLD CVR SO WL KEEP NEAR GUID VALUES. EKO632. APFEL
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.