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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 1, NWS Elko, NV

June 11, 1996Elko County, White Pine County, Nevada

NWS Elko, NV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 11, 1996, 2:15 PM PDT for Elko County, White Pine County, Nevada. It was in force for 60 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
Jun 11, 1996, 2:15 PM PDT (21:15 UTC)
Expired
Jun 11, 1996, 3:15 PM PDT
In force
60 min
Issued by
NWS Elko, NV
Area
Whole counties

Counties Elko County, NV, White Pine County, NV

The nearest sounding before it

Elko, NV (KLKN), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 101 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Elko, NV at 12:00Z on 1996-06-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Elko, NV at 12:00Z on 1996-06-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -52 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
3167 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-52 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
5 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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.

NWS Elko, NV wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 11, 1:41 AM PDT, 12 hours 34 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 11, 1:41 AM PDT, 12 hours 34 minutes before
NORTHERN GREAT BASIN FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV
140 AM PDT TUE JUN 11 1996

IR PIX SHOW FEW CLDS LINGERING IN THE E/CNTRL FRM AFTN CONV WITH A FEW
DRIFTING INTO NW NV AHEAD OF BOUNDRY WITH WV PIX SHOWING WK S/W MOVING
EXITING NRN NV AND NEXT S/W MOVING TO NEAR SFO.  CNTRL NV TO BE THE
BEST AREA OF TSTM TDA AS THETA E RIDGE AND LI TO NEAR ZERO ACRSS THAT
AS BOUNDRY LAYER WINDS INDICATE CONV AND WITH SW FLOW ANY STORMS THAT
DVLP SOUTH SPRD NORTH.   THETA E AND ZERO LIS ALL SHFT TO THE NORTH ON
WED AS NEXT WK S/W TO MOVE THRU.  H70 MSTR REMAIN LOW WITH 20-30 BUT H5
MSTR SHOWS INCR OVR THE EAST TO ARND 40 PCT TDA. TEMPS CONT TO RUN UNDER
GUIDANCE.  EKO1-1.  LOHMANN

The office that day

Everything else NWS Elko, NV issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 11, 3:06 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLKNElko69 min

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.