Alert archive / Nevada / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 11, NWS Elko, NV
NWS Elko, NV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 21, 1996, 6:25 PM PDT for Elko County, Nevada. It was in force for 35 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 21, 1996, 6:25 PM PDT (01:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 21, 1996, 7:00 PM PDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Elko, NV
- Area
- Whole counties
County Elko County, NV
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 21, 6:25 PM PDT | Hail 1 | Contact, NV |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The nearest sounding before it
Salt Lake City I, UT (KSLC), launched 00:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 293 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
- 929 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -96 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2753 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 67 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 52 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 250 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 10.6
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.