Alert archive / Nevada / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 16, NWS Elko, NV
NWS Elko, NV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 16, 1996, 11:15 AM PDT for Elko 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
- Jul 16, 1996, 11:15 AM PDT (18:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 16, 1996, 12:15 PM PDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Elko, NV
- Area
- Whole counties
County Elko County, NV
The nearest sounding before it
Elko, NV (KLKN), launched 12:00Z, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 102 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
- 11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -331 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2027 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -80 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -38 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Jul 16, 2:22 AM PDT, 8 hours 53 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 16, 2:22 AM PDT, 8 hours 53 minutes before
NORTHERN GREAT BASIN FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV 225 AM PDT TUE JUL 16 1996 TSRA STILL MOVING ACRS SRN ZN7 PER KLRX...ENUF WARRANT UPDT. ON STLT PIX WV IMGRY SHOWING UPR VORT MAX OVER NRN CA WITH LOTS OF DRY AIR PUNCHING INTO ALL BUT FAR NW CORNER OF STATE. 00Z MDLS IN FAIRLY GUD AGRMNT IN BRINGING VORT INTO NRN NV DURING DAY TDA...HOWEVER ETA IS SLOWER AND DURING AFT NGM SPLITS THE SYSTEM...MOVING ONE PIECE INTO SRN ID. WILL SEE IF EITHER OF THESE SCENARIOS PLAYS OUT. IN ADDITION LUKS MSTR PROGS TRY AND PUSH THE DEEPEST MSTR IN AN ARC ALONG THE ID BORDER...THEN DOWN THE UT BORDER. AS HAS BEEN THE CASE LATELY SHUD SEE A GOOD SHOT AT TSRA THIS AFT OVER THESE AREAS ALONG STRONGEST GRADIENT ALONG BACK SIDE OF THETA E RDG WITH THIS IN MIND WILL CHG WORDING TO SCT IN ZN6. AS VORT MOVES INTO NW NV THIS AFT FEEL ENUF RESIDUAL MSTR AND DYNAMICS TO UP WORDING TO SCT IN ZN5. WITH DYNAMICS MOVING ACRS NORTH TDA AND MSTR REMAINING ALONG NORTH AND EAST...CUD BE A VERY INTERESTING DAY ESPECIALLY IN ERN ZN6 &7. LUKS LIKE THINGS TO FINALLY DRY OUT ON WEDNESDAY AS MSTR SHIFTS EAST INTO UT FOR THE MOST PART...ALTHOUGH SRN NV MAY SEE SOME RESIDUAL TSRA. DON'T SEE THE PREVIOUSLY PROMISED COOLDOWN THOUGH AS MDL TEMPS AT H85/70 DON'T COOLDOWN AND ACTUALLY WARMUP THROUGH F48. LUKING AT THE EXTENDED PD MRF REBUILDS OUR OLD FRIEND THE 4 CORNERS HI IN FOR THE WEEKEND SO HERE WE GO AGAIN WITH THE MONSOON. EKO2-0 WMC2-0 (ELY310 DUDLEY
The office that day
Everything else NWS Elko, NV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 16, 5:50 AM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LKN | Elko, Eureka | 55 min |
| Jul 16, 10:15 AM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LKN | Elko | 60 min |
| Jul 16, 11:58 AM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | LKN | Elko | 3 hr |
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.