Alert archive / Nevada / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Elko, NV
NWS Elko, NV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 11, 1996, 3:06 PM PDT for Elko County, Nevada. It was in force for 69 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, 3:06 PM PDT (22:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 11, 1996, 4:15 PM PDT
- In force
- 69 min
- Issued by
- NWS Elko, NV
- Area
- Whole counties
County Elko County, NV
The nearest sounding before it
Elko, NV (KLKN), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KEKO 112206 SVREKO NVC007-112315- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV 306 PM PDT TUE JUN 11 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ELKO HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 415 PM PDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...... IN NORTHEAST NEVADA ...SOUTHERN ELKO COUNTY AT 300 PM RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM JUST NORTHEAST OF CURRIE OR 60 MILES SOUTHEAST OF ELKO MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. THE STORM WILL MOVE ACROSS THE GOSHUTE VALLEY OF SOUTHEAST ELKO COUNTY THROUGH 345 PM. WINDS TO 60 MPH...DIME SIZE HAIL AND VERY HEAVY RAINS WILL ACCOMPANY THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM.` IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 58 MPH, LARGE HAIL, AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER, PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. DUDLEY
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, 13 hours 25 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 11, 1:41 AM PDT, 13 hours 25 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 11, 2:15 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LKN | Elko, White Pine | 60 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.