Alert archive / Nevada / Flash Flood Warnings in 1997
Flash Flood Warning 3, NWS Elko, NV
NWS Elko, NV issued this flash flood warning at Jul 29, 1997, 1:47 PM PDT for Elko County, Nevada. It was in force for 58 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 29, 1997, 1:47 PM PDT (20:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 29, 1997, 2:45 PM PDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Elko, NV
- Area
- Whole counties
County Elko County, NV
The radar
The Elko radar (KLRX), 129 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:51 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Elko, NV (KLKN), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 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
- 115 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -78 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1429 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -23 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 13 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 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 Jul 29, 9:05 AM PDT, 4 hours 42 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 29, 9:05 AM PDT, 4 hours 42 minutes before
NORTHERN GREAT BASIN FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV 905 AM PDT TUE JUL 29 1997 UPDATES NEEDED THIS AM FOR REMOVAL OF OVERNIGHT PCPN IN ZNS 6-7. KLRX/SAT IMAGERY SHOWING LAST OF OVERNIGHT PCPN NOW EXITING STATE TO NORTH WITH MAINLY SUNNY SKIES TO THE SOUTH. WILL UPDATE ZONES TO REFLECT THIS. AS FOR THIS AFTERNOON...WV IMAGERY SHOWING MOISTURE TRAIN NOW OVER UT WITH THE BACK EDGE BEGINNING TO MOVE BACK WEST TOWARD ERN BORDER. SECONDLY WK UPR VORT APPARENT OVER SRN CA DESERTS MOVING NORTH. LKN SNDG DOES SHOW PLENTY OF MSTR AVAILABLE FOR AFT TSRA AND PW AT .92 (SHARP). WILL WORD ALL NRN ZONES AS BECOMING PTLY CLDY AND KEEP SCT POPS FOR THE NORTH AND ISOLD FOR THE SRN ZONES. WILL NEED TO UP MAXES SOME OVER ZN6 WITH CLRG SKIES. A QUIK LUK AT 12Z ETA INDICATES CURRENT FCST OVERALL ON TRACK AND WILL LOOK AT OTHER MDL DATA FOR ANY FURTHER UPDATES TO LATER ZONES. WMC332 EKO330 ELY110 DUDLEY
The office that day
Everything else NWS Elko, NV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 29, 1:47 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LKN | Elko | 58 min |
| Jul 29, 3:01 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LKN | Lander | 59 min |
| Jul 29, 3:05 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LKN | Lander | 55 min |
| Jul 29, 3:19 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LKN | Eureka | 56 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Nevada, 1997Every flash flood warning in 1997
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.