Alert archive / Nevada / Flash Flood Warnings in 1997
Flash Flood Warning 6, NWS Elko, NV
NWS Elko, NV issued this flash flood warning at Sep 10, 1997, 2:49 PM PDT for Elko County, Nevada. It was in force for 71 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
- Sep 10, 1997, 2:49 PM PDT (21:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 10, 1997, 4:00 PM PDT
- In force
- 71 min
- Issued by
- NWS Elko, NV
- Area
- Whole counties
County Elko County, NV
The nearest sounding before it
Elko, NV (KLKN), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1660 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 51 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 13 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 102150 FFWEKO NVC007-102300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV 249 PM PDT WED SEP 10 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ELKO HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 400 PM PDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...... IN NORTHEAST NEVADA ...NORTH CENTRAL ELKO COUNTY AT 245 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OCCURING IN THE JACKPOT AREA. SPOTTERS IN THIS AREA HAVE BEEN REPORTING TORRENTIAL RAINFALL. IN THE PAST 24 HOURS...SPOTTERS IN THIS AREA RECORDED NEARLY 0.75 INCHES OF RAIN. THIS RAIN WILL ONLY INCREASE ANY RUNOFF BECAUSE THE GROUND IS ALREADY WET FROM LAST NIGHT RAINFALL. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES, DIPS, OR LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM, EVEN A SMALL ONE, ON FOOT. TO ESCAPE RISING WATER MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND. REDMAN &
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 Sep 10, 2:00 AM PDT, 12 hours 49 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 10, 2:00 AM PDT, 12 hours 49 minutes before
NORTHERN GREAT BASIN FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV 200 AM PDT WED SEP 10 1997 SHWRS AND FEW TSTMS STILL MOVING NORTHEAST FROM EKO SOUTH TO P68 THIS AM. UPR LOW OFF NRN CA COAST TO MOVE SLOWLY INLAND TODAY AND REACH NW NV TNGT AND ACRSS THE NORTH ON THU. MAY SEE A LITTLE DRIER AIR INTO CNTRL NV TODAY BUT OVRALL MSTR ACRSS THE NORTH AND EAST REMAINS WITH WIDESPREAD INSTABLITY. AS TROF EDGES CLOSER SHLD ADD SOME DYNMIXS BUT SFC HEATING AND STRNG LAPSE RATES TODAY WITH INVERTED V SOUNDINGS SO MORE WINDS THAN RAIN IN NE. CONT TO SEE MORE MSTR ACRSS THE NORTHERN BORDER TNGT AND EARLY THU WITH SOME DYNAMICS FOR A CHC OF SHWRS THAT AREA TNGT AND THEN DRYING OUT AREA ON THU BEHIND COOLER FRONT. AVN/ETA BOTH PROG JET TO BE OVR NW NV BY 00Z THU AND SHLD KICK UP SOME WINDS. ANTHR WARM DAY TDA...BUT CLD COVER MAY HOLD BACK TEMPS A BIT AND THEN THE COOL DOWN THU AS H7 TEMPS COOL 3-5 DGREES ACRSS AREA. EKO220 WMC210 ELY210 LOHMANN
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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.