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Flash Flood Warning 6, NWS Elko, NV

September 10, 1997Elko County, Nevada

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Elko, NV at 12:00Z on 1997-09-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Elko, NV at 12:00Z on 1997-09-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 51 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
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

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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
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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.