Alert archive / Nevada / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 1, NWS Elko, NV
NWS Elko, NV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 7, 1997, 3:42 PM PDT for Lander County, Nevada. It was in force for 63 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 7, 1997, 3:42 PM PDT (22:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 7, 1997, 4:45 PM PDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Elko, NV
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lander County, NV
The radar
The Elko radar (KLRX), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:42 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Reno, NV (KREV), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 107 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
- 1791 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 23 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 89 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 072245 RRA SVREKO NVC015-072345- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV 342 PM PDT SAT JUN 7 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ELKO HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 445 PM PDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...... IN CENTRAL NEVADA ...NORTH CENTRAL LANDER COUNTY AT 345 PM...NEVADA HIGHWAY PATROL HAD INDICATED GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL LOCATED 2 MILES SOUTH OF BATTLE MOUNTAIN. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING OFF TO THE NORTH AT 10 TO 15 MPH. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE, SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND, LARGE HAIL, VERY HEAVY RAIN, AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. REDMAN &
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 7, 2:00 AM PDT, 13 hours 42 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 7, 2:00 AM PDT, 13 hours 42 minutes before
NORTHERN GREAT BASIN FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV 200 AM PDT SAT JUN 7 1997 VIGOROUS UPPER LOW NEAR BAJA THIS MORNING...CLOSE TO PROGS. WILL STAY IN THIS AREA TODAY AS WEAK TROUGH APPROACHES OREGON COASTLINE. HARDLY ANY MOISTURE WITH THIS FEATURE SO ITS MAIN JOB WILL BE TO WEAKEN THE CAP TODAY AND WARM THINGS UP. MOISTURE VISIBLE AROUND UPPER LOW MOVG INTO EASTERN NEVADA WILL CLASH WITH MORE SOUTHWESTLERY FLOW WITH TROUGH TODAY. THETA-E/THERMAL RIDGE TO SHIFT FURTHER WEST TODAY. WEAK CONVERGENCE LIKELY TO SET UP FROM ROUGHLY WMC EAST TO CARLIN AND SOUTH INTO EUREKA. SOME UPPER DIV OVER WEST CENTRAL NEVADA TODAY MAY HELP THINGS DESTABILIZE. WILL GO WITH SCATTERED SHRA/TSRA WEST AND CENTRAL WITH MORE ISOLATED COVERAGE EAST CENTRAL AND FAR NORTHWEST. AS TROUGH MOVES EAST OVERNIGHT...SHOWERS AND EVENING TSTORMS SHOULD CONTINUE IN THE EAST. BY SUNDAY...MESSY PATTERN STILL AS TROUGH CAUSES UPPER LOW TO EJECT NORTHWARD INTO UTAH...ALTHOUGH NOT AS FAR WEST AS YESTERDAYS RUNS. MOST CONVERGENCE SHIFTS TO THE NORTHEAST BUT STILL LOTS OF INSTABILTY BACK TO THE WEST AS WEAK LOW FORMS OFF CALIFORNIA COASTLINE. WILL GO WITH A CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS CWA...ALTHOUGH EASTERN SECTIONS SHOULD BE THE MOST ACTIVE. WMC333 EKO334 ELY244 PETERSON
The office that day
Everything else NWS Elko, NV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 7, 2:57 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | LKN | Elko | 4 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.