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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Elko, NV

June 9, 1997Elko County, Nevada

NWS Elko, NV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 9, 1997, 3:41 PM PDT for Elko County, Nevada. It was in force for 64 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 9, 1997, 3:41 PM PDT (22:41 UTC)
Expired
Jun 9, 1997, 4:45 PM PDT
In force
64 min
Issued by
NWS Elko, NV
Area
Whole counties

County Elko County, NV

The nearest sounding before it

Elko, NV (KLKN), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 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 1997-06-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 1997-06-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 28 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
1397 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
28 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
48 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 092242 RRA
SVREKO
NVC007-092345-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV
341 PM PDT MON JUN 9 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 NORTHEAST NEVADA
 
   ...SOUTHWESTERN ELKO COUNTY
 
AT 340 PM SPOTTERS IN ELBURZ...15 MILES EAST OF ELKO REPORTED WINDS IN
EXCESS OF 60 MPH AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH AND WILL MOVE INTO THE STARR VALLEY AREA BY 4 PM.
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 58
MPH, DESTRUCTIVE HAIL, DEADLY LIGHTNING, AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
FOR dYOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS.  HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO
DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
 
DUDLEY
 
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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 9, 2:00 PM PDT, 1 hour 41 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 9, 2:00 PM PDT, 1 hour 41 minutes before
NORTHERN GREAT BASIN FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV
200 PM PDT MON JUN 9 1997

SCT TSTMS POPING UP ACRS THE FA.  KLRX APPRS TO BE RUNNING HOT.  ONE TSTM
NR WMC SHOWED 67DB AND VIL31.  HOWEVER NOT MUCH REPORTED SO FAR FM SPOTTERS.
EXPCT STORMS TO CONT TO DVLP THIS AFTN AND EVE AS FOCUSING MECHANISMS REMAIN
IN AREA.  E.G. INSATABILITES NR MINUS 4 ON GOES IMAGER AND MODELS SHOW CONV
LINE RUNNING ESE TO WNW FM N OF ELY TO JUST S OF WMC THIS AFTN AND SHIFTING
SLOWLY N TO OR/ID BORDER LATER TONIGHT.  STILL SEE GD POTENTIAL OF ISOLD
FLASH FLOODING ESPCLY HUMBOLDT CNTY THIS AFTN AND ERLY EVE AS UA LO STARTS TO
PUSH TO NE.  BETTER ACTIVITY EXPECTED ACRS EXTRM NE NV TUES AFTN AS DYNAMIX
AND INSTABILITIES SHIFTS TO THE AREA.  AS FOR EXTND...AGREE WITH RNO IN
MENTIONING  CHC SHWRS THRU PD AS UA LOW PARKS NR AREA.
WMC5202  EKO4321   ELY3320
BYRNE

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.