Alert archive / Nevada / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Elko, NV
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.
- 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
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 &
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.