Alert archive / Nevada / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 3, NWS Elko, NV
NWS Elko, NV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 10, 1997, 5:29 PM PDT for Elko County, Nevada. It was in force for 61 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 10, 1997, 5:29 PM PDT (00:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 10, 1997, 6:30 PM PDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Elko, NV
- Area
- Whole counties
County Elko County, NV
The nearest sounding before it
Elko, NV (KLKN), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 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
- 1749 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 41 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 40 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 110031 RRA SVREKO NVC007-110130- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV 529 PM PDT TUE JUN 10 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ELKO HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 630 PM PDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...... IN NORTHEAST NEVADA ...NORTHEASTERN ELKO COUNTY AT 525 PM DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES SOUTH OF JACKPOT IN THE CONTACT AREA. THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS MOVING NORTH AT 20 MPH AND WILL MOVE ACROSS THE JACKPOT AREA THROUGH 625 PM. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE, SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND, LARGE HAIL, VERY HEAVY RAIN, AND DzEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. 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 10, 2:22 PM PDT, 3 hours 7 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 10, 2:22 PM PDT, 3 hours 7 minutes before
NORTHERN GREAT BASIN FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV 200 PM PDT TUE JUN 10 1997 SHWRS/TSTMS MOVG ACRS EKO AND NRN WHITE PINE/LANDER/EUREKA CNTYS ATTM. DRYING IN THE WEST PER VIS SAT. MAIN AXIS OF CONV/SHEAR LYING ALONG LINE FM B23 TO EKO AND THEN S OF ENV. PEA SIZE HAIL IN SPRING CREEK AREA WITH TSTM MOVG TO EKO AREA BUT DONT EXPCT MUCH INCRS IN HAIL SIZE. AS UA LOW NR B23 SHIFTS ENE EXPCT DCRS IN ACTIVITY THRU ERLY EVE HRS.: NXT SYS TO WOORY ABT SHD AFFCT NW NV LATE WED AFTN. MODELS DIFFER SGNFCNTLY IN POSN OF H5 LOW BY THURS MORN BUT COOLER AIR AND CYCLONIC FLOW TO DEFINTLY AFFCT FA THURS THRU WKND. WMC1233 EKO4023 ELY1003 BYRNE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Elko, NV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 11, 2:59 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LKN | Elko | 61 min |
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.