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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 3, NWS Elko, NV

June 10, 1997Elko County, Nevada

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Elko, NV at 00:00Z on 1997-06-11Temperature 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 00:00Z on 1997-06-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 41 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
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

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 11, 2:59 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLKNElko61 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Nevada, 1997Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1997

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.