Alert archive / Nevada / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Elko, NV
NWS Elko, NV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 11, 1997, 2:59 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 11, 1997, 2:59 PM PDT (21:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 11, 1997, 4:00 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 12:00Z, 10.0 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
- 10 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -41 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1031 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 36 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 55 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 112204 RRA SVREKO NVC007-112300- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV 259 PM PDT WED JUN 11 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ELKO HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 400 PM PDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...... IN NORTHEAST NEVADA ...SOUTHWESTERN ELKO COUNTY AT 255 PM...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES SOUTH OF JIGGS OR 25 MILES SOUTH OF ELKO. THE STORM IS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. THE STORM SHOULD REACH SPRING CREEK BY 345 PM. 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 ADLL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. LOHMANN
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 11, 2:18 PM PDT, 41 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 11, 2:18 PM PDT, 41 minutes before
NORTHERN GREAT BASIN FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV 200 PM PDT WED JUN 11 1997 TSTMS POPPING UP ACRS NRNNY TO EUREKA CNTY ATTM. ONE CELL HAS VIL NR 35 BUT CANT VERIFY IF HAIL OCCURING. CD FNT MOVG ONSORE OREGON SHD MOV THRU NE NV NR SUNRISE. AGREE WITH RNO IN USING AVN SOLN. EVEN SO...AVN STILL SHOWS PLENTY OF RH AND DYNAMIX ACRS ALL OF FA THROUGH FRI EVE. SO PUT POPS IN LIKELY CATGRY THRU THEN. TEMPS TO DROP BY 8 TO 10 DEG THURS AND RMN THERE FRI. AS FOR EXTND...BLV MODELS ARE KEEPING UA LO TOO FAR W AND NOT PUSHING IT E FAST ENUF...TEND TO THINK THIS LO MIGHT KICK E AS ERLY AS MIDDAY SAT RATHER THAN EUR SOLN OF NOT PUSHING IT OUT TIL MON. BUT WL GO ALNG WITH RNO. WMC5663 EKO4666 ELY4666 BYRNE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Elko, NV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 10, 5:29 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.