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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS Elko, NV

July 29, 1997Lander County, Nevada

NWS Elko, NV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 29, 1997, 3:05 PM PDT for Lander County, Nevada. It was in force for 55 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
Jul 29, 1997, 3:05 PM PDT (22:05 UTC)
Expired
Jul 29, 1997, 4:00 PM PDT
In force
55 min
Issued by
NWS Elko, NV
Area
Whole counties

County Lander County, NV

The radar

The Elko radar (KLRX), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:07 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Reno, NV (KREV), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 107 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, Reno, NV at 12:00Z on 1997-07-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 34 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Reno, NV at 12:00Z on 1997-07-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 41 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
34 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-153 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1681 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
41 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
82 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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 Jul 29, 2:30 PM PDT, 35 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 29, 2:30 PM PDT, 35 minutes before
NORTHERN GREAT BASIN FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV
230 PM PDT TUE JUL 29 1997

AN ACTIVE AFTERNOON OVER THE GREAT BASIN WITH SVR NR EKO AND MANY
OTHER TSRA ON RADAR. WILL HAVE TO WATCH SRN LANDER/EUREKA AS
RADAR/SAT INDICATING BIG STORMS OVER NRN NYE CNTY. MDLS CONT TO
INDICATE 90KT JET OVER UT/NV BORDER THIS EVE SO THINGS MAY GET
INTERESTING. AS FOR MDLS...THIS RUN A LITTLE MORE MOIST THAN LAST
NIGHTS AND WITH NO REAL CHANGE IN THE OVERALL PATTERN WITH SRLY
FLOW AT H50 WILL OPT TO REINTRODUCE SCT POPS ON WED AND KEEP THRU
THURSDAY. TEMPS TO AGAIN BE TRICKY AND WILL GO WITH COMP OF
FAN/FWC.

IN THE EXTENDED...AGREE WITH RNO TO KEEP CHCS EACH DAY IN THE
EXTENDED.
WMC3333   EKO5333   ELY2333
DUDLEY

The office that day

Everything else NWS Elko, NV issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 29, 1:47 PM PDTFlash Flood WarningLKNElko58 min
Jul 29, 1:47 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLKNElko58 min
Jul 29, 3:01 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLKNLander59 min
Jul 29, 3:19 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLKNEureka56 min

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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.