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Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Elko, NV
NWS Elko, NV issued this flash flood warning at Jul 23, 1998, 3:46 PM PDT for Eureka County, White Pine 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
- Jul 23, 1998, 3:46 PM PDT (22:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 23, 1998, 4:50 PM PDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Elko, NV
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Eureka County, NV, White Pine County, NV
The nearest sounding before it
Elko, NV (KLKN), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 174 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
- 15 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -221 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1996 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 8 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 12 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 10 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 232248 COR FFWEKO NVC011-033-232350- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV 346 PM PDT THU JUL 23 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ELKO HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... SOUTHWESTERN WHITE PINE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL NEVADA SOUTHERN EUREKA COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEVADA * UNTIL 450 PM PDT * AT 330 PM... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR AND SPOTTERED REPORTED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN OVER SOUTHERN EUREKA AND WHITE PINE COUNTY. THE STORMS WERE MOVING SLOWLY NORTH. * HIGHWAY 278 AT MILE MARKER 27 WAS UNDER WATER NORTH OF EUREKA. STATE ROUTE 378...THE ROAD TO DUCKWATER WAS WASHED OUT ABUOT 3 MILES FR2OM THE PAVEMENT END. DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD! MML &
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood 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 flash flood warning went out at Jul 23, 9:30 AM PDT, 6 hours 16 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 23, 9:30 AM PDT, 6 hours 16 minutes before
NVZ006>012-232230- REGIONAL WEATHER SYNOPSIS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV 930 AM PDT THU JUL 23 1998 MONSOONAL MOISTURE WILL CONTINUE TO SPREAD OVER THE NORTHERN GREAT BASIN FOR THE NEXT SEVERAL DAYS. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE SCATTERED ACROSS THE REGION EACH AFTERNOON AND EVENING. TEMPERATURES WILL BE NEAR NORMAL THROUGH THE END OF THE WEEK. THIS WEATHER PATTERN IS EXPECTED TO PERSIST INTO THE FIRST OF NEXT WEEK. SL
The office that day
Everything else NWS Elko, NV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 23, 3:38 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | LKN | Eureka | 67 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.