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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 11, NWS Elko, NV

June 12, 1998Humboldt County, Nevada

NWS Elko, NV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 12, 1998, 6:43 PM PDT for Humboldt County, Nevada. It was in force for 37 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 12, 1998, 6:43 PM PDT (01:43 UTC)
Expired
Jun 12, 1998, 7:20 PM PDT
In force
37 min
Issued by
NWS Elko, NV
Area
Whole counties

County Humboldt County, NV

The radar

The Elko radar (KLRX), 132 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:44 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Boise Airport, ID (KBOI), launched 00:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 287 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, Boise Airport, ID at 00:00Z on 1998-06-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 156 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, Boise Airport, ID at 00:00Z on 1998-06-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -5 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
156 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-101 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1860 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-5 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
29 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.

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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.