Alert archive / Nevada / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 12, NWS Elko, NV
NWS Elko, NV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 22, 1998, 1:16 PM PDT for Elko County, Nevada. It was in force for 34 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 22, 1998, 1:16 PM PDT (20:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 22, 1998, 1:50 PM PDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Elko, NV
- Area
- Whole counties
County Elko County, NV
The radar
The Elko radar (KLRX), 129 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:16 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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
Elko, NV (KLKN), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 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
- 5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -346 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1567 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 91 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 168 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Jun 22, 8:45 AM PDT, 4 hours 31 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 22, 8:45 AM PDT, 4 hours 31 minutes before
NORTHERN GREAT BASIN FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV 845 AM PDT MON JUN 22 1998 SHOWERS AND FEW THUNDERSTORMS STILL ACTIVE OVER NRN ELKO COUNTY THIS MORNING. WATER VAPOR PICTURES SHOW MOST MOISTURE OVER NRN NV WITH SHORTWAVE MOVING FROM OREGON INTO NORTHERN CA. PRECIPITABLE WATER CONTS TO INCREASE WITH 0.65 OFF OF THE MORNING SOUNDING. MODIFYING SOUNDING GIVES LI VALUE TO -5 WITH CAPE TO AROUND 1300. SOUNDING ALSO SHOW INVERTED-V SO WILL BE LOOKING FOR STRNG WINDS. THINK MOST OF STRONG CONVECTION WILL BE NORTH OF I-80 TODAY WITH THE EARLIER CONVECTION ADDING SOME FOCUS. ALSO ANALYSIS SHOWS SOME CONVERGENCE BOUNDRY ACROSS NRN ELKO COUNTY AS LOW AT 700 MB MOVES INTO ERN NV. SCATTERED POP ACROSS NORTH LOOKS GOOD. PER COOR WITH RNO WILL INCREASE POPS IN CENTRAL AND BOUNDRY EXTENDS INTO SRN LANDER COUNTY. WILL UPDATE TO ADD GUSTY WINDS AND SOME LOCAL HEAVY RAIN TO NRN ZONES. LOHMANN .EKO...NONE.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Elko, NV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 22, 1:39 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LKN | Elko | 56 min |
| Jun 22, 1:47 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LKN | Elko | 43 min |
| Jun 22, 2:27 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LKN | Lander | 33 min |
| Jun 22, 2:57 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LKN | Elko | 58 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Nevada, 1998Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1998
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.