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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 25, NWS Elko, NV

September 29, 1998Eureka County, Nevada

NWS Elko, NV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 29, 1998, 1:25 PM PDT for Eureka County, Nevada. It was in force for 60 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
Sep 29, 1998, 1:25 PM PDT (20:25 UTC)
Expired
Sep 29, 1998, 2:25 PM PDT
In force
60 min
Issued by
NWS Elko, NV
Area
Whole counties

County Eureka County, NV

The nearest sounding before it

Reno, NV (KREV), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 171 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 1998-09-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 136 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 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 1998-09-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 80 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
136 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-184 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1851 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
80 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
111 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.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 29, 11:53 AM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLKNLander62 min
Sep 29, 1:57 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLKNElko63 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.