Alert archive / Nevada / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 7, NWS Elko, NV
NWS Elko, NV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 1998, 2:15 PM PDT for Elko 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
- Jun 2, 1998, 2:15 PM PDT (21:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 2, 1998, 3:15 PM PDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Elko, NV
- Area
- Whole counties
County Elko County, NV
The nearest sounding before it
Elko, NV (KLKN), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2608 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -87 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 23 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
890 WUUS1 KEKO 022116 RRA SVREKO NVC007-022215- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV 215 PM PDT TUE JUN 2 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ELKO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTH CENTRAL AND NORTHEASTERN ELKO COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN NEVADA * UNTIL 315 PM PDT * AT 213 PM PDT... DOPPLER RADAR AT ELKO INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 22 MILES WEST OF WELLS MOVING NORTH AT 30 MPH. * THIS STORM WILL MOVE NEAR THE MARYS RIVER RANCH BY 245 PM. DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL ARE LIKELY. GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS DUDLEY
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 2, 2:00 PM PDT, 15 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 2, 2:00 PM PDT, 15 minutes before
NORTHERN GREAT BASIN FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV 200 PM PDT TUE JUN 2 1998 LOTS OF CONVECTIVE ACTIVITY IN LANDER/EUREKA/ERN HUMBOLDT AND WESTERN ELKO COUNTY EARLY THIS AFTERNOON. WATER VAPOR SHOWS VORT MAX MOVING THROUGH NORTHERN NEVADA. 700MB AND 800 MB WINDS FROM NGM/ETA MODELS INDICATE CONVERGENCE LINE FROM TONOPAH THROUGH ELKO TO WENDOVER. THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD CONTINUE TO DEVELOP THROUGH THE EVENING HOURS IN NORTHEAST NEVADA AS VORTICITY LOBE SHIFTS NORTHEAST. MODELS DIFFER IN SPEED OF UPPER TROF WITH ETA SLOWEST. ALL MODELS DO KEEP NORTHERN AND CENTRAL NEVADA UNDER MODERATE TO HIGH INSTABILITIES...GOOD 700-300MB COUPLETING AND MODERATE MOISTURE. AVN FINALLY SWINGS 500MB TROF INTO UTAH BY FRIDAY MORNING. SO WOULD EXPECT BREAK FRIDAY AND SATURDAY AS NEW CUTOFF LOW SETTLES NEAR 35N/130W BY FRIDAY AFTERNOON THEN SWINGS EAST TOWARD COAST SATURDAY. BYRNE EKO6653 WMC7742 ELY4564 .EKO...NONE.
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.