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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 7, NWS Elko, NV

June 2, 1998Elko County, Nevada

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Elko, NV at 12:00Z on 1998-06-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Elko, NV at 12:00Z on 1998-06-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -87 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
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

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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.

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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.