Alert archive / Nevada / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 8, NWS Elko, NV
NWS Elko, NV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 3, 1998, 1:53 PM PDT for White Pine County, Nevada. It was in force for 62 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 3, 1998, 1:53 PM PDT (20:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 3, 1998, 2:55 PM PDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Elko, NV
- Area
- Whole counties
County White Pine County, NV
The radar
The Elko radar (KLRX), 217 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:54 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, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 170 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
- 3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -18 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 772 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 1 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -3 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
091 WUUS1 KEKO 032054 RRA SVREKO NVC033-032155- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV 153 PM PDT WED JUN 3 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ELKO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHEASTERN WHITE PINE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL NEVADA * UNTIL 255 PM PDT * AT 151 PM PDT... DOPPLER RADAR AT ELKO INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 54 MILES NORTH OF ELY MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * THIS STORM WILL MOVE INTO THE GOSHUTE RESERVATION NEAR THE UTAH BORDER THROUGH 230 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 3, 9:15 AM PDT, 4 hours 38 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 3, 9:15 AM PDT, 4 hours 38 minutes before
NORTHERN GREAT BASIN FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV 915 AM PDT WED JUN 3 1998 LOOKS LIKE THE POTENTIAL TODAY AND THIS EVENING FOR HEAVY RAIN OVER THE FA AS ATMOSPHERE VERY MOIST AND PW NEAR .65 ON ELKO SOUNDING. SATELLITE IMAGERY SHOWING ONE VORT OVER ERN OREGON WITH SECOND SWINGING NORTHEAST INTO SO CAL. KLRX SHOWING RATHER LARGE AREA OF RAIN OVER SOUTHERN LANDER AND EUREKA COUNTIES WITH U31 REPORTING MODERATE RAIN AND OVER .50 OVERNIGHT. 12Z MODELS AGREE IN LEAVING CONVERGENCE ZONE FROM ENV TO U31 THIS AFTERNOON AND BOTH ETA AND NGM PROG COPIUS QPF THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. WILL UPDATE ZONES TO INCLUDE HEAVY RAIN WORDING...BUT WITH ATMOSPHERE COOL WILL NOT ISSUE FLASH FLOOD WATCH AT THIS TIME...BUT WILL MONITOR VERY CLOSELY. TEMPS APPEAR IN LINE AND WILL ONLY MAKE A FEW ADJUSTMENTS DOWN. WILL MAKE NO CHANGES TO 2ND AND 3RD PERIOD. EKO752 WMC541 ELY773 .EKO...NONE DUDLEY
The office that day
Everything else NWS Elko, NV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 3, 2:34 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LKN | Elko | 61 min |
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.