Alert archive / Nevada / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 1, NWS Elko, NV
NWS Elko, NV issued this tornado warning at Jun 8, 1998, 11:25 AM PDT for Elko County, Nevada. It was in force for 30 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 8, 1998, 11:25 AM PDT (18:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 8, 1998, 11:55 AM PDT
- In force
- 30 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 18:27 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Elko, NV (KLKN), launched 12:00Z, 6.4 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
- 20 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -58 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 956 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 21 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 34 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
030 WFUS1 KEKO 081828 RRA TOREKO NVC007-081855- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV 1125 AM PDT MON JUN 8 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ELKO HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EAST CENTRAL ELKO COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN NEVADA * UNTIL 1155 AM PDT * AT 1122 AM PDT... SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO 11 MILES SOUTHEAST OF WELLS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 5 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS CURRENTLY EXPECTED TO REMAIN OVER RURAL AREAS IN THE INDEPENDENCE VALLEY. IF YOU ARE IN A CAR...GO IN A NEARBY STURDY BUILDING AS A LAST RESORT LIE FLAT IN A DITCH AND COVER YOUR HEAD. ASG
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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 tornado warning went out at Jun 8, 9:00 AM PDT, 2 hours 25 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 8, 9:00 AM PDT, 2 hours 25 minutes before
NORTHERN GREAT BASIN FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV 900 AM PDT MON JUN 8 1998 KLRX RADAR SHOWING FEW SHOWERS ACROSS EASTERN AND SOUTHERN ZONES REMAINING FAIRLY STATIONARY. 12Z NGM DATA CONTINUING TO SHOW PERSISTANT TROF ACROSS WEST COAST WITH WEAK VORT MAXES ROTATING THROUGH CALIFORNIA. AMS STILL QUITE UNSTABLE AS NGM/ETA SHOW LIS IN THE -2/-4 RANGE BY THIS AFTERNOON. MORNING SOUNDINGS SHOW LI OF 00...BUT WITH AFTERNOON MODIFIED SOUNDING...LIS DROP TO -4. WITH PLENTY OF RESIDULE LOW LEVEL MOISTURE...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL ONCE AGAIN DEVELOP BY THIS AFTERNOON. GOOD 300 AND 700 CON/DIV CUPLET OVER NORTHERN NEVADA SO HEAVY RAINFALL WILL BE A POSSIBILITY. DO HAVE A RIVER STATEMENT FOR HUMBOLDT RIVER AND WITH RECENT RAINFALL AND SATURATED GROUND IN AREAS...WILL HAVE TO WATCH FOR POSSIBLE FLASH FLOODING WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS. GORELOW EKO533 WMC544 ELY544 .EKO...NONE r
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 8, 11:12 AM PDT, 13 minutes before
NVZ007>NVZ012-082210- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV 1112 AM PDT MON JUN 8 1998 ...FUNNEL CLOUDS POSSIBLE THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON... MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIR OVER THE GREAT BASIN THIS AFTERNOON WILL PRODUCE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ALONG WITH THE POSSIBILITY OF FUNNEL CLOUDS. TWO FUNNEL CLOUDS HAVE BEEN REPORTED BY WEATHER SPOTTERS IN THE WELLS AREA AT 1100 AM THIS MORNING. THE ATMOSPHERE OVER NORTHERN NEVADA IS VERY UNSTABLE AND FUNNEL CLOUDS WILL BE POSSIBLE THROUGH THE AFTERNOON. FUNNEL CLOUDS CAN OCCASIONALLY TOUCH DOWN AS TORNADOES. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES...TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Elko, NV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 8, 11:32 AM PDT | Tornado Warning | LKN | Elko | 63 min |
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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.