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Flash Flood Warning 4, NWS Elko, NV

June 26, 2000Eureka County, Nevada

NWS Elko, NV issued this flash flood warning at Jun 26, 2000, 12:31 PM PDT for Eureka County, Nevada. It was in force for 89 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.

The facts

Issued
Jun 26, 2000, 12:31 PM PDT (19:31 UTC)
Expired
Jun 26, 2000, 2:00 PM PDT
In force
89 min
Issued by
NWS Elko, NV
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Eureka County, NV

The nearest sounding before it

Reno, NV (KREV), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 179 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 2000-06-26Temperature 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 km15 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 2000-06-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 6 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1975 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
6 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-8 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.

000 
WGUS55 KLKN 261935
FFWLKN
NVC011-262100-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV
1231 PM PDT MON JUN 26 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ELKO HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL EUREKA COUNTY IN NEVADA

* UNTIL 200 PM PDT

* AT 1226 PM PDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY
  RAIN OVER GARDEN PASS...THE STORM WAS NEARLY STATIONARY.

PERSONS TRAVELLING ALONG STATE HIGHWAY 278 NEAR GARDEN PASS SHOULD
BE PREPARED FOR EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM...ESPECIALLY ALONG
GARDEN PASS CREEK. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLASH
FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...COUNTRY ROADS...NORMALLY DRY
WASHES AND ARROYOS...AS WELL AS FARMLAND ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS
AND STREAMS.

DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS SWIFTLY FLOWING WATERS OR WATERS OF UNKNOWN
DEPTH BY FOOT OR BY AUTOMOBILE. IF YOUR VEHICLE STALLS, ABANDON IT
IMMEDIATELY AND SE$EK HIGHER GROUND.

TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER HAVE THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY
RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN
ELKO.

LAT...LON 3990 11607 3990 11625 3977 11627 3977 11605

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 25, 7:07 PM PDTFlash Flood WarningLKNElko, Eureka53 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.