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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 10, NWS Elko, NV
NWS Elko, NV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 1, 2000, 6:13 PM PDT for Elko County, Nevada. It was in force for 37 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
- Sep 1, 2000, 6:13 PM PDT (01:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 1, 2000, 6:50 PM PDT
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Elko, NV
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Elko County, NV
The nearest sounding before it
Elko, NV (KLKN), launched 00:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 189 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
- 165 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2907 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 45 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 64 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS55 KLKN 020119 SVREKO NVC007-020150- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV 613 PM PDT FRI SEP 1 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ELKO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHWESTERN ELKO COUNTY IN NEVADA THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...CHARLESTON...MOUNTAIN CITY... TUSCARORA * UNTIL 650 PM PDT * AT 610 PM PDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 18 MILES NORTH OF TUSCARORA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... WILSON RESERVOIR AT 620 PM PDT LARGE HAIL IS POSSIBLE WITH THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THE STORM...SEEK A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN ELKO. LAT...LON 4148 11655 4120 11642 4167 11542 4202 11638
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 Sep 1, 2:15 PM PDT, 3 hours 58 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 1, 2:15 PM PDT, 3 hours 58 minutes before
NORTHERN GREAT BASIN FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV 215 PM PDT FRI SEP 1 2000 SYNOPSIS...A LOW PRESSURE AREA NEAR THE WEST COAST WILL GRADUALLY MOVE EAST ACROSS THE NORTHERN GREAT BASIN THROUGH TUESDAY. ENOUGH MOISTURE WILL BE PRESENT TO BRING THE BEST CHANCE FOR RAIN TONIGHT AND EARLY SATURDAY. LOCALLY WINDY CONDITIONS WILL PRECEDE THIS SYSTEM THIS LABOR DAY WEEKEND. SHORT TERM...A LEADING SHORTWAVE MOVING OUT OF CENTRAL CALIFORNIA INTO SOUTHERN NEVADA IS A LITTLE STRONGER THAN DEPICTED PREVIOUSLY WITH DRYING NOTED OVER CENTRAL NEVADA ALONG WITH VERY STRONG SOUTHERLY WINDS AS FAR NORTH AS ELKO COUNTY. THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER WHITE PINE COUNTY WERE ACTUALLY BUILDING BACK WESTWARD AS THEY MOVED FAIRLY QUICKLY NORTH. IN ADDITION...STRONG SHORTWAVE MOVING OUT OF THE PACIFIC AND INTO WESTERN NEVADA WILL FURTHER ACT TO SUPPORT CONVECTION...ESPECIALLY ACROSS THE NORTH LATER TONIGHT AND EARLY SATURDAY. LEADING SHORTWAVE SHOULD FINALLY SHEAR AND EXIT MAKING FOR MAINLY EVENING CONVECTION EAST CENTRAL. HOWEVER STRONG DYNAMICS ACROSS THE NORTH WILL SUPPORT NOCTURNAL ACTIVITY INTO SATURDAY MORNING. DRIER AND MORE STABLE AIR WILL DOMINATE SUNDAY IN THE WAKE OF EXITING SHORTWAVE. TIGHT GRADIENT AND OBSERVATIONS ACROSS THE AREA TODAY SUPPORT LOCALLY WINDY CONDITIONS THIS EVENING WITH BREEZY TO WINDY CONDITIONS TO PREVAIL INTO THE WEEKEND. LONG TERM...THE MRF WAS COMING MORE IN LINE WITH THE UKMET IN A MORE PROGRESSIVE AND OPEN TROUGH WHICH WOULD LEND SUPPORT FOR LESS COLD AIR ADVECTION AND CONFINING SHOWERS TO NORTHERN NEVADA LABOR DAY AND TUESDAY. DRY AND SLIGHTLY WARMER CONDITIONS RETURN FOR WEDNESDAY. HOHMANN .EKO...NONE. N
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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.