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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 8, NWS Elko, NV

August 3, 2000Eureka County, Lander County, Nevada

NWS Elko, NV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 3, 2000, 3:23 PM PDT for Eureka County, Lander 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: Aug 3, 2000, 3:23 PM PDT (22:23 UTC)
Expired: Aug 3, 2000, 4:00 PM PDT
In force: 37 min
Issued by: NWS Elko, NV
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Eureka County, NV, Lander County, NV

The nearest sounding before it

Reno, NV (KREV), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 175 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 64 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -237 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2445 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 15 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 7 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 
WUUS55 KLKN 032225
SVREKO
NVC011-015-032300-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV
323 PM PDT THU AUG 3 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ELKO HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHWESTERN EUREKA COUNTY IN NEVADA
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...BEOWAWE...CRESCENT VALLEY...DUNPHY...
  EMIGRANT PASS...PALISADE
  NORTHEASTERN LANDER COUNTY IN NEVADA
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...ARGENTA...BATTLE MOUNTAIN

* UNTIL 400 PM PDT

* AT 317 PM PDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 9 MILES NORTHWEST OF CRESCENT VALLEY...MOVING
  NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  4 MILES NORTHWEST OF BEOWAWE AT 355 PM PDT
  4 MILES SOUTH OF DUNPHY AT 400 PM PDT

INTENSE RAIN AND STRONG DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH ARE 
LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. TAKE COVER IN A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER UNTIL 
THE STORM PASSES. BLOWING DUST AHEAD AND TO THE WEST OF THIS STORM 
WILL RESULT IN REDUCED VISIBILITY TO NEAR ZERO AS WELL.

INTENSE LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. IF OUTDOORS...STAY
AWAY FROM ISOLATED HIGH OBJECTS SUCH AS TREES. MOVE INDOORS IF
POSSIBLE. WHEN INDOORS...STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS AND DOORS AND AVOID
USING TELEPHONES UNLESS IT IS AN EMERGENCY. TRY TO UNPLUG UNNECESSARY
ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES BEFORE THE THUNDERSTORM APPROACHES.

REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST L"AW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY
WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST
OFFICE IN ELKO.

LAT...LON 4061 11712 4027 11622 4075 11617 4091 11675

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 Aug 3, 2:00 PM PDT, 1 hour 23 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 3, 2:00 PM PDT, 1 hour 23 minutes before

NORTHERN GREAT BASIN FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV
200 PM PDT THU AUG 3 2000

SYNOPSIS...A LARGE HIGH PRESSURE RIDGE WILL REMAIN NEAR THE FOUR
CORNERS REGION. A SOUTHERLY FLOW AROUND THE HIGH WILL SEND MONSOON
MOISTURE OVER NORTHEASTERN NEVADA THROUGH EARLY SATURDAY. THE FLOW
WILL TURN SOUTHWESTERLY THIS WEEKEND. THIS WILL SLOWLY PUSH THE
MONSOON MOISTURE EAST.

SHORT TERM...LARGE THUNDERSTORM CLUSTER NOW OVER CENTRAL LANDER
AND EUREKA COUNTIES. SOME SMALLER CELLS WITH RAPID VERTICAL
DEVELOPMENT OCCURRING IN SOUTHEAST ELKO COUNTY. WITH THE ABUNDANT
MOISTURE...WILL GO WITH SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS TONIGHT. TOMORROW LOOKS TO BE JUST ABOUT AS MOIST
WITH THE BEST CHANCE FOR MEASURABLE RAIN IN THE NORTHEAST AS SOME
DRIER AIR FROM THE WEST BEGINS TO INFILTRATE OUR WESTERN AND
SOUTHERN ZONES. WILL GO WITH CHANCE POPS ALL ZONES WITH LOW CHANCE
IN THE SOUTHWEST AND HIGH CHANCE @IN THE NORTHEAST.

LONG TERM...FOUR CORNERS HIGH FLATTENS AS A SORT OF WEAK ZONAL
FLOW TAKES OVER THE GREAT BASIN. WILL GO DRY ALL ZONES FOR NOW.
SARGE

.EKO...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 600 PM NVZ030>034-036.

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 3, 11:45 AM PDT, 3 hours 38 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NEVADA
1145 AM PDT THU AUG 3 2000

TIME(PDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0336 PM    COILS CREEK RAWS SITE    NV    63 MILE PER HOUR
           LAT/LON 39.83N 116.48W         WIND GUST
           EUREKA COUNTY

0445 PM    4 SE OF BATTLE MOUNTAIN  NV    59 MILE PER HOUR
08/02/00   LANDER COUNTY                  WIND GUST

0500 PM    RAWS SITE E OF BATTLE    NV    57 MILE PER HOUR MAX
08/02/00   MOUNTAIN                       WIND GUST ON 500 PM
           LAT/LON 40.57N 116.77W         OBSERVATION
           LANDER COUNTY

0542 PM    SPRING GULCH RAWS SITE   NV    55 MILE PER HOUR
           LAT/LON 40.58N 114.20W         WIND GUST
           ELKO COUNTY
SEAMAN

Local storm report, Aug 3, 11:45 AM PDT, 3 hours 38 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NEVADA
1145 AM PDT THU AUG 3 2000

TIME(PDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0336 PM    COILS CREEK RAWS SITE    NV    63 MILE PER HOUR
08/02/00   LAT/LON 39.83N 116.48W         WIND GUST
           EUREKA COUNTY

0445 PM    4 SE OF BATTLE MOUNTAIN  NV    59 MILE PER HOUR
08/02/00   LANDER COUNTY                  WIND GUST

0500 PM    RAWS SITE E OF BATTLE    NV    57 MILE PER HOUR MAX
08/02/00   MOUNTAIN                       WIND GUST ON 500 PM
           LAT/LON 40.57N 116.77W         OBSERVATION
           LANDER COUNTY

0542 PM    SPRING GULCH RAWS SITE   NV    55 MILE PER HOUR
08/02/00   LAT/LON 40.58N 114.20W         WIND GUST
           ELKO COUNTY

SEAMAN

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 3, 3:19 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LKN	Elko	41 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.