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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS Elko, NV

September 1, 2000Elko County, Nevada

NWS Elko, NV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 1, 2000, 12:24 PM PDT for Elko County, Nevada. It was in force for 36 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, 12:24 PM PDT (19:24 UTC)
Expired: Sep 1, 2000, 1:00 PM PDT
In force: 36 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 12:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 93 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: 196 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -130 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1103 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 89 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 130 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.7

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS55 KLKN 011926
SVREKO
NVC007-012000-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV
1224 PM PDT FRI SEP 1 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ELKO HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN ELKO COUNTY IN NEVADA

* UNTIL 100 PM PDT

* AT 1221 PM PDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER NORTHEASTERN ELKO COUNTY...OR ABOUT 22
  MILES NORTH OF MONTELLO...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  RURAL NORTHEASTERN ELKO COUNTY AT 1240 PM PDT

HAIL...INTENSE RAIN AND STRONG DAMAGING WINDS ARE LIKELY WITH THIS
STORM. TAKE COVER IN A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER UNTIL THE STORM PASSES.

VERY LARGE HAIL IS POSSIBLE WITH THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM. IF YOU ARE
IN THE PATH OF THE STORM...PUT YOUR CAR IN A GARAGE AND MOVE TO A
SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER.

REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORaCEMENT AGENCY. THEY
WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST
OFFICE IN ELKO.

LAT...LON 4143 11448 4157 11406 4203 11404 4203 11457

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, 9:00 AM PDT, 3 hours 24 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 1, 9:00 AM PDT, 3 hours 24 minutes before

NORTHERN GREAT BASIN FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV
900 AM PDT FRI SEP 1 2000

SHORT TERM...LATEST SATELLITE IMAGES SHOWED A SHORTWAVE EJECTING
ACROSS CENTRAL CALIFORNIA AND TOWARDS SOUTHERN NEVADA AS UPSTREAM
LOW DROPPED SOUTH OFF THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST COAST. 14Z SURFACE
ANALYSIS AND 12Z KLKN SOUNDING STILL SHOWED ABUNDANT MOISTURE IN
PLACE ALTHOUGH SOME DRYING WAS STARTING TO TAKE PLACE OVER
SOUTHWEST PARTS OF THE STATE WHICH COULD WORK INTO EAST CENTRAL
AREAS THIS AFTERNOON AND REDUCE THE AREAL COVERAGE/THREAT FOR
PRECIPITATION THERE. BETTER DYNAMICS/MOISTURE WILL MAKE NORTHERN
AREAS THE MOST ACTIVE ALTHOUGH AN ABUNDANT CIRRUS DECK COULD PLAY
A NEGATIVE ROLE IF IT HANGS AROUND TOO LONG. WIND PROFILES SHOW
LITTLE DIRECTIONAL SHEAR WITH MAINLY SPEED SHEAR. THIS WOULD
SUPPORT STRONG GUSTY SOUTH/SOUTHWEST WINDS WITH THE STRONGER
STORMS BUT LITTLE FLOODING PROBLEMS AS CELLS WOULD TRACK NORTHWARD
RATHER QUICKLY. WIND GUSTS SHOULD REMAIN BELOW SEVERE CRITERIA AS
BEST JET INTERACTION WILL REMAIN EAST AND SOUTH OF AREA. WILL MAKE
MINOR WORDING ADJUSTMENTS TO FORECAST BUT LEAVE MOST OF THE
METEOROLOGY CONTENT IN TACT. HOHMANN

.EKO...NOHNE.
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.