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Flash Flood Warning 3, NWS Elko, NV

July 8, 2001White Pine County, Nevada

NWS Elko, NV issued this flash flood warning at Jul 8, 2001, 3:41 PM PDT for White Pine County, Nevada. It was in force for 49 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
Jul 8, 2001, 3:41 PM PDT (22:41 UTC)
Expired
Jul 8, 2001, 4:30 PM PDT
In force
49 min
Issued by
NWS Elko, NV
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County White Pine County, NV

The nearest sounding before it

Elko, NV (KLKN), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 144 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, Elko, NV at 12:00Z on 2001-07-08Temperature 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, Elko, NV at 12:00Z on 2001-07-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 7 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
1458 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
7 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
33 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 082245
FFWLKN
NVC033-082330-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV
341 PM PDT SUN JUL 8 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL WHITE PINE COUNTY IN NEVADA
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...ELY...MCGILL...CHERRY CREEK...AND
  SCHELLBOURNE

* UNTIL 430 PM PDT

* AT 330 PM PDT...THE PUBLIC REPORTED ONE INCH OF RAIN FALLING IN 20
MINUTES IN THE TOWN OF ELY. THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN ARE MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE THUNDERSTORM WITH EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL BE NEAR...CHERRY
CREEK AT 415 PM PDT

DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS
SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY.
MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.

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 SEEK HIGHER GROUND.

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

LAT...LON 3949 11494 3937 11451 3993 11441 3996 11501

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 7, 7:20 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLKNElko25 min
Jul 7, 7:50 PM PDTFlash Flood WarningLKNElko55 min
Jul 8, 4:26 PM PDTFlash Flood WarningLKNWhite Pine64 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.