Alert archive / Nevada / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 1, NWS Elko, NV
NWS Elko, NV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 2001, 5:11 PM PDT for Humboldt County, Nevada. It was in force for 34 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
- May 24, 2001, 5:11 PM PDT (00:11 UTC)
- Expired
- May 24, 2001, 5:45 PM PDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Elko, NV
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Humboldt County, NV
The nearest sounding before it
Reno, NV (KREV), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 200 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 4849 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 22 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 52 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
041 WUUS55 KLKN 250017 CCA SVREKO NVC013-250045- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING...CORRECTED HIGHWAY NUMBER NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV 511 PM PDT THU MAY 24 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CENTRAL HUMBOLDT COUNTY IN NEVADA * UNTIL 545 PM PDT * AT 511 PM PDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER CENTRAL HUMBOLDT COUNTY...OR ABOUT 20 MILES NORTH OF WINNEMUCCA ALONG HIGHWAY 95...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... RURAL CENTRAL HUMBOLDT COUNTY AT 520 PM PDT RURAL EASTERN HUMBOLDT COUNTY AT 540 PM PDT REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE. LAT...LON 4130 11790 4112 11774 4138 11743 4153 11761
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 May 24, 2:00 PM PDT, 3 hours 11 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 24, 2:00 PM PDT, 3 hours 11 minutes before
NORTHERN GREAT BASIN FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV 200 PM PDT THU MAY 24 2001 SYNOPSIS...HIGH PRESSURE WILL CONTINUE TO BRING VERY WARM TEMPERATURES THROUGH SATURDAY WITH A COOLING TREND BY SUNDAY. THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE FOR MAINLY AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING THUNDERSTORMS MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND. SHORT TERM...RIDGE OVER THE REGION CONTINUES SLOWLY EAST THROUGH SATURDAY AS A SHORTWAVE SLOWLY APPROACHES THE CALIFORNIA COAST. ETA/NGM SHOW A WEAK VORT MAX EJECTING NORTHEAST OUT OF THIS SYSTEM AND ACROSS NEVADA ON SATURDAY, THE AVN MUCH LESS PRONOUNCED. 700- 500 MB LAYER RH MARGINAL IN THE SHORT TERM WITH THE 12Z ELKO SOUNDING PRECIPATAL WATER AT 0.45 INCHES. INVERTED V SOUNDING INDICATING HIGH BASED CONVECTION WITH DRY MICRO-BURST POTENTIAL. 700-500MB LAYER THETA E FORECAST SHOWS BULLSEYE AND RIDGE ACROSS EAST CENTRAL AND NORTHERN NEVADA, AND ALONG THE SIERRA THIS AFTERNOON. CUMULUS DEVELOPING NICELY IN THESE AREAS THIS AFTERNOON, EXPECT ISOLATED TO WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY TO DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON AND LINGER INTO THE EARLY EVENING BEFORE DYING OUT WITH LOSS OF HEATING. THETA E BULLSEYE/RIDGE SHIFT A LITTLE EAST FRIDAY AND SATURDAY. EXPECT MAINLY ISOLATED DIURNAL CONVECTION CWFA WIDE THROUGH THE WEEKEND. 700MB TEMPERATURES SLIGHTLY COOLER FRIDAY AND SATURDAY AND RECORD HIGH TEMPERATURES WILL BE HARDER TO REACH. WILL CONTINUE VERY WARM FORECAST FOR SATURDAY BUT ONLY MENTION RECORD THREAT IN ELY. COULD COME WITHIN 5 DEGREES IN OTHER AREAS. DIURNAL 10 TO 20 POPS SHOULD DO IT ACROSS THE CWFA IN THE SHORT TERM WITH THE HIGHER POPS CONCENTRATED ALONG THE FORECAST THETA E RIDGE. FWC/FAN/MAV GUIDANCE ALL PRETTY CLOSE THIS RUN. WILL WATCH RADAR TRENDS AT ISSUE TIME AND ADJUST ZONES ACCORDINGLY...TAPERING OFF PRECIP BY SUNSET. LONGER TERM...NORTHERN STREAM SHORTWAVE DROPS SOUTHEAST INTO NORTHERN CALIFORNIA SUNDAY AS A WEAKER SOUTHERN STREAM SHORTWAVE MOVES EAST ACROSS SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA. MRF/NOGAPS SIMILAR CLOSING OFF NORTHERN SYSTEM AND SLOWLY MOVING IT EAST INTO THE 4 CORNERS AREA BY THURSDAY. WILL BROAD BRUSH SUNDAY THROUGH THURSDAY WITH SLIGHT CHANCE SHOWERS/THUNDERSTORMS. COOLER SUNDAY AND MONDAY. CAN DRY THURSDAY OUT IF EXTENDED MODELS CONTINUE TO SHOW WEAK RIDGING AND NUMERICAL GUIDANCE DROPS BELOW CLIMO. LATEST RUN HAS POPS ABOVE CLIMO THURSDAY. NOT REAL CONFIDENT IN WHERE EXACTLY THE UPPER LOW WILL BE IN DAY 7. COOLING TREND BY SUNDAY WITH TEMPERATURES AT OR SLIGHT BELOW NORMAL IN THE EXTENDED...WITH MEMORIAL DAY THE COOLEST. .EKO...NONE. LEWIS
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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.