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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 1, NWS Elko, NV

May 24, 2001Humboldt County, Nevada

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Reno, NV at 00:00Z on 2001-05-25Temperature 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 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Reno, NV at 00:00Z on 2001-05-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 22 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
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

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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

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.