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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Elko, NV

June 22, 2001Lander County, Nevada

NWS Elko, NV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 22, 2001, 7:42 PM PDT for Lander County, Nevada. It was in force for 48 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
Jun 22, 2001, 7:42 PM PDT (02:42 UTC)
Expired
Jun 22, 2001, 8:30 PM PDT
In force
48 min
Issued by
NWS Elko, NV
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Lander County, NV

The radar

The Elko radar (KLRX), 151 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:43 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Reno, NV (KREV), launched 00:00Z, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 101 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 2001-06-23Temperature 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, Reno, NV at 00:00Z on 2001-06-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -18 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
3924 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
4 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-18 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
63 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 230243
SVREKO
NVC015-230330-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV
742 PM PDT FRI JUN 22 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN LANDER COUNTY IN NEVADA
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...AUSTIN...GILLMAN SPRINGS...HICKISON
  SUMMIT

* UNTIL 830 PM PDT

* AT 737 PM PDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 17 MILES SOUTHWEST OF AUSTIN...OR ABOUT 15
  MILES SOUTHEAST OF NEW PASS SUMMIT...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  3 MILES NORTHWEST OF AUSTIN AT 820 PM PDT

STRONG AND DAMAGING WINDS ARE LIKELY FROM THIS STORM...WITH WIND 
GUSTS NEAR 60 MPH...BUT THERE WILL BE LITTLE RAIN. TAKE COVER IN A 
STURDY STRUCTURE UNTIL THE STORM PASSES.

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

LAT...LON 3947 11734 3924 11732 3917 11659 3961 11662

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 22, 7:27 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLKNWhite Pine33 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Nevada, 2001Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2001

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.