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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 23, NWS Elko, NV
NWS Elko, NV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 11, 2001, 12:55 PM PDT for Elko County, Nevada. It was in force for 35 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 11, 2001, 12:55 PM PDT (19:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 11, 2001, 1:30 PM PDT
- In force
- 35 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, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 137 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
- 57 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -227 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1421 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 5 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 91 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS55 KLKN 111957 SVREKO NVC007-112030- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV 1255 PM PDT WED JUL 11 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CENTRAL ELKO COUNTY IN NEVADA THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...ELKO...RYNDON * UNTIL 130 PM PDT * AT 1247 PM PDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ALONG MOUNTAIN CITY HIGHWAY NEAR ADOBE SUMMIT...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF RYNDON AT 125 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 4088 11603 4076 11586 4100 11549 4116 11570
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 Jul 11, 9:00 AM PDT, 3 hours 55 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 11, 9:00 AM PDT, 3 hours 55 minutes before
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
The office that day
Everything else NWS Elko, NV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 11, 2:48 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LKN | Humboldt | 27 min |
| Jul 11, 4:41 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LKN | Elko | 34 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.