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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 28, NWS Elko, NV

August 3, 2001Elko County, Nevada

NWS Elko, NV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 3, 2001, 2:04 PM PDT for Elko County, Nevada. It was in force for 41 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
Aug 3, 2001, 2:04 PM PDT (21:04 UTC)
Expired
Aug 3, 2001, 2:45 PM PDT
In force
41 min
Issued by
NWS Elko, NV
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Elko County, NV

The radar

The Elko radar (KLRX), 160 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:07 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

Elko, NV (KLKN), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 61 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 2001-08-03Temperature 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 2001-08-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 35 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
3382 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
35 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
56 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 032106
SVREKO

NVC007-032145-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV
204 PM PDT FRI AUG 3 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL ELKO COUNTY IN NEVADA
  THIS INCLUDES CLOVER VALLEY

* UNTIL 245 PM PDT

* AT 202 PM PDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 12 MILES WEST OF CLOVER VALLEY TO
  29 MILES SOUTHEAST OF CLOVER VALLEY...OR FROM 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF
  RUBY VALLEY TO 14 MILES NORTH OF CURRIE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20
  MPH.

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
  OVER HIGHWAY 93 AND INTO OPEN COUNTRY

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

LAT...LON 4064 11521 4036 11495 4079 11435 4122 11478

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 Aug 3, 2:00 PM PDT, 4 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 3, 2:00 PM PDT, 4 minutes before
NORTHERN GREAT BASIN FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV
200 PM PDT FRI AUG 3 2001

SYNOPSIS...THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE MOVING NORTHEAST THROUGH ELKO
COUNTY THIS EVENING AND THEN CLEAR OUT THE NORTHEAST CORNER OF THE
STATE BY SATURDAY MORNING. HIGH PRESSURE WILL BUILD BACK IN FROM
THE EAST BRINGING WARMER TEMPERATURES AND THUNDERSTORMS MONDAY
THROUGH FRIDAY.

SHORT TERM...RADAR CONTINUES TO SHOW THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING IN
SOUTH CENTRAL EUREKA COUNTY AND MOVING NORTHEAST INTO SOUTH CENTRAL
ELKO COUNTY.  AVN FROM 06Z LAST NIGHT INDICATED HIGH RH IN THE AREA
OF CURRENT DEVELOPMENT AND THE 12Z RUN CONFIRMED. THE HIGHER
RH MOVES NORTHEAST THROUGH ELKO COUNTY AND OUT THE NORTHEAST
CORNER OF THE STATE BY SATURDAY MORNING. ENOUGH RESIDUAL MOISTURE
WILL STILL BE AVAILABLE SATURDAY AFTERNOON FOR MENTION OF ISOLATED
TRW IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN ELKO COUNTY. MEANWHILE DURING THE DAY
SATURDAY...THE TAIL END OF A SHORTWAVE WILL MOVE THRU FAR NORTHWEST
HUMBOLDT COUNTY...NO RAIN EXPECTED. STRONG HIGH PRES ALOFT BULGES
BACK FROM THE EAST STARTING SUNDAY

LONG TERM...MORE MOISTURE WORKS ITS WAY AROUND THE STRONG HIGH
PRES ALOFT INTO SOUTHEASTERN NV INCLUDING WHITEPINE COUNTY ON
MONDAY AND SPREADS NORTH AND WEST THRU NV TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY. WL
KEEP MENTION TRW THRU FRIDAY. NEYMAN

.EKO..NONE.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 3, 3:25 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLKNElko50 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.