Alert archive / Nevada / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 29, NWS Elko, NV
NWS Elko, NV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 3, 2001, 3:25 PM PDT for Elko County, Nevada. It was in force for 50 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, 3:25 PM PDT (22:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 3, 2001, 4:15 PM PDT
- In force
- 50 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, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 27 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS55 KLKN 032226 SVREKO NVC007-032315- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV 325 PM PDT FRI AUG 3 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... EXTREME EASTERN ELKO COUNTY IN NEVADA THIS INCLUDES WEST WENDOVER * UNTIL 415 PM PDT * AT 322 PM PDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 20 MILES WEST OF WEST WENDOVER TO 10 MILES NORTH OF LAGES JUNCTION...OR FROM 13 MILES SOUTHWEST OF OASIS TO 8 MILES EAST OF CURRIE...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. * SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR... INTERSTATE 80 BETWEEN WEST WENDOVER AND OASIS AT 330 PM PDT WEST WENDOVER AT 400 PM PDT. THESE STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF 3/4 INCH HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH. REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECaAST OFFICE. LAT...LON 4101 11455 4015 11471 4015 11407 4106 11407
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, 1 hour 25 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 3, 2:00 PM PDT, 1 hour 25 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 3, 2:04 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LKN | Elko | 41 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.