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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 29, NWS Elko, NV

August 3, 2001Elko County, Nevada

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.

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 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 3, 2:04 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLKNElko41 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.