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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 31, NWS Elko, NV
NWS Elko, NV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 13, 2001, 4:15 PM PDT for White Pine County, Nevada. It was in force for 60 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 13, 2001, 4:15 PM PDT (23:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 13, 2001, 5:15 PM PDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Elko, NV
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County White Pine County, NV
The nearest sounding before it
Elko, NV (KLKN), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 114 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
- 33 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -372 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1656 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 148 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 146 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
122 WUUS55 KLKN 132316 SVREKO NVC033-140015- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV 415 PM PDT MON AUG 13 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTH CENTRAL WHITE PINE COUNTY IN NEVADA THIS INCLUDES THE TOWN OF CHERRY CREEK * UNTIL 515 PM PDT * AT 359 PM PDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES NORTHEAST OF CHERRY CREEK...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 5 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE MOVE ACROSS HIGHWAY 93 NEAR CHERRY CREEK BY 430 PM PDT LARGE HAIL...HEAVY RAIN AND STRONG GUSTY WIND IS POSSIBLE WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM. PULL TO THE SIDE OF THE ROAD IF HEAVY RAIN OBSCURES VISIBILITY. DURING LARGE HAIL...STAY IN YOUR CAR OR TAKE OTHER SHELTER. REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE. LAT...LON 3998 11500 3981 11482 3998 11459 4013 11484
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 13, 2:00 PM PDT, 2 hours 15 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 13, 2:00 PM PDT, 2 hours 15 minutes before
NORTHERN GREAT BASIN FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV 200 PM PDT MON AUG 13 2001 SYNOPSIS...MONSOON MOISTURE CURRENTLY OVER THE REGION WILL CONTINUE TO BRING A THREAT OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH TUESDAY. HIGH PRESSURE WILL BRING SOUTHWEST FLOW TO THE GREAT BASIN ON WEDNESDAY BRINGING DRY WEATHER AND NEAR NORMAL TEMPERATURES TO NEVADA THROUGH THE WEEKEND. SHORT TERM...WV IMAGERY SHOWING UPPER DISTURBANCE IN EASTERN PACIFIC WHICH WILL MOVE ONTO NORTHERN CA COAST THIS AFTERNOON AND INTO NW NV IN THE EARLY EVENING. HAVE JET SUPPORT WITH THIS FEATURE AND AM CONCERNED MODELS MAY BE UNDERESTIMATING DYNAMICS WITH THIS FEATURE. VORT FEATURE HAS SHEARED OUT SLIGHTLY BUT WILL KEEP POPS ACROSS MOST OF CWFA TONIGHT WITH INSTABILITY AND MOISTURE ALREADY IN PLACE. CURRENTLY IN CWFA ARE SEEING CLOUDS BUILD ACROSS EAST CENTRAL NV WITH LIGHTLY ALONG SOUTHERN EDGE OF CWFA. CONVECTION TAKING LONGER TO FIRE TODAY WITH SLIGHT CAP AT 650MB...BUT GIVEN WARMING TODAY EXPECT ACTIVITY TO BLOSSOM SOON. SAT IMAGERY SHOWING DRIER MID-LEVEL AIR OVER CWFA...BUT BELIEVE MODELS BEING TOO AGGRESSIVE IN DRYING OUT REGION GIVEN HOW WEAK SW FLOW IS. UPPER HIGH BEGINNING TO ELONGATE INTO EASTERN PACIFIC WHICH WILL END MONSOON FETCH AND BRING SW FLOW TO THE GREAT BASIN. BUT WITH FLOW SO WEEK WILL KEEP ISOLATED POPS ACROSS EASTERN HALF OF ZONES TOMORROW GIVEN INSTABILITY. MODELS CONTINUE TO SHOW DECENT INSTABILITY ACROSS FAR EAST-SOUTHEAST PORTION OF CWFA WEDNESDAY AND WITH LACK OF SPEED IN SW FLOW TO SCOUR THINGS OUT EXPECT ENOUGH MOISTURE TO REMAIN OVER FAR EAST ON WEDNESDAY TO WARRANT ISOLATED CHANCE. LOW LEVEL TEMPS SLOWLY WARM OVER NEXT 48 HOURS AND WILL WARM UP TEMPS SLIGHTLY OVER NEXT COUPLE DAYS. EXTENDED...MODELS IN GOOD AGREEMENT IN KEEPING UPPER HIGH OVER SOUTHWEST WITH SLOW EVOLUTION INTO MORE CLASSIC UPPER HIGH SOUTH OF FOUR CORNERS LATE SUNDAY. MEDIUM RANGE MODELS ALSO BRINGING UPPER LOW...NOW NEAR 140W AND 50N...TOWARDS MAINLAND OVER THE WEEKEND. DEPENDING ON DEPTH OF TROUGH AND POSITION OF UPPER HIGH WILL NEED TO WATCH LOW LEVEL FLOW AND SUBSEQUENT MOISTURE FETCH TO NEVADA ON SUNDAY AND MONDAY. WILL KEEP ALL OF EXTENDED DRY FOR NOW. FEHRN .EKO...NONE.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Elko, NV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 13, 2:55 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LKN | Eureka | 65 min |
| Aug 13, 3:30 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | LKN | Elko, White Pine | 60 min |
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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.