Alert archive / Nevada / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 32, NWS Elko, NV
NWS Elko, NV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 20, 2001, 3:51 PM PDT for Elko County, Nevada. It was in force for 54 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 20, 2001, 3:51 PM PDT (22:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 20, 2001, 4:45 PM PDT
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS Elko, NV
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Elko County, NV
The radar
The Salt Lake City radar (KMTX), 196 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:55 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, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 56 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
- 3230 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 11 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 46 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
014 WUUS55 KLKN 202253 SVREKO NVC007-202345- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV 351 PM PDT MON AUG 20 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN ELKO COUNTY IN NEVADA THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF WEST WENDOVER * UNTIL 445 PM PDT * AT 349 PM PDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 40 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WEST WENDOVER...OR ABOUT 9 MILES NORTHEAST OF CURRIE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... RURAL SOUTHEASTERN ELKO COUNTY AT 410 PM PDT HAIL UP TO DIME SIZE...INTENSE RAIN AND STRONG DAMAGING WINDS TO 60 MPH ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. TAKE COVER IN A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER UNTIL THE STORM PASSES. REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE. LAT...LON 4036 11487 4020 11463 4025 11405 4092 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 20, 2:21 PM PDT, 1 hour 30 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 20, 2:21 PM PDT, 1 hour 30 minutes before
NORTHERN GREAT BASIN FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV 220 PM MON AUG 20 2001 SYNOPSIS...A WEAK COLD FRONT WILL PUSH THROUGH NORTHERN NEVADA TONIGHT BRINGING DRIER AIR AND SLIGHTLY COOLER TEMPERATURES. SOME RESIDUAL MOISTURE WILL REMAIN OVER EAST CENTRAL NEVADA TUESDAY CONTINUING THE SLIGHT CHANCE OF AFTERNOON THUNDERSTORMS. ANOTHER DISTURBANCE WILL PUSH INTO NORTHERN NEVADA WEDNESDAY INCREASING THE CHANCES OF PRECIPITATION FOR NORTHWEST NEVADA. TEMPERATURES WILL REMAIN AT OR SLIGHTLY BELOW NORMAL THROUGH MID WEEK. SHORT TERM...THUNDERSTORMS HAVE FIRED UP THIS AFTERNOON OVER EASTERN ELKO COUNTY AND WHITE PINE COUNTY IN ASSOCIATION WITH SOME MONSOONAL MOISTURE THAT TRACKED NORTH AROUND AN AREA OF HIGH PRESSURE. DRIER AIR HAS BEGUN TO PUSH IN FROM THE WEST BEHIND A WEAK COLD FRONT THAT IS DRAPED THROUGH NORTHWEST NEVADA. THIS TROUGH WILL SWING THROUGH THE STATE TUESDAY WITH JUST A LITTLE MOISTURE ACROSS NORTHWEST NEVADA. THE MAIN AREA OF DYNAMICS IS ACROSS CENTRAL NEVADA AND REALLY DONT EXPECT ANYTHING MORE THAN A FEW CLOUDS. THERE WILL BE SOME RESIDUAL MOISTURE OVER EASTERN NEVADA AND WILL GO AHEAD AND KEEP MENTION OF THUNDERSTORMS FOR THE FAVORED AREAS. A STRONGER TROUGH WILL PUSH INTO NORTHERN CA WEDNESDAY WITH BETTER DYNAMICS AND INSTABILITY OVER NORTHWEST NEVADA. HAVE GONE AHEAD AND ADDED A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS FOR HUMBOLDT COUNTY AS MOISTURE IS A LITTLE DEEPER. BREEZY CONDITIONS WILL ALSO DEVELOP OVER MOST AREAS IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE TROUGH. THE TROUGH BEGINS TO WEAKEN BY THURSDAY LEAVING A MOSTLY ZONAL FLOW OVER THE CWA. THE AVN IS SHOWING SOME LOW LEVEL MOISTURE OVER THE FAR NORTHWEST...BUT WILL GO AHEAD AND LEAVE EVERYTHING DRY FOR NOW. MRF CONTINUES TO SHOW THE TREND OF WEAKENING THE TROUGH IN THE PACIFIC AND KEEPS THE FLOW ZONAL. HEIGHTS ALSO BEGIN TO RISE AND WILL LOOK FOR A SLIGHT WARMING TREND FROM THE MIDDLE OF THE EXTENDED ON. THE MODELS ARE SHOWING A WEAK UPPER LOW DEVELOPING OFF THE CA COAST BY FRIDAY...BUT THERE IS VERY LITTLE IN THE WAY OF MOISTURE. AS OF NOW WILL NOT BOTHER WITH THIS FEATURE. AG .EKO...NONE.
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.