Alert archive / Nevada / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 33, NWS Elko, NV
NWS Elko, NV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 20, 2001, 5:16 PM PDT for White Pine County, Nevada. It was in force for 44 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, 5:16 PM PDT (00:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 20, 2001, 6:00 PM PDT
- In force
- 44 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 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 110 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
- 157 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3638 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -6 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 77 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
074 WUUS55 KLKN 210017 SVREKO NVC033-210100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV 516 PM PDT MON AUG 20 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHEASTERN WHITE PINE COUNTY IN NEVADA THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...CHERRY CREEK...LAGES JUNCTION... SCHELLBOURNE * UNTIL 600 PM PDT * AT 511 PM PDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER CHERRY CREEK...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... 5 MILES NORTH OF SCHELLBOURNE AT 535 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 4010 11519 3977 11503 3974 11412 4010 11412
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, 4:58 PM PDT, 18 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 20, 4:58 PM PDT, 18 minutes before
NORTHERN GREAT BASIN FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV 455 PM MON AUG 20 2001 UPDATED ZONES TO EXPAND FIRST PERIOD POPS INTO CENTRAL ELKO COUNTY AND THE RUBY MOUNTAINS. MARGINALLY SEVERE STORMS CONTINUE TO MOVE ACROSS THE SOUTHEAST PART OF AREA. THESE STORMS SHOULD CONTINUE UNTIL A COUPLE OF HOURS AFTER SUNSET. .EKO...NONE. 95
The office that day
Everything else NWS Elko, NV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 20, 7:46 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | LKN | White Pine | 4 hr |
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.