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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 34, NWS Elko, NV
NWS Elko, NV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 12, 2001, 5:14 PM PDT for White Pine County, Nevada. It was in force for 46 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
- Sep 12, 2001, 5:14 PM PDT (00:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 12, 2001, 6:00 PM PDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Elko, NV
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County White Pine County, NV
The radar
The Elko radar (KLRX), 223 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:18 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 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 170 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
- 16 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -230 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1023 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 66 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 285 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 367 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
346 WUUS55 KLKN 130016 SVREKO NVC033-130100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV 514 PM PDT WED SEP 12 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CENTRAL WHITE PINE COUNTY IN NEVADA THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...ELY...ELY AIRPORT...MCGILL...RUTH * UNTIL 600 PM PDT * AT 513 PM PDT...THE PUBLIC REPORTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF ELY AIRPORT...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... 3 MILES NORTHWEST OF MCGILL AT 525 PM PDT HAIL TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS IS POSSIBLE WITH THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THE STORM...PUT YOUR CAR IN A GARAGE AND MOVE TO A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. INTENSE LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. IF OUTDOORS...STAY AWAY FROM ISOLATED HIGH OBJECTS SUCH AS TREES. MOVE INDOORS IF POSSIBLE. WHEN INDOORS...STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS AND DOORS AND AVOID USING TELEPHONES UNLESS IT IS AN EMERGENCY. TRY TO UNPLUG UNNECESSARY ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES BEFORE THE THUNDERSTORM APPROACHES. REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE. LAT...LON 3931 11514 3913 11487 3960 11434 3975 11469
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 Sep 12, 2:20 PM PDT, 2 hours 54 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 12, 2:20 PM PDT, 2 hours 54 minutes before
NORTHERN GREAT BASIN FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV 220 PM PDT WED SEP 12 2001 .SYNOPSIS...THE LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM OVER NORTHERN CALIFORNIA WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE TOWARDS THE NORTHEAST. THIS WILL RESULT IN A DECREASE IN SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TONIGHT. ON THURSDAY ONLY A FEW LINGERING SHOWERS WILL OCCUR NEAR THE IDAHO AND OREGON BORDERS. ANOTHER LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM WILL BRUSH THE FAR NORTH MONDAY AND TUESDAY FOR A SMALL THREAT OF SHOWERS. .DISCUSSION...UPPER LOW CENTERED NEAR SACRAMENTO WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE TOWARDS THE NORTHEAST. THIS WILL ALLOW DRIER AIR WORKING AROUND THE BASE OF THE SYSTEM TO MOVE INTO NORTHERN AND EAST CENTRAL NEVADA RESULTING IN A DECREASE IN SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TONIGHT. ON THURSDAY ENOUGH LINGERING MOISTURE AND INSTABILITY WILL CONTINUE ACROSS THE FAR NORTH FOR ISOLATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. SHORT WAVE NEAR 35N/145W WAS INITIALIZED TOO WEAK BY ALL THE MODELS. IF THIS SYSTEM DIGS FAR ENOUGH SOUTH IT COULD DRAW UP SOME MOISTURE FROM TROPICAL STORM IVO INTO OUR FORECAST AREA OVER THE WEEKEND. WILL HAVE TO WAIT TO SEE HOW THIS DEVELOPS. FOR NOW WILL GO ALONG WITH THE MODEL IDEA OF BRINGING THIS SHORT WAVE INTO NORTHWEST NEVADA ON SATURDAY WITH ONLY ENOUGH MOISTURE FOR PARTLY CLOUDY SKIES. MODELS BRUSH THE NORTH WITH ANOTHER SHORT WAVE IN THE MONDAY/TUESDAY TIME FRAME SO WILL CONTINUE WITH A SLIGHT CHANCE OF SHOWERS IN THE FAR NORTH. COLLINS .EKO...NONE.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Elko, NV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 12, 6:05 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LKN | White Pine | 25 min |
| Sep 12, 6:10 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LKN | Lander | 50 min |
| Sep 12, 7:00 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LKN | Lander | 35 min |
| Sep 12, 10:42 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LKN | Elko, Eureka | 63 min |
| Sep 13, 10:23 AM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LKN | Elko | 52 min |
| Sep 13, 1:25 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LKN | Elko | 35 min |
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.