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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 36, NWS Elko, NV
NWS Elko, NV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 12, 2001, 6:10 PM PDT for Lander 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
- Sep 12, 2001, 6:10 PM PDT (01:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 12, 2001, 7:00 PM PDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Elko, NV
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Lander County, NV
The radar
The Elko radar (KLRX), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:12 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
Reno, NV (KREV), launched 00:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 106 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
- 19 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -27 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2581 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 27 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 36 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
050 WUUS55 KLKN 130114 SVREKO NVC015-130200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV 610 PM PDT WED SEP 12 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CENTRAL LANDER COUNTY IN NEVADA * UNTIL 700 PM PDT * AT 607 PM PDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER WEST CENTRAL LANDER COUNTY...OR ABOUT 37 MILES WEST OF GRASS VALLEY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... RURAL CENTRAL LANDER COUNTY AT 620 PM PDT LARGE HAIL...UP TO 1 1/4 INCH SIZE...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. AT THE CURRENT TRAJECTORY...THIS STORM IS EXPECTED TO REMAIN WEST THE AUSTIN...BATTLE MOUNTAIN HIGHWAY. HOWEVER...MOTORISTS ON THE AUSTIN...BATTLE MOUNTAIN HIGHWAY SHOULD STAY ALERT FOR THE POSSIBLITY OF LARGE HAIL...HEAVY RAIN...AND WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH. REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE. LAT...LON 4006 11739 3994 11722 4018 11686 4034 11707
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, 3 hours 50 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 12, 2:20 PM PDT, 3 hours 50 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, 5:14 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LKN | White Pine | 46 min |
| Sep 12, 6:05 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LKN | White Pine | 25 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.