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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Elko, NV

May 26, 2001Elko County, Nevada

NWS Elko, NV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 26, 2001, 1:40 PM PDT for Elko County, Nevada. It was in force for 35 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
May 26, 2001, 1:40 PM PDT (20:40 UTC)
Expired
May 26, 2001, 2:15 PM PDT
In force
35 min
Issued by
NWS Elko, NV
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Elko County, NV

The radar

The Elko radar (KLRX), 128 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:42 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, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 139 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Elko, NV at 12:00Z on 2001-05-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 8 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Elko, NV at 12:00Z on 2001-05-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -20 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
8 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-463 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2543 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-20 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
31 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS55 KLKN 262041
SVREKO
NVC007-262115-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV
140 PM PDT SAT MAY 26 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN ELKO COUNTY IN NEVADA
  THIS INCLUDES THE COMMUNITIES OF...CHARLESTON...CONTACT...GIBBS    
  RANCH

* UNTIL 215 PM PDT

* AT 138 PM PDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED   
  A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 40 MILES SOUTHWEST OF          
  CHARLESTON TO 15 MILES SOUTH OF CONTACT...OR FROM NEAR TUSCARORA   
  TO 13 MILES SOUTH OF CONTACT...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

STRONG AND DAMAGING WINDS AND HAIL TO 1 INCH IN DIAMETER ARE LIKELY 
FROM THESE STORMS. TAKE COVER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE 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.x

LAT...LON 4133 11644 4126 11570 4154 11462 4182 11470
          4168 11596

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 May 26, 8:30 AM PDT, 5 hours 10 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 26, 8:30 AM PDT, 5 hours 10 minutes before
NORTHERN GREAT BASIN FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV
830 AM PDT SAT MAY 26 2001

SHORT TERM...MID LEVEL DISTURBANCE MOVING THROUGH NORTHERN NEVADA
AND SOUTHERN OREGON/IDAHO IS APPARENT ON IR SATELLITE IMAGERY. THIS
SHORT WAVE IS SETTING OFF SOME THUNDERSTORMS THIS MORNING IN HUMBOLDT
COUNTY...SO HAVE ALREADY UPDATED THE MORNING PACKAGE TO ACCOUNT FOR
THIS. AS MORE LITTLE RIPPLES IN THE FLOW EJECT FROM THE TROUGH
CURRENTLY OFF THE CALIFORNIA COAST...THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL
CONTINUE OFF AND ON THROUGHOUT THE DAY. ADDITIONAL CONVECTION MAY
DEVELOP OVER OUR EAST CENTRAL ZONES LATE THIS AFTERNOON DUE TO
SURFACE HEATING. ANOTHER MORNING UPDATE MAY BE IN THE OFFING TO
REFINE PRECIPITATION ALONG THE IDAHO/OREGON BORDERS. PRS

.EKO...NONE.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Elko, NV issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 25, 6:13 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLKNElko32 min
May 26, 12:44 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLKNElko31 min
May 26, 2:48 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLKNHumboldt42 min
May 26, 2:55 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLKNElko50 min
May 26, 3:44 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLKNElko46 min
May 26, 3:49 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLKNHumboldt26 min
May 26, 4:15 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLKNElko45 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Nevada, 2001Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2001

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.