Alert archive / Nevada / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 40, NWS Elko, NV
NWS Elko, NV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 13, 2001, 1:25 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
- Sep 13, 2001, 1:25 PM PDT (20:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 13, 2001, 2:00 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 Salt Lake City radar (KMTX), 150 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:29 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, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 68 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
- 103 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -222 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1034 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 61 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 87 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 137 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
324 WUUS55 KLKN 132026 SVREKO NVC007-132100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV 125 PM PDT THU SEP 13 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... EAST CENTRAL ELKO COUNTY IN NEVADA * UNTIL 200 PM PDT * AT 117 PM PDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER EXTREME EAST CENTRAL ELKO COUNTY...OR ABOUT 14 MILES NORTH OF MONTELLO...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... RURAL NORTHEASTERN ELKO COUNTY AT 140 PM PDT HAIL UP TO 1 INCHE IN DIAMETER IS INDICATED BY RADAR WITH THIS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THE STORM...PUT YOUR CAR IN A GARAGE AND MOVE TO A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE. LAT...LON 4148 11437 4132 11423 4147 11405 4165 11408
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 13, 8:10 AM PDT, 5 hours 15 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 13, 8:10 AM PDT, 5 hours 15 minutes before
NORTHERN GREAT BASIN FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV 810 AM PDT THU SEP 13 2001 IR SATELLITE INDICATES THE UPPER LOW WAS CENTERED OVER NW NEVADA THIS MORNING WITH SIGNIFICANT WRAP AROUND MOISTURE BEHIND IT. ACCAS HAS BEEN OBSERVED TO THE WEST OF EKO. LKN 12Z SOUNDING VERY UNSTABLE FOR HERE WITH LI OF -5.3. CURRENT ZONES CARRYING LOW POPS IN THE NORTH... IF LOW DOES NOT EXIT THE AREA QUICK ENOUGH THEN WILL END UP WITH STORMS ACROSS MUCH OF NORTHEAST NEVADA. RADAR INDICATES STORMS ARE ALREADY BEGINNING TO FIRE ACROSS THE EASTERN CWA. WILL UPDATE ZONES TO INCREASE FIRST PERIOD POPS. .EKO...NONE. 95
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, 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 |
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.