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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 14, NWS Elko, NV
NWS Elko, NV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 16, 2002, 3:58 PM PDT for Elko County, Nevada. It was in force for 32 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 16, 2002, 3:58 PM PDT (22:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 16, 2002, 4:30 PM PDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Elko, NV
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Elko County, NV
Did it verify
Not verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow found no qualifying storm report inside this severe thunderstorm warning while it was in force. That is not proof nothing happened: reports are thin where few people live.
Cow counts a report within 15 km of the polygon while the warning was in force: a tornado for a tornado warning; hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more or wind damage for a severe thunderstorm warning; a flash flood report for a flash flood warning.
The nearest sounding before it
Elko, NV (KLKN), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 117 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
- -375 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2577 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 21 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 50 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
718 WUUS55 KLKN 162258 SVRLKN NVC007-162330- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV 357 PM PDT TUE JUL 16 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CENTRAL ELKO COUNTY IN NEVADA THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...SPRING CREEK...SOUTH FORK...RYNDON... RUBY VALLEY...LEE...LAMOILLE...ELKO...CLOVER VALLEY * UNTIL 430 PM PDT * AT 359 PM PDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER LEE...OR ABOUT 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF LEE... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF LAMOILLE AT 410 PM PDT 7 MILES WEST OF RUBY VALLEY AT 430 PM PDT STRONG AND DAMAGING WINDS ARE LIKELY FROM THIS STORM...BUT THERE WILL BE LITTLE RAIN. TAKE COVER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE UNTIL THE STORM PASSES. WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH HAVE BEEN REPORTED AHEAD OF THIS STORM IN THE SPRING CREEK AREA. 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 4081 11605 4045 11545 4082 11479 4133 11560
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 Jul 16, 2:15 PM PDT, 1 hour 43 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 16, 2:15 PM PDT, 1 hour 43 minutes before
NORTHERN GREAT BASIN FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV 215 PM PDT TUE JUL 16 2002 CONVECTION ACROSS THE AREA HAS FIRED EARLIER THAN YTDY ACROSS CNTRL NV AND ALSO A BIT STRONGER. ALONG THE UTAH AND IDAHO BORDERS...DENSE CLOUD COVER HAS HELD BACK TEMPS AND INSTABILITY BUT STILL EXPECT AT LEAST ISOLATED IF NOT SCT COVERAGE HERE THIS EVENING. CONVECTION WILL BE WET...WITH EVEN SOME SMALL HAIL FROM THE STRONGEST STORMS. OVERNIGHT EXPECT SOME DRYING TO OCCUR WITH SW FLOW ALOFT BEGINNING. HOWEVER...EXPECT THIS TO BE SHORT-LIVED AS UPSTREAM SYSTEM NR 130W APPROACHES THE AREA. AVN INITIALIZED THIS FEATURE BEST AND BELIEVE IT HAS A BETTER HANDLE ALBEIT A LITTLE STRONG. STILL...MODELS IN DECENT AGREEMENT EXCEPT ON MOISTURE. WILL GO WITH MOISTURE BLEND AS AVN HAS A WET BIAS AND ETA/MESO HAS BEEN TOO DRY OF LATE. EXPECT ONLY ISOLD CONVECTION AT BEST NORTH TOMORROW WITH THE DRYING...BUT THERE MAY BE ENOUGH RESIDUAL MOISTURE FOR A COUPLE STORMS. ALONG HIGHWAY 50...EXPECT DRYING AS WELL...BUT WITH SOME MOISTURE PROGGED TO INCREASE PER ETA/META WILL GO LOW END CHANCE. THIS MAY BE A LITTLE EARLY...BUT DYNAMICS FROM S/W ALSO ON THE INCREASE. JET IN FAVORABLE POSITION BEGINNING 00Z THU AND CONTINUING THROUGH AT LEAST 06Z. BOTH AVN/META SHOW RRQ OF 50KT H25 JET AND POSSIBILITY OF COUPLING WITH ANOTHER 50KT STREAK ROUNDING THE BASE OF THE WAVE. MOISTURE CONTINUES TO INCREASE PER AVN/META THUS WILL GO 40 PCT ACROSS THE BOARD WITH INCREASED DYNAMICS AND NOT USE ANY TEMPORAL WORDING. ON THURS...TROUGH CLOSER IN CA CNTRL VALLEY BUT DYNAMICS ARE OUT OF THE AREA. THUS...WILL HAVE TO RELY ON TERRAIN TO SPARK STORMS...BUT MOISTURE AT THIS POINT IS BEST. WILL GO LOW CHC ATTM WITH USUAL DIURNAL FOCUS OF AFTERNOON IN MOST ZONES. WED NIGHT AND THURS MAY BE OUR BEST SHOT AT ANY WIDESPREAD RAIN FOR AWHILE. THURS NIGHT AND FRIDAY...DRYING SOUTHWEST FLOW BEGINS ONCE AGAIN...BUT LOOKS FAIRLY WEAK. THUS WILL TAPER TO SLIGHT CHC ALL ZONES AS MODELS CAN BE TOO AGGRESSIVE WITH DRYING. EXTENDED...MODELS IN FAIRLY GOOD AGREEMENT SHOWING THE HIGH BUILDING BACK TOWARD THE FOUR CORNERS. SOME (GEM/EURO) EVEN SHOW WEAK UPPER LOW OFF CA COAST BY SUN WITH GOOD SLY TO SELY FLOW BEGINNING AGAIN. STILL...DRYING DOES TAKE PLACE TO OUR SOUTH AND EAST SO NOT SURE HOW MUCH MOISTURE WILL BE ADVECTED IN. HOWEVER WITH FAVORABLE FLOW CURRENT EXTENDED PACKAGE LOOKS ON TRACK WITH DRY HUMBOLDT COUNTY AND SLIGHT CHC ELSEWHERE THROUGH THE PERIOD. WILL CONTINUE THIS WITH LOW CONFIDENCE UNTIL THINGS BECOME CLEARER. .EKO...NONE WALLMANN
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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.