Alert archive / Nevada / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Elko, NV
NWS Elko, NV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 1, 2002, 1:04 PM PDT for Elko County, Eureka County, Nevada. It was in force for 26 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
- Jun 1, 2002, 1:04 PM PDT (20:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 1, 2002, 1:30 PM PDT
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Elko, NV
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Elko County, NV, Eureka 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, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 183 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
- 5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -366 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2394 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -48 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 67 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
531 WUUS55 KLKN 012004 SVRLKN NVC007-011-012030- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV 100 PM PDT SAT JUN 1 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CENTRAL ELKO COUNTY IN NEVADA NORTH CENTRAL EUREKA COUNTY IN NEVADA * UNTIL 130 PM PDT * AT 1250 PM PDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 21 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CARLIN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL CROSS INTERSTATE 80 AROUND 130 PM PDT INTENSE LIGHTNING AND BRIEF HEAVY RAIN IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. SOUTH WINDS GUSTS OVER 65 MPH ARE POSSIBLE AS THE STORM MOVES ACROSS INTERSTATE 80. REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE. LAT...LON 4077 11657 4050 11658 4060 11592 4082 11615
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 Jun 1, 9:00 AM PDT, 4 hours 4 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 1, 9:00 AM PDT, 4 hours 4 minutes before
NORTHERN GREAT BASIN FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV 900 AM PDT SAT JUN 1 2002 CURRENT FORECAST LOOKS ON MOSTLY TRACK WITH SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WHERE PROGGED AND FORECAST TO SPREAD INTO NORTHEASTERN NV BY 00Z THIS AFTERNOON. MAIN ENERGY FROM VORT MAXES NOW MOVING NORTHEAST ON SOUTHWEST FLOW SEEMS TO BE GOING INTO UT. HOWEVER RADAR SHOWS A THUNDERSTORM MOVING NORTH THROUGH LINCOLN COUNTY. WILL ISSUE NOWCAST FOR WHITEPINE COUNTY AND UPDATE TO ADJUST SOME FIRST PERIOD POPS AND WORDING. NEYMAN .EKO...NONE.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Elko, NV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 31, 6:41 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LKN | Elko, Eureka | 34 min |
| May 31, 6:43 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LKN | Elko, Eureka | 32 min |
| May 31, 6:45 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LKN | Elko, Eureka | 30 min |
| Jun 1, 1:07 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LKN | Elko, Eureka | 23 min |
| Jun 1, 1:10 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LKN | Elko, Eureka | 20 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.