Alert archive / Nevada / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 7, NWS Elko, NV
NWS Elko, NV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 2002, 7:03 PM PDT for Lander County, Nevada. It was in force for 27 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 2, 2002, 7:03 PM PDT (02:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 2, 2002, 7:30 PM PDT
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Elko, NV
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Lander 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
Reno, NV (KREV), launched 00:00Z, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 128 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
- 14 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -46 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3360 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -19 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 39 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
217 WUUS55 KLKN 030203 SVRLKN NVC015-030230- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV 702 PM PDT SUN JUN 2 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CENTRAL LANDER COUNTY IN NEVADA * UNTIL 730 PM PDT * AT 657 PM PDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER CENTRAL LANDER COUNTY...OR ABOUT 76 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ELKO...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... RURAL CENTRAL LANDER COUNTY AT 720 PM PDT VERY LARGE HAIL 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. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE. LAT...LON 4036 11720 4010 11701 4013 11662 4049 11714
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 2, 2:00 PM PDT, 5 hours 3 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 2, 2:00 PM PDT, 5 hours 3 minutes before
NORTHERN GREAT BASIN FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV 200 PM PDT SUN JUN 2 2002 SYNOPSIS...HIGH PRESSURE ALOFT WITH WARMER DRY AIR WILL MOVE INTO THE AREA PUTTING AN END TO THE SHOWERS BY MONDAY AFTERNOON. DISCUSSION...WILL CONTINUE SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THIS EVENING AND TAPER THEM OFF TO NOTHING BY MONDAY EVENING. MODELS MOVE TROF EAST AND START TO BUILD A RIDGE INTO NV BY THEN. LAST LINGERING INSTABILITY WILL BE OVER WHITE PINE COUNTY MONDAY. OTHERWISE...WARM AND DRY THROUGH THE EXTENDED. TROF MOVING THROUGH IDAHO FRIDAY AND SATURDAY WILL DECREASE 5H HGTS A BIT BUT ACTION SHOULD STAY TO OUR NORTH. BEST SHORTWAVE GOES THROUGH FRIDAY NIGHT BUT MOISTURE IS LIMITED AND NIGHTTIME AIRMASS IS MORE STABLE TO START WITH. NEYMAN .EKO...NONE.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 2, 2:47 PM PDT, 4 hours 16 minutes before
NVZ030>037-022330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV 1100 AM PDT SUN JUN 2 2002 ...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS TODAY... CONDITIONS ARE RIGHT TO PRODUCE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TODAY OVER NORTHERN NEVADA. THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE BRIEF PERIODS OF HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL. OCCASIONALLY A STORM MAY DEVELOP VERY QUICKLY AND PRODUCE A COLD AIR FUNNEL. THESE FUNNELS RARELY TOUCH DOWN AND ARE VERY SHORT LIVED. AT TIMES A DEVELOPING RAIN SHAFT CAN RESEMBLE A FUNNEL BUT SHOW LITTLE ROTATION. GUSTY WINDS CAN ALSO PRODUCE DUST DEVIL TYPE DISTURBANCES WHICH WILL PICK UP DEBRIS AND SWIRL IT AROUND. MOTORISTS AND OTHERS OUTDOORS SHOULD BEWARE OF THE ERRATIC GUSTY WINDS WHICH ARE ASSOCIATED WITH FLYING DEBRIS AND SUDDEN RAIN SHOWERS THAT REDUCE VISIBILITY. NEYMAN
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.