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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Elko, NV

August 22, 2003Humboldt County, Nevada

NWS Elko, NV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 22, 2003, 1:05 PM PDT for Humboldt County, Nevada. It was in force for 55 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: Aug 22, 2003, 1:05 PM PDT (20:05 UTC)
Expired: Aug 22, 2003, 2:00 PM PDT
In force: 55 min
Issued by: NWS Elko, NV
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Humboldt County, NV

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Aug 22, 12:55 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Reno, NV (KREV), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 185 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 184 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -109 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1102 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 49 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 83 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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The text

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

000 
WUUS55 KLKN 222005
SVRLKN
NVC013-222100-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV
103 PM PDT FRI AUG 22 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL HUMBOLDT COUNTY IN NEVADA
  THIS INCLUDES PARADISE VALLEY

* UNTIL 200 PM PDT

* AT 100 PM PDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 43 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PARADISE VALLEY...OR
  ABOUT 22 MILES WEST OF WINNEMUCCA...MOVING NORTH AT 20 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE...
  OVER PARADISE VALLEY BY 120 PM PDT

* AN OBSERVER REPORTED HALF INCH HAIL AT 1250 PM ABOUT 10 MILES   
  NORTH OF WINNEMUCCA.

REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY
WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST
OFFICE.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM PDT FRIDAY
EVENING FOR NEVADA.

LAT...LON 4101 11822 4096 11728 4153 11730 4155 11833

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 21, 8:28 PM PDT	Flash Flood Warning	LKN	Elko, Eureka	4 hr
Aug 22, 12:49 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LKN	Elko	26 min
Aug 22, 1:07 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LKN	Lander	53 min
Aug 22, 2:01 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LKN	Lander	44 min
Aug 22, 2:07 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LKN	Humboldt	53 min
Aug 22, 2:44 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LKN	Eureka	31 min
Aug 22, 3:02 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LKN	Elko	58 min
Aug 22, 3:48 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LKN	Elko	42 min
Aug 22, 4:11 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LKN	Lander	34 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.