Alert archive / Nevada / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 6, NWS Elko, NV
NWS Elko, NV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 18, 2003, 2:25 PM PDT for Lander 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 as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 18, 2003, 2:25 PM PDT (21:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 18, 2003, 3:00 PM PDT
- In force
- 35 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 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 168 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
- 113 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -244 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2568 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 24 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
376 WUUS55 KLKN 182125 SVRLKN NVC015-182200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV 223 PM PDT WED JUN 18 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHEASTERN LANDER COUNTY IN NEVADA THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...BATTLE MOUNTAIN * UNTIL 300 PM PDT * AT 215 PM PDT...THE PUBLIC REPORTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER BATTLE MOUNTAIN...MOVING NORTH AT 20 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... RURAL NORTHERN LANDER COUNTY AT 240 PM PDT STRONG AND DAMAGING WINDS HAVE ALREADY BEEN REPORTED FROM THIS STORM...BUT THERE WILL BE LITTLE RAIN. TAKE COVER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE UNTIL THE STORM PASSES. REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE. LAT...LON 4054 11702 4052 11668 4080 11661 4097 11693 FEHRN
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 18, 9:00 AM PDT, 5 hours 25 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 18, 9:00 AM PDT, 5 hours 25 minutes before
NORTHERN GREAT BASIN FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV 900 AM PDT WED JUN 18 2003 .DISCUSSION...W/V IMAGERY SHOWS SPLITTING TROUGH ALONG WEST COAST THIS AM W/ MAIN VORT CENTER JUST ON THE NRN CA COAST. UPR JET ON FRONT SIDE OF THE TROUGH EXTENDS FM NRN CA INTO WA/OR AND THIS FEATURE IS ALREADY KICKING UP A FEW LIGHTNING STRIKES IN A BAND OF MOISTURE FM CA/NV BORDER NWD INTO OREGON. ANOTHER VERY WEAK VORT FEATURE RESIDES ACROSS CNTRL NV ATTM AND IS PRODUCING MAINLY MID-LVL CLOUDS AND EVEN A SINGLE LIGHTNING STRIKE IN SW EKO CNTY EARLY THIS AM. MAIN FCST CONCERN TDY IS CONVECTION IN NW NV AND HOW WET WILL IT BE. 7H THETA-E RIDGE AND THERMAL TROUGH THROUGH NW NV THIS MORNING SHIFTS SLIGHTLY EWD THIS AFT AS TROUGH COMES ONSHORE. BEST INSTABILITY WILL BE ACROSS HUMBOLDT CNTY W/ LIS NR -2 AND CAPES UP TO 500 J/KG. WITH CONVECTION ALREADY DEVELOPING IN THIS AREA AND SUPPORT FM RRQ OF UPR JET IN OREGON SCT TS LOOKS GOOD. WEAK FEATURE IN CNTRL NV ALSO LIFTS NWD THIS AFTERNOON AND BELIEVE THAT SFC HEATING WILL FURTHER DE-STABILIZE ATMOS IN NRN EKO CNTY. THERMAL TROUGH SHIFTING INTO NCNTRL NV THIS AFT WILL ALSO ADD TO THE LLVL CONV. WILL INCR COVG TO SCT ALONG THE REST OF THE NORTH AS WELL. FAIRLY SHARP E-W MOISTURE GRADIENT ACROSS THE STATE WITH PWS NR 2/3 AND DWPTS NR 50F ALONG THE SIERRAS TO LESS THAN 1/2 AND DWPTS IN THE LOWER 30S MOST OF NV. WITH DWPTS IN THE 30S IN HUMBOLDT CNTY THIS MORNING EXPECT STORMS TO START OFF DRY AND TRANSITION TO WET THIS EVENING. FOR THIS REASON FIRE WEATHER WATCH HAS BEEN UPGRADED TO RED FLAG WARNING FOR TODAY. MAY NOT NEED THE RED FLAG BY THIS EVENING... BUT WILL SEE HOW SITUATION DEVELOPS THIS AFTERNOON. EKO...RED FLAG WARNING NORTHWEST NEVADA ZONE 451...HUMBOLDT COUNTY FOR DRY LIGHTNING THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. HOENISCH
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 18, 6:50 AM PDT, 7 hours 35 minutes before
NVZ030>037-171400- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV 650 AM PDT WED JUN 18 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST AND EAST CENTRAL NEVADA .DAY ONE... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. HOWEVER...ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP IN LANDER AND HUMBOLDT COUNTIES THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. A FEW STRONG STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF WIND GUSTS OVER 50 MPH WITH BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL AND SMALL HAIL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER CONDITIONS ACCORDING TO STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES. SMITH
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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.