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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 35, NWS Elko, NV

August 17, 2004Humboldt County, Lander County, Nevada

NWS Elko, NV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 17, 2004, 6:15 PM PDT for Humboldt County, Lander County, Nevada. It was in force for 60 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 17, 2004, 6:15 PM PDT (01:15 UTC)
Expired: Aug 17, 2004, 7:15 PM PDT
In force: 60 min
Issued by: NWS Elko, NV
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Humboldt County, NV, Lander County, NV

The radar

The Elko radar (KLRX), 17 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:14 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

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, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 159 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 4095 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 27 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 65 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WUUS55 KLKN 180115
SVRLKN
NVC013-015-180215-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV
615 PM PDT TUE AUG 17 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ELKO HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTH CENTRAL LANDER COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL NEVADA
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...BATTLE MOUNTAIN...ARGENTA
  EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN HUMBOLDT COUNTY IN NORTHWEST NEVADA
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF VALMY

* UNTIL 715 PM PDT

* AT 612 PM PDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DIME SIZE HAIL...AND
  DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR   
  VALMY...AND MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  BATTLE MOUNTAIN BY 645 PM PDT

LAT...LON 4083 11715 4070 11733 4037 11701 4039 11661
      4062 11661 4077 11687

$$
SLA

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 Aug 17, 2:13 PM PDT, 4 hours 2 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 17, 2:13 PM PDT, 4 hours 2 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV
213 PM PDT TUE AUG 17 2004

.SYNOPSIS...ABUNDANT MOISTURE OVER NORTHERN AND CENTRAL NEVADA WILL
BRING A THREAT OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TO THE AREA TONIGHT
THROUGH THE WEEKEND.
&&

.DISCUSSION...UPPER LOW CENTER OVER SLC ROTATING WRAP AROUND MOISTURE
OVER CWA TODAY. MAIN PCPN BAND OVER ELKO AND WHITE PINE COUNTIES THIS
AFTERNOON EXPECT TO DRIFT INTO EXTREME EASTERN CWA OVERNIGHT. WITH
LIS NEAR ZERO THROUGH MIDNIGHT AND PLENTY OF RESIDUAL MOISTURE...WILL
KEEP FLASH FLOOD WATCH OUT THROUGH 10 PM THIS EVENING FOR ALL ZONES
EXCEPT NORTHERN NYE. AT SAME TIME...STRONG TSTMS ARE DEVELOPING
BEHIND TROF IN WESTERN NEVADA ATTM. SECOND SHORTWAVE THEN ROTATES
OVER EASTERN ZONES ON WEDNESDAY FOR ANOTHER ACTIVE TSTM DAY. AIRMASS
REMAINS UNSTABLE UNDER A WEAK RIDGE THURSDAY THROUGH THE WEEKEND FOR
AFTN AND EVENING TSTMS EACH DAY. DRIER NORTHWEST FLOW FORECASTED TO
DEVELOP LATE SUNDAY INTO NEXT MONDAY FOR RETURN TO A DRIER AND STABLE
AIRMASS...BUT MODELS HAVING PROBLEM PLACING LOCATION OF UPPER LOW OFF
SOUTHERN CA COAST. WILL HAVE MONDAY AND TUESDAY DRY. HARMER
&&

.LKN WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...FLOOD WATCH FOR FLASH FLOODING
IN EFFECT THROUGH 1000 PM PDT TONIGHT FOR NORTH AND CENTRAL NEVADA
ZONES 030>037. &&

HARMER

Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 17, 6:00 AM PDT, 12 hours 15 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV
600 AM PDT TUE AUG 17 2004

NVZ013-030>037-180300-
EXTREME EASTERN ELKO COUNTY-HUMBOLDT COUNTY-NORTHERN ELKO COUNTY-
NORTHERN LANDER AND NORTHERN EUREKA COUNTIES-NORTHERN NYE COUNTY-
RUBY MOUNTAINS/EAST HUMBOLDT RANGE-
SOUTHERN LANDER AND SOUTHERN EUREKA COUNTIES-
SOUTHWEST AND SOUTH CENTRAL ELKO COUNTY-WHITE PINE COUNTY-
600 AM PDT TUE AUG 17 2004

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL AND NORTHERN NEVADA

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

MONSOON MOISTURE COMBINED WITH AN UNSTABLE AIR MASS OVER THE AREA
WILL TRIGGER WIDESPREAD SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TODAY OVER NORTHERN
AND CENTRAL NEVADA. SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE LOCALLY
HEAVY RAIN OVER THE SAME AREA FOR AN EXTENDED PERIOD OF TIME. DUE TO
THE POTENTIAL FOR LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL AMOUNTS IN A SHORT PERIOD
OF TIME...A FLOOD WATCH FOR FLASH FLOODING IS IN EFFECT FOR NORTHERN
AND CENTRAL NEVADA. FOR FURTHER DETAILS...PLEASE SEE PRODUCT
RNOFFALKN...WGUS65 KLKN

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY

SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE PERIOD.
SOME OF THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN...ESPECIALLY OVER EAST
AND NORTHEAST NEVADA. THE SLIGHT POSSIBILITY OF FLASH FLOODING EXISTS
OVER EASTERN NEVADA THROUGH SATURDAY BEFORE THE ARRIVAL OF A DRIER
AIR MASS ON MONDAY.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTERS ARE ASKED TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER CONDITIONS ACCORDING
TO STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES.

TRUDEL

In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 17, 4:56 PM PDT, 1 hour 19 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV
456 PM PDT TUE AUG 17 2004

..TIME...   ...EVENT...     ...CITY LOCATION...      ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....     ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0600 AM     HEAVY RAIN       4 S BEOWAWE             40.53N 116.47W
08/17/2004  1.68 INCH        EUREKA             NV   CO-OP OBSERVER

            COOP OBSERVER REPORTED 1.68 INCHES OF RAINFALL FROM
            MONDAY EVENING UNTIL 6 AM TUESDAY. STATE HIGHWAY 306 WAS
            REPORTED FLOODED 4 MILES SOUTH OF BEOWAWE WITH SOME
            HIGHWAY EROSION REPORTED.

&&

CLAYCOMB

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 17, 5:19 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LKN	Humboldt, Lander	56 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.