Alert archive / Nevada / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Elko, NV
NWS Elko, NV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 3, 2004, 7:19 PM PDT for Elko County, Nevada. It was in force for 41 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 3, 2004, 7:19 PM PDT (02:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 3, 2004, 8:00 PM PDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Elko, NV
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Elko County, NV
The radar
The Salt Lake City radar (KMTX), 179 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:22 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
Elko, NV (KLKN), launched 00:00Z, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 105 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
- 63 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -75 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3788 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -12 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 94 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
336 WUUS55 KLKN 040219 SVRLKN NVC007-040300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV 715 PM PDT THU JUN 3 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHEASTERN ELKO COUNTY IN NORTHEAST NEVADA * UNTIL 800 PM PDT * AT 710 PM PDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER NORTHEASTERN ELKO COUNTY...OR ABOUT 8 MILES EAST OF CONTACT...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... RURAL NORTHEASTERN ELKO COUNTY AT 730 PM PDT DAMAGING WINDS TO 60 MPH AND LARGE HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM. 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 4178 11475 4165 11458 4180 11401 4196 11427 $$ PELOQUIN
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 3, 1:58 PM PDT, 5 hours 21 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 3, 1:58 PM PDT, 5 hours 21 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV 200 PM PDT THUR JUN 3 2004 .SYNOPSIS...HIGH PRESSURE OVER THE WESTERN UNITED STATES WILL RESULT IN DRY CONDITIONS AND ABOVE NORMAL DAYTIME TEMPERATURES IN THE GREAT BASIN THROUGH THIS WEEKEND. A WEATHER SYSTEM WILL MOVE INTO THE REGION NEXT WEEK BRINGING A RISK OF UNSETTLED WEATHER...AN INCREASE IN WINDS AND COOLER TEMPERATURES TO NEVADA EARLY NEXT WEEK. && .DISCUSSION...CU DEVELOPMENT CONTINUING OVER MTNS IN ERN AND CENTRAL NV ATTM AND WILL CONTINUE WATCH TO SEE IF THERE IS ANY LIGHTNING ACTIVITY ACROSS THE REGION LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING. WITH UPPER RIDGE REMAINING OVER THE WRN U.S. FOR THE NEXT FEW DAYS WILL CONTINUE TO SEE TEMPS WELL ABOVE NORMAL WITH SOME SITES NEAR RECORDS AS TEMPS RISE INTO THE 90S IN SOME LOCATIONS. LOOKING AT FIRE WEATHER...RELATIVE HUMIDITY RECOVERIES WILL CONTINUE TO BE POOR INTO THE WEEKEND AS WELL. WILL CONTINUE WITH SCHC FOR DRY TSTORMS THROUGH SATURDAY GIVEN INSTABILITY AND DAYTIME HEATING THOUGH GFS MAY BE OVERDONE ON SATURDAY WITH MIDLEVEL MOISTURE AND SUBSEQUENTLY IS TOO STRONG WITH THETA-E AXIS OVER EAST CENTRAL NV. AS WE GET INTO THE WEEKEND...NEXT UPPER LEVEL TROUGH STARTS TO APPROACH THE PACIFIC NW WILL SEE TEMPS COOL SLIGHTLY WITH INCREASE IN WINDS...MOST NOTABLY ON SUNDAY AS WINDS SHOULD BE BREEZY...IF NOT STRONGER. MAIN TROUGH AXIS WILL SWING INTO THE REGION ON MONDAY WITH WINDS CONTINUING AS FRONTAL SYSTEM MOVES THROUGH THE REGION. AS TROUGH AXIS SHIFTS OVER NEVADA ON TUESDAY HAVE STRONG DYNAMICS AND HAVE ADDED POPS WITH TSTORM POTENTIAL FOR TUESDAY. WILL ONLY GO WITH SLIGHT CHANCE FOR NORTHERN PART OF FORECAST AREA AT THE MOMENT GIVEN UNCERTAINTY BUT MODELS STARTING TO SHOW SOME CONSISTENCY HERE EVEN WITH UKMET/CANADIAN SOLUTIONS SHOWING TROUGH BEING MUCH MORE PROGRESSIVE THAN OTHER MODELS WHICH SHOW SLOWER CUTOFF LOW SOLUTION. WILL GO WITH SLOWER SOLUTIONS AND HAVE DROPPED TEMPERATURES FOR THE MAJORITY OF THE EXTENDED AS THESE SYSTEMS SEEM TO BE SLOWER THAN QUICKER IN LEAVING THE REGION. && .LKN WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE. && FEHRN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Elko, NV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 3, 5:22 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LKN | Elko | 23 min |
| Jun 3, 5:37 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LKN | Elko | 23 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.