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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Elko, NV

June 27, 2004Humboldt County, Nevada

NWS Elko, NV issued this tornado warning at Jun 27, 2004, 2:23 PM PDT for Humboldt County, Nevada. It was in force for 22 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 27, 2004, 2:23 PM PDT (21:23 UTC)
Expired: Jun 27, 2004, 2:45 PM PDT
In force: 22 min
Issued by: NWS Elko, NV
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Humboldt County, NV

The radar

The Elko radar (KLRX), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:25 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Reno, NV (KREV), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 155 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: 2231 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 32 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 120 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

496 
WFUS55 KLKN 272123
TORLKN
NVC013-272145-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV
222 PM PDT SUN JUN 27 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTH CENTRAL HUMBOLDT COUNTY IN NORTHWEST NEVADA
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF WINNEMUCCA

* UNTIL 245 PM PDT

* AT 212 PM PDT...WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO 18 MILES 
SOUTHWEST OF WINNEMUCCA...MOVING NORTH AT 20 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
RURAL SOUTHERN HUMBOLDT COUNTY AT 240 PM PDT

THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A
WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS
AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN
INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO
COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A
SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE
NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.

LAT...LON 4073 11809 4068 11786 4127 11751 4134 11808

$$
CLAYCOMB

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 26, 5:23 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LKN	Elko	52 min
Jun 26, 5:29 PM PDT	Flash Flood Warning	LKN	Elko	2 hr
Jun 27, 1:39 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LKN	Elko	66 min
Jun 27, 2:14 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LKN	Elko, White Pine	31 min
Jun 27, 2:35 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LKN	Eureka	55 min
Jun 27, 3:21 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LKN	Elko	39 min
Jun 27, 3:57 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LKN	Elko	48 min

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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.