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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 10, NWS Elko, NV
NWS Elko, NV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 25, 2006, 3:56 PM PDT for Elko County, Nevada. It was in force for 34 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 25, 2006, 3:56 PM PDT (22:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 25, 2006, 4:30 PM PDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Elko, NV
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Elko County, NV
The radar
The Elko radar (KLRX), 129 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:56 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
Elko, NV (KLKN), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 102 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3515 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -18 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 19 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 25, 2:13 PM PDT, 1 hour 43 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 25, 2:13 PM PDT, 1 hour 43 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV 213 PM PDT SUN JUN 25 2006 .SYNOPSIS...STRONG HIGH PRESSURE WILL RESIDE OVER NEVADA THROUGH TUESDAY. HIGH LEVEL MOISTURE OVER CENTRAL NEVADA WILL SPREAD NORTH OVER THE NEXT COUPLE DAYS...INCREASING THE THREAT OF THUNDERSTORMS. MOISTURE WILL INCREASE LATER IN THE WEEK FOR A GREATER CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION WITH THE THUNDERSTORMS. && .SHORT TERM...TONIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY. UPPER HIGH CENTERED OVER WEST CENTRAL NV WITH WEAK ANTICYCLONICALLY CURVED JET MAX ALONG NRN NV BORDER. ENOUGH DIVERGENCE ALOFT ASSOCIATED WITH JET TO INCREASE HIGH LEVEL LIFT AND MOISTURE. SINCE NAM HAD NO HANDLE ON THE NORTHWARD EXTENT OF TODAYS CONVECTION...WILL LEAN TOWARD THE GFS SOLUTION NEXT COUPLE DAYS. MAIN CONVECTIVE BAND CONTINUES TO DEVELOP OVER CENTRAL NV AND FITS NICELY WITH H5-7 THETA E RIDGE. THIS SAME RIDGE EXTENDS INTO WESTERN HUMBOLDT COUNTY AND SHOULD SEE SOME LATE DAY CONVECTION IN THAT AREA. ACTIVITY SHIFTS A LITTLE FURTHER EAST MONDAY WITH DEW PTS CREEPING UP. STILL LOOKS PLENTY DRY ENOUGH FOR FIRE WEATHER WATCH WEST MONDAY AFTERNOON AND THROUGHOUT CWFA TUE AFTERNOON. CONVECTIVE COVERAGE SHOULD EASILY GET INTO WIDELY SCATTERED CATEGORY NEXT COUPLE DAYS. THINGS TURN WETTER AFTER TUESDAY AS FLOW TURNS SOUTH TO SOUTHWEST. TEMPS TO REMAIN ABOVE NORMAL WITH GRADUAL TREND TOWARD INCREASING HUMIDITY. .LONG TERM...TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY. ALL MEDIUM RANGE MODELS IN GOOD AGREEMENT WITH UPPER RIDGE AXIS MOVING EAST OF AREA TUESDAY NIGHT INTO WEDNESDAY. THIS WILL ALLOW MONSOON MOISTURE TO THE SOUTH AND WEST TO MOVE ACROSS CENTRAL AND NORTHERN NEVADA. THUNDERSTORMS WILL TRANSITION QUICKLY TO WET TYPE. MODELS KEEP US IN MOIST UNSTABLE SOUTHERLY TO SOUTHWESTERLY FLOW THROUGH SATURDAY... AND THEN DRY US ON SUNDAY AS RIDGE REBUILDS. MADE ONLY SLIGHT TWEAKS TO PREVIOUS FORECAST. RCS && .AVIATION...VFR...EXCEPT IN AND NEAR ISOLATED AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE HIGHER TERRAIN OF CENTRAL NEVADA. REA && .LKN WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Elko, NV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 2:04 PM PDT | Fire Weather Watch | LKN | 23 hr | |
| Jun 25, 2:04 PM PDT | Fire Weather Watch | LKN | 24 hr | |
| Jun 25, 3:28 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LKN | Elko | 32 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.