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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 14, NWS Elko, NV
NWS Elko, NV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 6, 2006, 2:02 PM PDT for Eureka County, Nevada. It was in force for 58 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
- Jul 6, 2006, 2:02 PM PDT (21:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 6, 2006, 3:00 PM PDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Elko, NV
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Eureka County, NV
The radar
The Elko radar (KLRX), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:03 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
Mercury/Desert R, NV (KDRA), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 375 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
- 20 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -251 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2719 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 54 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 85 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 Jul 6, 12:17 PM PDT, 1 hour 45 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 6, 12:17 PM PDT, 1 hour 45 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV 1217 PM PDT THU JUL 6 2006 .SYNOPSIS...SHOWER AND THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY WILL INCREASE ONCE AGAIN THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS NORTHEASTERN AND CENTRAL NEVADA. A DRIER WESTERLY FLOW WILL BEGIN TO MOVE INTO EASTERN NEVADA FRIDAY FOR A DECREASING RISK OF THUNDERSTORMS. SHOWER AND THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY WILL BEGIN TO INCREASE AGAIN OVER THE WEEKEND ACROSS EASTERN NEVADA. && SHORT TERM...RIGHT REAR QUADRANT OF A 60KT H3 JET PASSING OVER SOUTHEASTERN PORTION OF CWA HAS BROUGHT SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TO WHITE PINE COUNTY THIS MORNING...WHICH SHOULD CONTINUE INTO THE AFTERNOON BEFORE THE JET MOVES OFF TO THE NE. ANOTHER 60-65KT H3 JET IS ALSO MOVING IN FROM THE WEST ACROSS NORTHERN NEVADA...WHICH WILL BRING ADDED INSTABILITY TO MUCH OF THE NORTHEAST CORNER OF NEVADA THIS AFTERNOON...GENERALLY THE SAME AREAS THAT HAD SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS YESTERDAY ...HOWEVER EXPECTING AREAS EAST OF THE RUBIES TO STAY ACTIVE LATER INTO TONIGHT THAN LAST NIGHT. GOOD WIND SHEAR AND INSTABILITY THIS AFTERNOON...COUPLED WITH A MOIST AIRMASS OVER ELKO COUNTY COULD MAKE FOR AN INTERESTING AFTERNOON THUNDERSTORM-WISE. DRY AIR CONTINUES TO SLOWLY ADVANCE EAST ACROSS NEVADA...WHICH WILL LESSEN THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY ON FRIDAY. AN AREA OF INSTABILITY INCREASES ACROSS MAINLY WHITE PINE COUNTY ON SATURDAY WITH THETA-E RIDGING AND MOISTURE INCREASING FOR SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS SE CORNER OF CWA...WITH ISOLATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER MOST OF THE REST OF CWA...THE EXCEPTION BEING HUMBOLDT COUNTY WHERE THE DRIER MORE STABLE AIR SHOULD REMAIN STORM FREE. ROOD .LONG TERM...SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT...PREVIOUS FORECAST IN GREAT SHAPE. ONLY CHANGES MADE TO LONG TERM FORECAST WERE THE FIRST FEW PERIODS. INTRODUCED SLIGHT CHANCE WORDING FOR SUNDAY WEST TO THE REV BORDER GIVEN MID LEVEL MOISTURE TRENDING SLIGHTLY WEST BY THE GFS MODEL. LOWERED POPS FOR THE SUNDAY NIGHT PERIOD SLIGHTLY TO TAKE OUT WORDING. NOT CONVINCED ABOUT GFS PLACEMENT OF STRONG SHORTWAVE MOVING OVER THE AREA AT THAT TIME. WILL KEEP AN EYE ON LATER MODEL RUNS. OTHERWISE GOING FORECAST IN VERY GOOD SHAPE AS RUN CONSISTENCY REMAINS IN DECENT AGREEMENT. RA && .AVIATION...EXPECT SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VISIBILITIES DOWN TO 1-2SM...+TSRA AND SURFACE WIND GUSTS TO 35KT BETWEEN KLAS-KEKO AS WELL AS THE KLOL-KEKO-KSLC ROUTE...CONDITIONS IMPROVE AFTER 04Z. RA && .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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 5, 5:50 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LKN | Elko | 40 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Nevada, 2006Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2006
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.