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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 19, NWS Elko, NV
NWS Elko, NV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 22, 2008, 11:35 AM PDT for Elko County, Nevada. It was in force for 40 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 22, 2008, 11:35 AM PDT (18:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 22, 2008, 12:15 PM PDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Elko, NV
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Elko County, NV
The radar
The Elko radar (KLRX), 129 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:36 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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
Boise Airport, ID (KBOI), launched 12:00Z, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 278 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
- 209 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -113 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1735 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 75 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 73 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
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 22, 2:21 AM PDT, 9 hours 14 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 22, 2:21 AM PDT, 9 hours 14 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Elko, NV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 21, 6:42 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LKN | Humboldt | 33 min |
| Jul 21, 6:54 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LKN | Lander | 36 min |
| Jul 21, 7:01 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LKN | Lander | 29 min |
| Jul 21, 7:24 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LKN | Lander | 36 min |
| Jul 21, 7:27 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LKN | Lander | 33 min |
| Jul 21, 7:54 PM PDT | Tornado Warning | LKN | Lander | 36 min |
| Jul 21, 8:13 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LKN | Lander | 32 min |
| Jul 21, 8:30 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | LKN | Lander | 60 min |
| Jul 21, 8:52 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LKN | Eureka, Lander | 23 min |
| Jul 21, 9:15 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LKN | Eureka, Lander | 30 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Nevada, 2008Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2008
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.