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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Elko, NV

July 27, 2008Nye County, Nevada

NWS Elko, NV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 27, 2008, 2:21 PM PDT for Nye County, Nevada. It was in force for 28 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: Jul 27, 2008, 2:21 PM PDT (21:21 UTC)
Expired: Jul 27, 2008, 2:49 PM PDT
In force: 28 min
Issued by: NWS Elko, NV
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Nye County, NV

The radar

The Elko radar (KLRX), 200 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:23 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

Reno, NV (KREV), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 199 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: 3199 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 41 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 132 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WUUS55 KLKN 272122
SVRLKN
NVC023-272200-
/O.NEW.KLKN.SV.W.0021.080727T2121Z-080727T2200Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV
221 PM PDT SUN JUL 27 2008

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ELKO HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTH CENTRAL NYE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEVADA...

* UNTIL 300 PM PDT

* AT 219 PM PDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED OVER NORTH CENTRAL NYE
  COUNTY...OR ABOUT 22 MILES WEST OF DUCKWATER...AND MOVING EAST AT 5
  MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  RURAL NORTHERN NYE COUNTY AT 240 PM PDT

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH...PREPARE 
IMMEDIATELY FOR DAMAGING WINDS AND DEADLY CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. 
PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER...PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG 
BUILDING BUT AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

LAT...LON 3915 11592 3904 11576 3887 11611 3906 11623
TIME...MOT...LOC 2121Z 261DEG 3KT 3896 11612

$$

CEC

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS55 KLKN 272149
SVSLKN

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV
246 PM PDT SUN JUL 27 2008

NVC023-272156-
/O.CAN.KLKN.SV.W.0021.000000T0000Z-080727T2200Z/
NYE NV-
246 PM PDT SUN JUL 27 2008

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTH CENTRAL NYE COUNTY IS 
CANCELLED...

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER CENTRAL NORTHERN NYE COUNTY HAS 
DECREASED BELOW SEVERE LEVELS.

LAT...LON 3915 11592 3904 11576 3887 11611 3906 11623
TIME...MOT...LOC 2146Z 261DEG 3KT 3896 11609

$$

JH

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 27, 2:01 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LKN	White Pine	44 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.