Alert archive / Nevada / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2008
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 5, NWS Elko, NV
NWS Elko, NV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 21, 2008, 1:50 PM PDT for Lander County, Nevada. It was in force for 25 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 21, 2008, 1:50 PM PDT (20:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 21, 2008, 2:15 PM PDT
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Elko, NV
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Lander County, NV
The radar
The Elko radar (KLRX), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:53 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, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 107 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
- 26 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -186 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1658 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -21 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 58 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 21, 3:00 AM PDT, 10 hours 50 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 21, 3:00 AM PDT, 10 hours 50 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 21, 3:49 AM PDT, 10 hours 1 minute before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV 349 AM PDT MON JUL 21 2008 NVZ013-030>037-220000- EXTREME EASTERN ELKO COUNTY-HUMBOLDT COUNTY-NORTHERN ELKO COUNTY- NORTHERN LANDER AND NORTHERN EUREKA COUNTIES-NORTHERN NYE COUNTY- RUBY MOUNTAINS/EAST HUMBOLDT RANGE- SOUTHERN LANDER AND SOUTHERN EUREKA COUNTIES- SOUTHWEST AND SOUTH CENTRAL ELKO COUNTY-WHITE PINE COUNTY- 349 AM PDT MON JUL 21 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHERN AND CENTRAL NEVADA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL REFORM OVER NORTHERN AND CENTRAL NEVADA TODAY. ALONG WITH THE USUALLY GUSTY WINDS AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING...THESE STORMS WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE HEAVY RAINFALLS. SLOW MOVING OR TRAINING STORM SYSTEMS WILL ALSO BRING THE THREAT OF FLASH FLOODING. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHERN NEVADA...IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY THROUGH MIDNIGHT. SHOWERS WILL DIMINISH FROM WEST TO EAST THIS EVENING AND OVERNIGHT AS DRIER AIR MOVES IN FROM THE WEST. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY. A SLIGHT CHANCE OF AFTERNOON AND EVENING THUNDERSTORMS WILL LINGER ACROSS PORTIONS OF CENTRAL AND EASTERN NEVADA THROUGH THE WEEK. THE THREAT OF SHOWERS INCREASES A LITTLE MORE FRIDAY AND SATURDAY AS ADDITIONAL MONSOON MOISTURE MOVES INTO CENTRAL AND EASTERN NEVADA. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER CONDITIONS ACCORDING TO STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES. ROOD
The office that day
Everything else NWS Elko, NV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 21, 3:48 AM PDT | Flash Flood Watch | LKN | Elko, Eureka, Humboldt, Lander, White Pine | 20 hr |
| Jul 21, 2:09 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LKN | Lander | 51 min |
| Jul 21, 2:40 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LKN | Eureka | 35 min |
| Jul 21, 3:06 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LKN | Eureka, Lander | 39 min |
| Jul 21, 3:16 PM PDT | Tornado Warning | LKN | Eureka, Lander | 29 min |
| Jul 21, 3:39 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LKN | Humboldt | 36 min |
| Jul 21, 4:29 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LKN | Elko | 31 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.