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Flash Flood Warning 8, NWS Elko, NV
NWS Elko, NV issued this flash flood warning at Aug 13, 2012, 5:44 PM PDT for White Pine County, Nevada. It was in force for 61 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
- Aug 13, 2012, 5:44 PM PDT (00:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 13, 2012, 6:45 PM PDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Elko, NV
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
County White Pine County, NV
The radar
The Elko radar (KLRX), 235 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:45 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Elko, NV (KLKN), launched 00:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 187 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
- 443 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -74 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2827 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 34 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 120 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
975 WGUS55 KLKN 140044 FFWLKN NVC033-140145- /O.NEW.KLKN.FF.W.0008.120814T0044Z-120814T0145Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV 544 PM PDT MON AUG 13 2012 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ELKO HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... CENTRAL WHITE PINE COUNTY IN EASTERN NEVADA... THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...RUTH...ELY AIRPORT...ELY... * UNTIL 645 PM PDT * AT 536 PM PDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN APPROACHING ELY IN CENTRAL WHITE PINE COUNTY. FLOOD WATERS FROM PREVIOUS THUNDERSTORMS HAVE RECEDED...BUT WITH SATURATED GROUND ADDITIONAL RAINFALL WILL QUICKLY CAUSE ADDITIONAL RUNOFF. STORMS WILL ALSO PRODUCE FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND WIND GUSTS TO 45 MPH AS THEY MOVE SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. LOCATIONS WITH THE POTENTIAL FOR FLOODING INCLUDE...ELY...ELY AIRPORT AND RUTH. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF ONE QUARTER TO ONE HALF INCH ARE POSSIBLE IN THE WARNED AREA. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...URBAN AREAS...HIGHWAYS...STREETS AND UNDERPASSES AS WELL AS OTHER DRAINAGE AREAS AND LOW LYING SPOTS. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. TO REPORT FLOODING...HAVE THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN ELKO. && LAT...LON 3933 11465 3909 11474 3915 11512 3940 11504 $$ TURNER
1 follow-up statement
221 WGUS75 KLKN 140140 FFSLKN FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV 640 PM PDT MON AUG 13 2012 NVC033-140147- /O.EXP.KLKN.FF.W.0008.000000T0000Z-120814T0145Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ WHITE PINE NV- 640 PM PDT MON AUG 13 2012 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 645 PM PDT FOR CENTRAL WHITE PINE COUNTY... THUNDERSTORMS THAT PRODUCED HEAVY RAINFALL AND FLASH FLOODING IN THE ELY AREA HAVE MOVED OUT OF THE AREA AND NO FURTHER HEAVY RAINFALL IS EXPECTED THIS EVENING. THEREFORE THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE AT 645 PM. && LAT...LON 3933 11465 3909 11474 3915 11512 3940 11504 $$ 91
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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.