Alert archive / Nevada / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2012
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Elko, NV
NWS Elko, NV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 17, 2012, 5:28 PM PDT for Elko County, White Pine County, Nevada. It was in force for 47 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
- May 17, 2012, 5:28 PM PDT (00:28 UTC)
- Expired
- May 17, 2012, 6:15 PM PDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Elko, NV
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Elko County, NV, White Pine County, NV
The radar
The Elko radar (KLRX), 210 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:28 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
Elko, NV (KLKN), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 106 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 6130 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -39 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 119 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
394
WUUS55 KLKN 180028
SVRLKN
NVC007-033-180115-
/O.NEW.KLKN.SV.W.0002.120518T0028Z-120518T0115Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV
528 PM PDT THU MAY 17 2012
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ELKO HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
NORTH CENTRAL WHITE PINE COUNTY IN EASTERN NEVADA...
THIS INCLUDES THE TOWNS OF...SCHELLBOURNE...LAGES JUNCTION...
SOUTHEASTERN ELKO COUNTY IN NORTHEAST NEVADA...
THIS INCLUDES THE TOWN OF CURRIE...
THIS ALSO INCLUDES HIGHWAYS 93 AND 93 ALTERNATE...
* UNTIL 615 PM PDT
* AT 522 PM PDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS IN
EXCESS OF 60 MPH...SEVERE BLOWING DUST...AND PENNY SIZED HAIL.
THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 8 MILES SOUTHEAST OF SCHELLBOURNE...AND
MOVING NORTH AT 45 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
LAGES JUNCTION...SCHELLBOURNE
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH...PREPARE
IMMEDIATELY FOR DAMAGING WINDS...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...AND DEADLY CLOUD
TO GROUND LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER...
PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
&&
LAT...LON 3968 11434 3971 11485 4012 11481 4027 11479
4029 11415
TIME...MOT...LOC 0025Z 196DEG 38KT 3978 11455
$$
BB1 follow-up statement
246
WWUS55 KLKN 180108
SVSLKN
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV
608 PM PDT THU MAY 17 2012
NVC007-033-180115-
/O.CON.KLKN.SV.W.0002.000000T0000Z-120518T0115Z/
ELKO NV-WHITE PINE NV-
608 PM PDT THU MAY 17 2012
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 615 PM PDT
FOR NORTH CENTRAL WHITE PINE AND SOUTHEASTERN ELKO COUNTIES...
AT 606 PM PDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM...ALTHOUGH THE STORM WAS RAPIDLY
WEAKENING.. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 15 MILES NORTHEAST OF LAGES
JUNCTION...MOVING NORTH AT 45 MPH. REMEMBER THAT EVEN WEAK STORMS
PRODUCE DEADLY LIGHTNING AND GUSTY WINDS.
THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE AT 615 PM
PST.
&&
LAT...LON 3968 11434 3971 11485 4012 11481 4027 11479
4029 11415
TIME...MOT...LOC 0106Z 196DEG 38KT 4020 11439
$$
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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.