Alert archive / Nevada / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2012
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Elko, NV
NWS Elko, NV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 31, 2012, 3:26 PM PDT for Eureka County, Lander 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
- Aug 31, 2012, 3:26 PM PDT (22:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 31, 2012, 3:54 PM PDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Elko, NV
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Eureka County, NV, Lander County, NV
The radar
The Elko radar (KLRX), 159 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:28 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
Reno, NV (KREV), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 156 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
- 3186 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 135 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 154 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
652 WUUS55 KLKN 312226 SVRLKN NVC011-015-312315- /O.NEW.KLKN.SV.W.0021.120831T2226Z-120831T2315Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV 326 PM PDT FRI AUG 31 2012 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ELKO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHWESTERN EUREKA COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL NEVADA... EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN LANDER COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL NEVADA... * UNTIL 415 PM PDT * AT 323 PM PDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED OVER EXTREME SOUTHWESTERN EUREKA COUNTY...OR 19 MILES SOUTHEAST OF HICKISON SUMMIT...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... RURAL EUREKA COUNTY SOUTH OF U.S. HIGHWAY 50... RURAL SOUTHWESTERN EUREKA COUNTY... RURAL SOUTHERN EUREKA COUNTY... 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 3951 11642 3934 11611 3916 11650 3921 11660 TIME...MOT...LOC 2226Z 212DEG 18KT 3921 11654 $$ TURNER
2 follow-up statements
086 WWUS55 KLKN 312243 SVSLKN SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV 343 PM PDT FRI AUG 31 2012 NVC011-015-312315- /O.CON.KLKN.SV.W.0021.000000T0000Z-120831T2315Z/ EUREKA NV-LANDER NV- 343 PM PDT FRI AUG 31 2012 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 415 PM PDT FOR LANDER AND SOUTHWESTERN EUREKA COUNTIES... AT 340 PM PDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 17 MILES SOUTHEAST OF HICKISON SUMMIT...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... RURAL SOUTHWEST EUREKA COUNTY SOUTH OF U.S. HIGHWAY 50... RURAL SOUTHERN EUREKA COUNTY... RURAL SOUTHEASTERN LANDER COUNTY... && LAT...LON 3951 11642 3934 11611 3916 11650 3921 11660 TIME...MOT...LOC 2242Z 212DEG 18KT 3928 11649 $$ TURNER
682 WWUS55 KLKN 312254 SVSLKN SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV 354 PM PDT FRI AUG 31 2012 NVC011-015-312303- /O.CAN.KLKN.SV.W.0021.000000T0000Z-120831T2315Z/ EUREKA NV-LANDER NV- 354 PM PDT FRI AUG 31 2012 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR LANDER AND SOUTHWESTERN EUREKA COUNTIES IS CANCELLED... THE STRONG LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS HAS WEAKENED SIGNIFICANTLY SINCE THE FIRST WARNING WAS ISSUED AND HAS DROPPED TO BELOW SEVERE THRESHOLDS. HEAVY RAIN AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING REMAIN LIKELY...BUT DUE TO ITS WEAKENING...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED. && LAT...LON 3951 11642 3934 11611 3916 11650 3921 11660 TIME...MOT...LOC 2253Z 212DEG 18KT 3933 11645 $$ 86/BAT
The office that day
Everything else NWS Elko, NV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 30, 6:47 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | LKN | 43 min | |
| Aug 31, 12:19 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | LKN | 41 min | |
| Aug 31, 12:36 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | LKN | 39 min | |
| Aug 31, 12:50 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LKN | Nye | 55 min |
| Aug 31, 1:28 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | LKN | 32 min | |
| Aug 31, 1:35 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LKN | Lander, Nye | 27 min |
| Aug 31, 1:46 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | LKN | Lander | 44 min |
| Aug 31, 2:09 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LKN | Lander | 23 min |
| Aug 31, 2:15 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LKN | Nye | 45 min |
| Aug 31, 2:25 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | LKN | 35 min | |
| Aug 31, 2:48 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LKN | Nye | 27 min |
| Aug 31, 3:37 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | LKN | 23 min | |
| Aug 31, 3:49 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | LKN | 56 min | |
| Aug 31, 3:54 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LKN | Eureka, White Pine | 34 min |
| Aug 31, 3:59 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | LKN | 46 min | |
| Aug 31, 4:10 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LKN | Nye, White Pine | 35 min |
| Aug 31, 4:21 PM PDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LKN | Elko, Eureka | 111 min |
| Aug 31, 4:33 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | LKN | 57 min | |
| Aug 31, 4:36 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | LKN | Humboldt | 39 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.