Alert archive / Nevada / Tornado Warnings in 2012
Tornado Warning 1, NWS Elko, NV
NWS Elko, NV issued this tornado warning at Aug 21, 2012, 12:40 PM PDT for Eureka County, White Pine County, Nevada. It was in force for 35 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 21, 2012, 12:40 PM PDT (19:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 21, 2012, 1:15 PM PDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Elko, NV
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Eureka County, NV, White Pine County, NV
The radar
The Elko radar (KLRX), 165 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:40 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Reno, NV (KREV), launched 12:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 197 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
- 3870 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 6 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 75 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
156 WFUS55 KLKN 211940 TORLKN NVC011-033-212015- /O.NEW.KLKN.TO.W.0001.120821T1940Z-120821T2015Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV 1240 PM PDT TUE AUG 21 2012 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ELKO HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EXTREME WEST CENTRAL WHITE PINE COUNTY IN EASTERN NEVADA... SOUTHEASTERN EUREKA COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL NEVADA... THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF PINTO SUMMIT... * UNTIL 115 PM PDT * AT 1236 PM PDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR PINTO SUMMIT...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... PINTO SUMMIT... PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... WHEN A TORNADO WARNING IS ISSUED BASED ON DOPPLER RADAR...IT MEANS THAT STRONG ROTATION HAS BEEN DETECTED IN THE STORM. A TORNADO MAY ALREADY BE ON THE GROUND...OR IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP SHORTLY. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS DANGEROUS STORM...MOVE INDOORS AND TO THE LOWEST LEVEL OF THE BUILDING. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF DRIVING...DO NOT SEEK SHELTER UNDER A HIGHWAY OVERPASS. THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. && LAT...LON 3950 11581 3937 11574 3932 11604 3944 11613 TIME...MOT...LOC 1940Z 255DEG 16KT 3941 11597 $$ TURNER
2 follow-up statements
991 WWUS55 KLKN 211951 SVSLKN SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV 1251 PM PDT TUE AUG 21 2012 NVC011-033-212015- /O.CON.KLKN.TO.W.0001.000000T0000Z-120821T2015Z/ WHITE PINE NV-EUREKA NV- 1251 PM PDT TUE AUG 21 2012 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 115 PM PDT FOR SOUTHEASTERN EUREKA AND EXTREME WEST CENTRAL WHITE PINE COUNTIES... AT 1245 PM PDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR PINTO SUMMIT...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. RADAR CONTINUES TO INDICATE ROTATION AND FUNNEL CLOUDS ARE POSSIBLE NEAR PINTO SUMMIT AND U.S. HIGHWAY 50. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... PINTO SUMMIT... U.S. HIGHWAY 50... RURAL WESTERN WHITE PINE COUNTY... RURAL SOUTHEASTERN EUREKA COUNTY... PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. && LAT...LON 3944 11611 3950 11581 3937 11574 3932 11603 TIME...MOT...LOC 1950Z 255DEG 16KT 3942 11591 $$ TURNER
988 WWUS55 KLKN 212012 SVSLKN SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV 112 PM PDT TUE AUG 21 2012 NVC011-033-212020- /O.EXP.KLKN.TO.W.0001.000000T0000Z-120821T2015Z/ WHITE PINE NV-EUREKA NV- 112 PM PDT TUE AUG 21 2012 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR SOUTHEASTERN EUREKA AND EXTREME WEST CENTRAL WHITE PINE COUNTIES WILL EXPIRE AT 115 PM PDT... ROTATION IS MOVING EAST OUT OF THE WARNING AREA...INTO WESTERN WHITE PINE COUNTY. THE TORNADO WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE AT 115 PM PDT. && LAT...LON 3944 11611 3950 11581 3937 11574 3932 11603 TIME...MOT...LOC 2010Z 255DEG 16KT 3944 11580 $$ TURNER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Elko, NV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 21, 2:26 AM PDT | Flash Flood Watch | LKN | Elko, Nye, White Pine | 41 hr |
| Aug 21, 11:59 AM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LKN | Eureka, White Pine | 46 min |
| Aug 21, 1:06 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | LKN | Eureka, White Pine | 114 min |
| Aug 21, 1:07 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LKN | Eureka, White Pine | 23 min |
| Aug 21, 1:18 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LKN | Lander, Nye | 42 min |
| Aug 21, 1:32 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | LKN | White Pine | 43 min |
| Aug 21, 1:41 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | LKN | 49 min | |
| Aug 21, 2:26 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | LKN | White Pine | 34 min |
| Aug 21, 2:38 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | LKN | Lander, Nye | 3 hr |
| Aug 21, 3:34 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | LKN | 41 min | |
| Aug 21, 3:36 PM PDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LKN | Eureka, White Pine | 3 hr |
| Aug 21, 4:18 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | LKN | Lander, White Pine | 57 min |
| Aug 21, 4:38 PM PDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LKN | Eureka, Nye, White Pine | 3 hr |
| Aug 21, 4:53 PM PDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LKN | Eureka, Lander, Nye | 3 hr |
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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.