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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 18, NWS Elko, NV

July 5, 2013Elko County, Nevada

NWS Elko, NV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 5, 2013, 2:48 PM PDT for Elko County, Nevada. It was in force for 27 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 5, 2013, 2:48 PM PDT (21:48 UTC)
Expired: Jul 5, 2013, 3:15 PM PDT
In force: 27 min
Issued by: NWS Elko, NV
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Elko County, NV

The radar

The Elko radar (KLRX), 129 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:51 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Elko, NV (KLKN), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 102 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 28 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -266 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1524 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 81 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 87 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 5, 2:45 PM PDT, 3 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 5, 2:45 PM PDT, 3 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 5, 2:17 AM PDT, 12 hours 31 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV
217 AM PDT FRI JUL 5 2013

NVZ030-031-033>041-060930-
HUMBOLDT COUNTY-NORTHERN ELKO COUNTY-SOUTHEASTERN ELKO COUNTY-
RUBY MOUNTAINS/EAST HUMBOLDT RANGE-WHITE PINE COUNTY-
NORTHERN LANDER COUNTY AND NORTHERN EUREKA COUNTY-
SOUTHERN LANDER COUNTY AND SOUTHERN EUREKA COUNTY-
SOUTHWESTERN ELKO COUNTY-SOUTH CENTRAL ELKO COUNTY-
NORTHWESTERN NYE COUNTY-NORTHEASTERN NYE COUNTY-
217 AM PDT FRI JUL 5 2013

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF EAST CENTRAL
NEVADA...NORTH CENTRAL NEVADA...NORTHEAST NEVADA...NORTHWEST
NEVADA AND SOUTH CENTRAL NEVADA.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.

AN UPPER LEVEL LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM WILL PRODUCE SCATTERED
THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE AREA. SOME OF THE STORMS MAY BE STRONG WITH
GUSTY WINDS TO 60 MPH...DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND
LIGHTNING...SMALL HAIL AND BRIEF HEAVY RAIN.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY.

ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED ACROSS EASTERN NEVADA THROUGH
WEDNESDAY.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTERS ARE ASKED TO REPORT WEATHER PHENOMENA ACCORDING TO
STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURE.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 5, 1:41 PM PDT, 1 hour 7 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV
141 PM PDT FRI JUL 5 2013

NVZ034-038-039-052115-
RUBY MOUNTAINS AND EAST HUMBOLDT RANGE NV-SOUTH CENTRAL ELKO COUNTY
NV-SOUTHWEST ELKO COUNTY NV-
141 PM PDT FRI JUL 5 2013

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTHERN ELKO COUNTY UNTIL 215 PM
PDT...

AT 136 PM PDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF RUBY LAKE...MOVING NORTHEAST
AT 25 MPH.

HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF PENNIES AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH ARE
EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM...ALONG WITH HEAVY RAIN AND FREQUENT
DANGEROUS LIGHTNING.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
   RUBY LAKE WILDLIFE REFUGE...

&&

LAT...LON 4039 11533 4013 11514 4013 11550 4013 11570
TIME...MOT...LOC 2041Z 235DEG 23KT 4015 11554

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Local storm report, Jul 5, 2:02 PM PDT, 46 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 5, 2:07 PM PDT, 41 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 5, 2:14 PM PDT, 34 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 5, 2:19 PM PDT, 29 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 5, 2:36 PM PDT, 12 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Elko, NV issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 4, 5:08 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN		37 min
Jul 4, 5:10 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN		35 min
Jul 4, 5:26 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN		34 min
Jul 4, 5:36 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LKN	Elko, Humboldt, Lander	39 min
Jul 4, 5:46 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LKN	Humboldt	44 min
Jul 4, 6:17 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN		28 min
Jul 4, 6:33 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN		87 min
Jul 4, 6:39 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LKN	Elko, Humboldt, Lander	36 min
Jul 4, 6:53 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN		22 min
Jul 4, 7:15 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN		30 min
Jul 4, 7:22 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN		23 min
Jul 4, 7:26 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN		34 min
Jul 4, 7:34 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN	Humboldt	56 min
Jul 4, 9:04 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN	Humboldt	86 min
Jul 4, 10:03 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN		57 min
Jul 4, 10:04 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN		41 min
Jul 5, 11:42 AM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN		33 min
Jul 5, 12:19 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN		26 min
Jul 5, 12:41 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN	Elko	34 min
Jul 5, 12:45 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LKN	White Pine	45 min
Jul 5, 1:04 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LKN	Elko	26 min
Jul 5, 1:13 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN		32 min
Jul 5, 1:27 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LKN	Elko	33 min
Jul 5, 1:35 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN		25 min
Jul 5, 1:41 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN		34 min
Jul 5, 1:53 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LKN	Elko	37 min
Jul 5, 2:07 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN		23 min
Jul 5, 2:14 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN		31 min
Jul 5, 2:19 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN	Eureka	26 min
Jul 5, 2:25 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LKN	Elko	50 min
Jul 5, 2:36 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN	Elko	24 min
Jul 5, 3:24 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN		36 min
Jul 5, 3:40 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN		35 min
Jul 5, 3:52 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN	Elko	23 min
Jul 5, 4:20 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN	Elko	25 min
Jul 5, 4:39 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LKN	Elko	36 min

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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.