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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Elko, NV

July 22, 2013Nye County, Nevada

NWS Elko, NV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 22, 2013, 5:08 PM PDT for Nye County, Nevada. It was in force for 37 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: Jul 22, 2013, 5:08 PM PDT (00:08 UTC)
Expired: Jul 22, 2013, 5:45 PM PDT
In force: 37 min
Issued by: NWS Elko, NV
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Nye County, NV

The radar

The Cedar City radar (KICX), 206 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:11 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Las Vegas, NV (KVEF), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 210 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: 48 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -85 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2610 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 24 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 36 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

484 
WUUS55 KLKN 230008
SVRLKN
NVC023-230045-
/O.NEW.KLKN.SV.W.0021.130723T0008Z-130723T0045Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV
508 PM PDT MON JUL 22 2013

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ELKO HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  EXTREME EAST CENTRAL NYE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEVADA...

* UNTIL 545 PM PDT

* AT 505 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 EAST CENTRAL NYE COUNTY...OR 15 MILES SOUTH OF 
SUNNYSIDE...AND ALONG STATE ROUTE 318. THE STORM IS MOVING NORTH AT 
15 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  RURAL EASTERN NYE COUNTY...

&&

LAT...LON 3816 11509 3832 11525 3834 11499 3819 11499
      3819 11500
TIME...MOT...LOC 0008Z 177DEG 13KT 3824 11505

$$

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1 follow-up statement

134 
WWUS55 KLKN 230033
SVSLKN

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV
533 PM PDT MON JUL 22 2013

NVC023-230041-
/O.CAN.KLKN.SV.W.0021.000000T0000Z-130723T0045Z/
NYE NV-
533 PM PDT MON JUL 22 2013

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR EXTREME EAST CENTRAL NYE
COUNTY IS CANCELLED...

THE STORM THAT PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS DROPPED TO BELOW SEVERE 
LEVELS. THE STORM IS STILL PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN AND STRONG 
WINDS...BUT IS NO LONGER SEVERE...THEREFORE THE WARNING HAS BEEN 
CANCELLED.

&&

LAT...LON 3816 11509 3832 11525 3834 11499 3819 11499
      3819 11500
TIME...MOT...LOC 0031Z 177DEG 13KT 3832 11506

$$

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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 22, 5:02 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN		28 min
Jul 22, 5:15 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN		30 min
Jul 22, 5:23 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LKN	Nye	37 min
Jul 22, 6:24 PM PDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LKN	Nye	3 hr
Jul 22, 10:21 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN		39 min
Jul 23, 3:49 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN	Eureka	41 min
Jul 23, 4:00 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN		30 min
Jul 23, 4:18 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN		27 min
Jul 23, 4:20 PM PDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LKN	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.