Alert archive / Nevada / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2013

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 22, NWS Elko, NV

July 22, 2013Nye County, Nevada

NWS Elko, NV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 22, 2013, 5:23 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 counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 22, 2013, 5:23 PM PDT (00:23 UTC)
Expired: Jul 22, 2013, 6:00 PM PDT
In force: 37 min
Issued by: NWS Elko, NV
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Nye County, NV

The nearest sounding before it

Las Vegas, NV (KVEF), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 203 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

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.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 22, 5:02 PM PDT, 21 minutes before

<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
  <title>Service Notice</title>
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="index.css">
</head>
<body>
  <main class="wrap">
    <section class="card" role="status" aria-live="polite">
      <div class="status" id="status">Temporary Notice</div>
      <h1 id="headline">This service is currently unavailable.</h1>
      <p id="message1">
        The site you requested is temporarily down for maintenance or an unexpected outage.
      </p>
      <p id="message2">
        Please try again in a few minutes.
      </p>
      <p class="small" id="detail">
        If you are an administrator, restore upstream service and remove the redirect/fallback rule when normal operations resume.
      </p>
    </section>
  </main>
  <script src="index.js"></script>
</body>
</html>

Special weather statement, Jul 22, 5:15 PM PDT, 8 minutes before

<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
  <title>Service Notice</title>
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="index.css">
</head>
<body>
  <main class="wrap">
    <section class="card" role="status" aria-live="polite">
      <div class="status" id="status">Temporary Notice</div>
      <h1 id="headline">This service is currently unavailable.</h1>
      <p id="message1">
        The site you requested is temporarily down for maintenance or an unexpected outage.
      </p>
      <p id="message2">
        Please try again in a few minutes.
      </p>
      <p class="small" id="detail">
        If you are an administrator, restore upstream service and remove the redirect/fallback rule when normal operations resume.
      </p>
    </section>
  </main>
  <script src="index.js"></script>
</body>
</html>

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, 5:08 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LKN	Nye	37 min
Jul 22, 5:15 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN		30 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

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Nevada, 2013 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2013

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.