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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 48, NWS Elko, NV

September 5, 2013Elko County, Nevada

NWS Elko, NV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 5, 2013, 3:39 PM PDT for Elko County, Nevada. It was in force for 36 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: Sep 5, 2013, 3:39 PM PDT (22:39 UTC)
Expired: Sep 5, 2013, 4:15 PM PDT
In force: 36 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 22:42 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Sep 5, 12:35 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Boise Airport, ID (KBOI), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 278 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: 97 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -185 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1643 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 160 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 70 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 Sep 5, 1:26 PM PDT, 2 hours 13 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 5, 1:26 PM PDT, 2 hours 13 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Sep 5, 1:45 PM PDT, 1 hour 54 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Sep 5, 2:17 PM PDT, 1 hour 22 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Sep 5, 2:40 PM PDT, 59 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Sep 5, 2:41 PM PDT, 58 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Sep 5, 3:04 PM PDT, 35 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Sep 5, 3:19 PM PDT, 20 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
Sep 4, 5:14 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LKN	Elko	46 min
Sep 4, 5:21 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN	Elko	39 min
Sep 4, 5:35 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN	Elko	25 min
Sep 4, 5:38 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN		37 min
Sep 4, 5:55 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN	Lander	35 min
Sep 4, 6:35 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LKN	Eureka, Lander	40 min
Sep 4, 6:43 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN		47 min
Sep 4, 7:13 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN	Elko	47 min
Sep 4, 7:24 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN		51 min
Sep 4, 7:38 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN		37 min
Sep 4, 7:52 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN	Lander	38 min
Sep 4, 8:09 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN	Humboldt	51 min
Sep 4, 8:11 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN		49 min
Sep 4, 8:35 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN		25 min
Sep 4, 8:59 PM PDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LKN	Elko, Humboldt	3 hr
Sep 4, 10:20 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN	Lander	40 min
Sep 4, 10:24 PM PDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LKN	Elko, White Pine	3 hr
Sep 4, 10:41 PM PDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LKN	Elko	3 hr
Sep 4, 11:08 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN		52 min
Sep 4, 11:39 PM PDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LKN	Elko	3 hr
Sep 5, 4:04 AM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN		26 min
Sep 5, 12:21 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN		24 min
Sep 5, 12:36 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN		24 min
Sep 5, 12:55 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN		35 min
Sep 5, 1:03 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN	Humboldt	27 min
Sep 5, 1:16 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN		29 min
Sep 5, 1:36 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LKN	Elko	39 min
Sep 5, 1:45 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN	Elko	30 min
Sep 5, 2:13 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LKN	Elko	47 min
Sep 5, 2:17 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN		28 min
Sep 5, 2:40 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN		35 min
Sep 5, 2:41 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN		34 min
Sep 5, 3:04 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN	Elko	41 min
Sep 5, 3:11 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LKN	Elko	34 min
Sep 5, 3:19 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN		26 min
Sep 5, 3:52 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN		23 min
Sep 5, 4:19 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN		41 min

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.