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Special Weather Statement, NWS Elko, NV

July 3, 2013

NWS Elko, NV issued this special weather statement at Jul 3, 2013, 1:49 PM PDT. It was in force for 26 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 3, 2013, 1:49 PM PDT (20:49 UTC)
Expired: Jul 3, 2013, 2:15 PM PDT
In force: 26 min
Issued by: NWS Elko, NV

The radar

The Elko radar (KLRX), 216 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:49 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Reno, NV (KREV), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 219 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1980 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 10 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -33 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 37 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at Jul 3, 10:16 AM PDT, 3 hours 33 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 3, 10:16 AM PDT, 3 hours 33 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 3, 3:06 AM PDT, 10 hours 43 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV
306 AM PDT WED JUL 3 2013

NVZ030-033-035>041-041015-
HUMBOLDT COUNTY-SOUTHEASTERN ELKO COUNTY-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-
306 AM PDT WED JUL 3 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.

LOOK FOR CONTINUED VERY WARM CONDITIONS WITH THE EXCESSIVE HEAT
WARNING IN EFFECT FOR ONE MORE AFTERNOON. ISOLATED TO SCATTERED
THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP OVER NORTHERN NEVADA IN THE AFTERNOON.
SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE STRONG OUTFLOW WINDS TO 50
MPH...WHICH CAN PICK UP DUST AND LIMIT VISIBILITIES TO ONE MILE OR
LESS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH MONDAY.

AN UPPER LEVEL JET WILL COMBINE WITH MOISTURE AND INSTABILITY IN
PLACE TO BRING SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS TO THE AREA THURSDAY. SOME
OF THE STORMS MAY BE STRONG WITH GUSTY OUTFLOW WINDS AND SMALL
HAIL. BLOWING DUST MAY BE POSSIBLE WITH SOME OF THE OUTFLOW WINDS
WHICH COULD LIMIT VISIBILITIES TO ONE MILE OR LESS.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

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

NVZ031-034-041015-
NORTHERN ELKO COUNTY-RUBY MOUNTAINS/EAST HUMBOLDT RANGE-
306 AM PDT WED JUL 3 2013

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHEAST
NEVADA.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.

ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP OVER NORTHERN
NEVADA IN THE AFTERNOON. SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE
STRONG OUTFLOW WINDS TO 50 MPH...WHICH CAN PICK UP DUST AND LIMIT
VISIBILITIES TO ONE MILE OR LESS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH MONDAY.

AN UPPER LEVEL JET WILL COMBINE WITH MOISTURE AND INSTABILITY IN
PLACE TO BRING SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS TO THE AREA THURSDAY. SOME
OF THE STORMS MAY BE STRONG WITH GUSTY OUTFLOW WINDS AND SMALL
HAIL. BLOWING DUST MAY BE POSSIBLE WITH SOME OF THE OUTFLOW WINDS
WHICH COULD LIMIT VISIBILITIES TO ONE MILE OR LESS.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

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

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 3, 12:49 PM PDT, 1 hour before

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Special weather statement, Jul 3, 1:49 PM PDT, 0 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 2, 5:39 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN		96 min
Jul 2, 8:00 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN	Humboldt	30 min
Jul 2, 8:25 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN	Humboldt	95 min
Jul 2, 10:47 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN	Humboldt	58 min
Jul 2, 11:25 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN	Elko	35 min
Jul 3, 9:34 AM PDT	Red Flag Warning	LKN	Elko	55 hr
Jul 3, 12:49 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN		26 min
Jul 3, 2:11 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN		49 min
Jul 3, 2:48 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN	Eureka	27 min
Jul 3, 3:31 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN		29 min
Jul 3, 3:39 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN	White Pine	36 min
Jul 3, 3:49 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN		26 min
Jul 3, 4:18 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN		27 min
Jul 3, 4:22 PM PDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LKN	Eureka, White Pine	3 hr
Jul 3, 4:47 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN		28 min
Jul 3, 4:54 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN		36 min

Nearby

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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.