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Special Weather Statement, NWS Elko, NV
NWS Elko, NV issued this special weather statement at Aug 4, 2014, 1:15 PM PDT for Eureka County, Nevada. It was in force for 30 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
- Aug 4, 2014, 1:15 PM PDT (20:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 4, 2014, 1:45 PM PDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Elko, NV
County Eureka County, NV
The radar
The Elko radar (KLRX), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:17 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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
Elko, NV (KLKN), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 161 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1618 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 49 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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</html>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 Aug 4, 3:48 AM PDT, 9 hours 27 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 4, 3:48 AM PDT, 9 hours 27 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV 348 AM PDT MON AUG 4 2014 .SYNOPSIS...ABUNDANT MONSOON MOISTURE MOVING INTO CENTRAL AND NORTHERN NEVADA TODAY WILL RESULT IN SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HEAVY RAINS. AFTERNOON AND EVENING THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TUESDAY THROUGH NEXT WEEKEND...WITH ASSOCIATED RAIN AMOUNTS TRENDING LOWER AS THE WEEK PROGRESSES. && .SHORT TERM...TODAY THROUGH TUESDAY. UPPER LEVEL LOW MOVING IN OVER NEVADA THIS MORNING WITH ISOLATED LIGHTNING NEAR THE CORE OF THE LOW...WHICH IS CURRENTLY OVER SOUTHERN NEVADA. AS THE CORE MOVES NORTH LATER THIS MORNING EXPECT SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS TO SPREAD UP INTO CENTRAL NEVADA...WITH ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHERN AREAS. WITH PRECIPITABLE WATER VALUES NEAR AN INCH TODAY ACROSS THE CWA...THUNDERSTORMS THAT DEVELOP WILL BE CAPABLE OF MODERATE TO HEAVY RAINS. ADDITIONALLY...STORM MOTION WILL BE RELATIVELY SLOW WITH FLASH FLOODING A LINGERING CONCERN. INSTABILITY DIMINISHES LATER THIS EVENING AND OVERNIGHT...HOWEVER MAY STILL SEE SOME ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE REGION. FOCUS OF THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY SHIFTS TO NORTHERN NEVADA TUESDAY AS MOISTURE REMAINS HIGH AND INSTABILITY INCREASES...WHILE CONDITIONS ACROSS CENTRAL NEVADA TEND DRIER AND MORE STABLE. .LONG TERM...TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY. MODEL SOLUTIONS ARE HAVING A CHALLENGING TIME WITH THE DETAILS IN THE MEDIUM AND LONG TERM. AN ELONGATED TROUGH WILL BE ACROSS NORTHERN CALIFORNIA...STRETCHING NORTHEAST THROUGH NORTHERN NEVADA. THIS FEATURE WILL MAKE AN ATTEMPT TO MOVE THROUGH THE FORECAST AREA WEDNESDAY. SUFFICIENT MOISTURE EXISTS AT THE LOW-MID LEVELS TO PROMOTE ISOLATED TO SCATTERED SHOWER AND THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY DURING THE WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON PERIOD. WINDS AT THE SURFACE WILL REMAIN LIGHT AND HIGHS FOR THE AFTERNOON WILL BE AT OR A LITTLE BIT BELOW NORMAL. BY WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY...ENERGY FROM THE BAGGY TROUGH REMAINS OVER NORTHERN NEVADA AND WILL SLOWLY MOVE EAST THROUGH THE AFTERNOON. MODELS DO NOT SHOW ANY SIGNIFICANT DRYING IN THE LOW TO MID- LEVELS...AND SO HAVE CONTINUED THE THREAT FOR AFTERNOON ISOLATED TO SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. WITH THE MOISTURE HANGING TOUGH...KEPT OVERNIGHT TEMPERATURES THROUGH THURSDAY MORNING FROM FALLING TOO LOW AND THEY WILL BE ABOVE NORMAL. THE HIGHS ARE EXPECTED TO BE AT OR JUST BELOW NORMAL AGAIN. DIFFERENCES IN THE MODELS INCREASE FRIDAY THROUGH SUNDAY WITH VARIOUS SOLUTIONS DISPLAYING PLACEMENT AND TIMING ISSUES...AS MODELS MAY BE DRYING THE ATMOSPHERE A LITTLE TOO QUICKLY. HAVE GENERALLY BROAD-BRUSHED POPS...ISOLATED IN COVERAGE...OVER MAINLY THE NORTHERN HALF. TEMPERATURES IN THE AFTERNOON WILL CLIMB BACK TOWARDS ABOVE NORMAL READINGS. && .AVIATION...A MOIST AIR MASS WILL BRING SCT-NMRS SHRA/TSRA TO ALL TAF SITES. SOME OF THE STRONGER STORMS MAY BRING STRONG WIND GUSTS/HEAVY RAIN...WITH WIND GUSTS TO 35KT AND LCL CIGS/VSBY REDUCTION TO IFR. && .FIRE WEATHER...CLOUDY WITH ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE REGION TODAY AND TUESDAY WITH MOST STORMS PRODUCING MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN SHOWERS DUE TO THE COMBINATION OF A VERY MOIST AIR MASS AND RELATIVELY SLOW STORM MOTION. DRIER AIR MOVES UP INTO CENTRAL NEVADA TUESDAY NIGHT TO BEGIN A DRYING TREND. && .LKN WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... FLASH FLOOD WATCH FROM NOON PDT TODAY THROUGH THIS EVENING FOR HUMBOLDT COUNTY...NORTHEASTERN NYE COUNTY...NORTHERN ELKO COUNTY...NORTHERN LANDER COUNTY AND NORTHERN EUREKA COUNTY... NORTHWESTERN NYE COUNTY...RUBY MOUNTAINS/EAST HUMBOLDT RANGE... SOUTH CENTRAL ELKO COUNTY...SOUTHEASTERN ELKO COUNTY...SOUTHERN LANDER COUNTY AND SOUTHERN EUREKA COUNTY...SOUTHWESTERN ELKO COUNTY...WHITE PINE COUNTY. FLASH FLOOD WATCH FROM TUESDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH TUESDAY EVENING FOR HUMBOLDT COUNTY...NORTHERN ELKO COUNTY...NORTHERN LANDER COUNTY AND NORTHERN EUREKA COUNTY...RUBY MOUNTAINS/EAST HUMBOLDT RANGE...SOUTH CENTRAL ELKO COUNTY...SOUTHEASTERN ELKO COUNTY... SOUTHWESTERN ELKO COUNTY. && 96/86/86/96
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 4, 1:15 PM PDT, 0 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV 115 PM PDT MON AUG 4 2014 NVZ036-038-042045- NORTHERN LANDER COUNTY AND NORTHERN EUREKA COUNTY NV-SOUTHWEST ELKO COUNTY NV- 115 PM PDT MON AUG 4 2014 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR EASTERN EUREKA AND SOUTHERN ELKO COUNTIES UNTIL 145 PM PDT... AT 113 PM PDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF JIGGS...MOVING NORTHWEST AT 5 MPH. HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF PENNIES AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM...ALONG WITH HEAVY RAIN. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA...TAKE SHELTER IN A STURDY BUILDING. && LAT...LON 4030 11612 4046 11591 4027 11571 4015 11588 TIME...MOT...LOC 2015Z 136DEG 4KT 4027 11587 RCM
The office that day
Everything else NWS Elko, NV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 4, 1:19 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | LKN | Eureka | 26 min |
| Aug 4, 1:20 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | LKN | Elko | 25 min |
| Aug 4, 2:47 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | LKN | Elko | 28 min |
| Aug 4, 3:42 PM PDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LKN | Eureka | 3 hr |
| Aug 4, 3:45 PM PDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LKN | Elko, White Pine | 3 hr |
| Aug 4, 3:47 PM PDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LKN | Elko | 3 hr |
| Aug 4, 3:52 PM PDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LKN | Nye, White Pine | 3 hr |
| Aug 4, 3:54 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | LKN | 36 min | |
| Aug 4, 4:05 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | LKN | 55 min | |
| Aug 4, 4:33 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | LKN | 27 min | |
| Aug 4, 4:53 PM PDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LKN | Elko | 3 hr |
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.