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Special Weather Statement, NWS Elko, NV

August 3, 2015Eureka County, Nevada

NWS Elko, NV issued this special weather statement at Aug 3, 2015, 2:36 PM PDT for Eureka County, Nevada. It was in force for 39 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 3, 2015, 2:36 PM PDT (21:36 UTC)
Expired: Aug 3, 2015, 3:15 PM PDT
In force: 39 min
Issued by: NWS Elko, NV

County Eureka County, NV

The radar

The Elko radar (KLRX), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:38 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Elko, NV (KLKN), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 223 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: 2161 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 23 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -6 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 Aug 3, 2:15 PM PDT, 21 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 3, 2:15 PM PDT, 21 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 3, 12:46 PM PDT, 1 hour 50 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV
1246 PM PDT MON AUG 3 2015

NVZ035-032030-
WHITE PINE COUNTY NV-
1246 PM PDT MON AUG 3 2015

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR EAST CENTRAL WHITE PINE COUNTY
UNTIL 130 PM PDT...

AT 1244 PM PDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 15
MILES EAST OF MCGILL...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.

DIME SIZE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS 40 TO 50 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS
STORM.

THIS STORM WILL AFFECT PORTIONS OF HIGHWAY 93 JUST NORTH OF MCGILL
AND STATE ROUTE 93 NORTH OF US HIGHWAY 50/6.

LAT...LON 3926 11462 3954 11486 3992 11422 3972 11404
      3944 11404
TIME...MOT...LOC 1944Z 237DEG 39KT 3942 11449

RLC

Special weather statement, Aug 3, 2:01 PM PDT, 35 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV
201 PM PDT MON AUG 3 2015

NVZ035-032145-
WHITE PINE COUNTY NV-
201 PM PDT MON AUG 3 2015

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTHEASTERN WHITE PINE COUNTY
UNTIL 245 PM PDT...

AT 201 PM PDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 18
MILES NORTH OF BAKER...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

DIME SIZE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS OF 45 TO 55 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH
THIS STORM.

THIS STORM WILL REMAIN NORTH OF US HIGHWAY 50/6 AND NORTH OF BAKER.

LAT...LON 3917 11418 3918 11420 3935 11420 3936 11414
      3936 11405 3918 11405
TIME...MOT...LOC 2101Z 269DEG 28KT 3928 11413

RLC

Special weather statement, Aug 3, 2:11 PM PDT, 25 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 3, 2:29 PM PDT, 7 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 3, 2:33 PM PDT, 3 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 3, 2:36 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
Aug 3, 12:46 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN	White Pine	44 min
Aug 3, 12:58 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LKN	White Pine	29 min
Aug 3, 2:01 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN		44 min
Aug 3, 2:11 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN		49 min
Aug 3, 2:29 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN	Eureka	46 min
Aug 3, 2:33 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN		27 min
Aug 3, 3:03 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN	White Pine	42 min
Aug 3, 3:46 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN		44 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Nevada, 2015 Every special weather statement in 2015

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.