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Special Weather Statement, NWS Elko, NV

September 4, 2016

NWS Elko, NV issued this special weather statement at Sep 4, 2016, 10:13 AM PDT. It was in force for 32 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: Sep 4, 2016, 10:13 AM PDT (17:13 UTC)
Expired: Sep 4, 2016, 10:45 AM PDT
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS Elko, NV

The radar

The Elko radar (KLRX), 144 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:13 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Reno, NV (KREV), launched 12:00Z, 5.2 hours before the alert went out and 279 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: 2929 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 73 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 150 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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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 Sep 4, 6:07 AM PDT, 4 hours 6 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 4, 6:07 AM PDT, 4 hours 6 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Sep 4, 2:55 AM PDT, 7 hours 18 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV
255 AM PDT SUN SEP 4 2016

NVZ031-034-051000-
NORTHERN ELKO COUNTY-RUBY MOUNTAINS/EAST HUMBOLDT RANGE-
255 AM PDT SUN SEP 4 2016

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NEVADA AND
NORTHEAST NEVADA.

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT.

SHOWERS AND POSSIBLE THUNDERSTORMS WITH SNOW LEVELS DROPPING TO
10000 FEET BY DAY BREAK. SOME MINOR SNOW ACCUMLATION IS POSSIBLE
ABOVE 10500 FEET.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY.

SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE OR RE-DEVELOP ON SUNDAY
WITH FOCUS MOSTLY ON NORTHERN ELKO COUNTY. SNOW LEVELS COULD
BRIEFLY DROP TO 9500 FEET. A DUSTING TO A INCH OR TWO OF SNOW
ACCUMLATION IS POSSIBLE AT OR ABOVE THIS ELEVATION. THIS WILL ONLY
POSE A THREAT TO HIKER, CAMPERS, AND PICNICKERS IN THE MOUNTAINS.
SUB-FREEZING OVERNIGHT LOWS ARE ALSO EXPECTED ON MONDAY AND
TUESDAY MORNINGS.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

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

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Sep 4, 10:13 AM PDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV
1013 AM PDT SUN SEP 4 2016

NVZ030-041745-
HUMBOLDT COUNTY NV-
1013 AM PDT SUN SEP 4 2016

...SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...

AT 1012 AM PDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 22
MILES EAST OF MCDERMITT...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

BRIEF HEAVY RAIND AN HALF INCH HAIL WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.

THIS STORM WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF NORTHEASTERN
HUMBOLDT COUNTY.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM.
LIGHTNING CAN STRIKE 10 MILES AWAY FROM A THUNDERSTORM. SEEK A SAFE
SHELTER INSIDE A BUILDING OR VEHICLE.

THIS STORM MAY INTENSIFY...SO BE CERTAIN TO MONITOR LOCAL RADIO
STATIONS AND AVAILABLE TELEVISION STATIONS FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.

&&

LAT...LON 4200 11735 4200 11720 4197 11714 4191 11730
      4198 11740 4201 11738
TIME...MOT...LOC 1712Z 228DEG 13KT 4199 11728

LW

The office that day

Everything else NWS Elko, NV issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 4, 11:17 AM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN		28 min
Sep 4, 11:48 AM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN		42 min
Sep 4, 11:50 AM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN		40 min
Sep 4, 12:09 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN		51 min
Sep 4, 2:40 PM PDT	Frost Advisory	LKN	Elko, Eureka, Humboldt, Lander, Nye, White Pine	17 hr

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Nevada, 2016 Every special weather statement in 2016

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.