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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Elko, NV

May 6, 2017Eureka County, Nye County, Nevada

NWS Elko, NV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 6, 2017, 4:32 PM PDT for Eureka County, Nye County, Nevada. It was in force for 28 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: May 6, 2017, 4:32 PM PDT (23:32 UTC)
Expired: May 6, 2017, 5:00 PM PDT
In force: 28 min
Issued by: NWS Elko, NV
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Eureka County, NV, Nye County, NV

The radar

The Elko radar (KLRX), 188 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:35 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

Reno, NV (KREV), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 176 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: 1878 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 58 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 81 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 164 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted.

764 
WUUS55 KLKN 062332
SVRLKN
NVC011-023-070000-
/O.NEW.KLKN.SV.W.0013.170506T2332Z-170507T0000Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service Elko NV
432 PM PDT SAT MAY 6 2017

The National Weather Service in Elko Nevada has issued a

* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
  Northern Nye County in south central Nevada...
  South central Eureka County in north central Nevada...

* Until 500 PM PDT

* At 431 PM PDT, a severe thunderstorm was located 27 miles west of
  Duckwater, moving north at 35 mph.

  HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and penny size hail. 

  SOURCE...Radar indicated. 

  IMPACT...Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees. 

* This severe thunderstorm will remain over mainly rural areas of
  northern Nye and south central Eureka Counties.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.

&&

LAT...LON 3895 11611 3891 11629 3931 11651 3939 11618
TIME...MOT...LOC 2331Z 163DEG 32KT 3901 11622 

HAIL...0.75IN
WIND...60MPH
 
$$

99

2 follow-up statements

016 
WWUS55 KLKN 062347
SVSLKN

Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Elko NV
447 PM PDT SAT MAY 6 2017

NVC011-023-070000-
/O.CON.KLKN.SV.W.0013.000000T0000Z-170507T0000Z/
Nye NV-Eureka NV-
447 PM PDT SAT MAY 6 2017

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 500 PM PDT
FOR NORTHERN NYE AND SOUTH CENTRAL EUREKA COUNTIES...

At 446 PM PDT, a severe thunderstorm was located 27 miles southwest
of Pinto Summit, moving north at 35 mph.

HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and penny size hail. 

SOURCE...Radar indicated. 

IMPACT...Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees. 

This severe thunderstorm will remain over mainly rural areas of
northern Nye and south central Eureka Counties.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.

&&

LAT...LON 3904 11618 3900 11634 3931 11651 3939 11618
TIME...MOT...LOC 2346Z 163DEG 32KT 3915 11627 

HAIL...0.75IN
WIND...60MPH
 
$$

99

050 
WWUS55 KLKN 062356
SVSLKN

Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Elko NV
456 PM PDT SAT MAY 6 2017

NVC011-023-070005-
/O.EXP.KLKN.SV.W.0013.000000T0000Z-170507T0000Z/
Nye NV-Eureka NV-
456 PM PDT SAT MAY 6 2017

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTHERN NYE AND SOUTH CENTRAL
EUREKA COUNTIES WILL EXPIRE AT 500 PM PDT...
                
The storm which prompted the warning has weakened below severe
limits, and no longer poses an immediate threat to life or property.
Therefore the warning will be allowed to expire.  However gusty winds
are still possible with this thunderstorm.

LAT...LON 3904 11618 3900 11634 3931 11651 3939 11618
TIME...MOT...LOC 2355Z 163DEG 32KT 3922 11630 

$$

99

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 5, 5:07 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN		53 min
May 5, 5:29 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN		61 min
May 5, 6:33 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN		42 min
May 5, 7:09 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN		66 min
May 5, 7:29 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN		46 min
May 5, 8:21 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN		39 min
May 6, 11:37 AM PDT	Areal Flood Warning	LKN	Elko	8 days
May 6, 3:38 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN		37 min
May 6, 3:44 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LKN	Elko	61 min
May 6, 4:05 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LKN	Eureka, Lander	55 min
May 6, 4:16 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN		44 min
May 6, 4:19 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN	Humboldt	56 min
May 6, 4:23 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN	Elko	52 min
May 6, 4:42 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LKN	Elko	63 min
May 6, 4:46 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN	Elko	59 min

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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.