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Special Weather Statement, NWS Elko, NV

May 15, 2021Elko County, Nevada

NWS Elko, NV issued this special weather statement at May 15, 2021, 4:07 PM PDT for Elko County, Nevada. It was in force for 38 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 15, 2021, 4:07 PM PDT (23:07 UTC)
Expired: May 15, 2021, 4:45 PM PDT
In force: 38 min
Issued by: NWS Elko, NV

County Elko County, NV

The radar

The Elko radar (KLRX), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:07 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Elko, NV (KLKN), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 140 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.

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Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

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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: 2012 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 103 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 158 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 May 15, 3:37 PM PDT, 30 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 15, 3:37 PM PDT, 30 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 15, 2:26 PM PDT, 1 hour 41 minutes before

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Elko NV
226 PM PDT Sat May 15 2021

NVZ039-152215-
South Central Elko County NV-
226 PM PDT Sat May 15 2021

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTH CENTRAL ELKO COUNTY UNTIL
315 PM PDT...

At 225 PM PDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 15
miles west of Currie, moving north at 25 mph.

Wind gusts 40 to 50 mph and pea sized hail will be possible with
this storm.

This storm will remain over mainly rural areas of south central Elko
County.

LAT...LON 4019 11497 4030 11531 4065 11524 4052 11476
TIME...MOT...LOC 2125Z 199DEG 20KT 4032 11503

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Special weather statement, May 15, 2:29 PM PDT, 1 hour 38 minutes before

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Elko NV
229 PM PDT Sat May 15 2021

NVZ034-035-037-152215-
Southern Lander County and Southern Eureka County NV-
White Pine County NV-Ruby Mountains and East Humboldt Range NV-
229 PM PDT Sat May 15 2021

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHWESTERN WHITE PINE...
SOUTHWESTERN ELKO AND EAST CENTRAL EUREKA COUNTIES UNTIL 315 PM
PDT...

At 229 PM PDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 13
miles northeast of Diamond Valley, moving north at 20 mph.

Wind gusts 40 to 50 mph and pea sized hail will be possible with
this storm.

Locations impacted include...
Big Bald Mountain, Overland Pass and Newark Valley.

LAT...LON 3997 11532 3966 11576 3983 11607 4013 11598
      4013 11583
TIME...MOT...LOC 2129Z 198DEG 19KT 3986 11590

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Special weather statement, May 15, 3:10 PM PDT, 57 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 15, 3:31 PM PDT, 36 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 15, 3:54 PM PDT, 13 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 15, 4:07 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
May 15, 12:11 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN		49 min
May 15, 1:19 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN		41 min
May 15, 1:34 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LKN	Eureka, White Pine	26 min
May 15, 1:58 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LKN	Eureka, White Pine	32 min
May 15, 2:26 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN		49 min
May 15, 2:29 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN	Eureka	46 min
May 15, 3:10 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN		50 min
May 15, 3:24 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LKN	Elko, White Pine	36 min
May 15, 3:31 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN		44 min
May 15, 3:54 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN		51 min
May 15, 3:55 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LKN	Elko	35 min
May 15, 4:08 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN		52 min
May 15, 4:10 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN	Elko	50 min
May 15, 4:27 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN		48 min
May 15, 4:40 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN		50 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.