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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 15, NWS Elko, NV

June 11, 2023White Pine County, Nevada

NWS Elko, NV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 11, 2023, 2:34 PM PDT for White Pine County, Nevada. It was in force for 26 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 11, 2023, 2:34 PM PDT (21:34 UTC)
Expired
Jun 11, 2023, 3:00 PM PDT
In force
26 min
Issued by
NWS Elko, NV
Area
Storm-based polygon
Damage threat
Considerable
Hail
1.0 in
Wind
70.0 mph

County White Pine County, NV

The radar

The Elko radar (KLRX), 217 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 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, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 283 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Reno, NV at 12:00Z on 2023-06-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Reno, NV at 12:00Z on 2023-06-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 33 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
837 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
33 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
19 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 10, 5:27 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementLKN33 min
Jun 11, 11:57 AM PDTSpecial Weather StatementLKNEureka33 min
Jun 11, 11:59 AM PDTSpecial Weather StatementLKN46 min
Jun 11, 12:17 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementLKN28 min
Jun 11, 12:20 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementLKN25 min
Jun 11, 12:36 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementLKN24 min
Jun 11, 12:57 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementLKN33 min
Jun 11, 1:09 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementLKN36 min
Jun 11, 1:22 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementLKN23 min
Jun 11, 1:24 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementLKNLander36 min
Jun 11, 1:35 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementLKN25 min
Jun 11, 1:47 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementLKN28 min
Jun 11, 1:55 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementLKN35 min
Jun 11, 2:20 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementLKN25 min
Jun 11, 2:44 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementLKNWhite Pine31 min
Jun 11, 2:47 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementLKN28 min
Jun 11, 3:17 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementLKN28 min
Jun 11, 3:23 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementLKNElko37 min
Jun 11, 3:44 PM PDTAreal Flood AdvisoryLKNElko3 hr
Jun 11, 3:57 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementLKNWhite Pine33 min
Jun 11, 4:19 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementLKN41 min
Jun 11, 4:41 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementLKN34 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.