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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Elko, NV

May 24, 2023Lander County, Nevada

NWS Elko, NV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 2023, 12:20 PM PDT for Lander County, Nevada. It was in force for 40 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: May 24, 2023, 12:20 PM PDT (19:20 UTC)
Expired: May 24, 2023, 1:00 PM PDT
In force: 40 min
Issued by: NWS Elko, NV
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Lander County, NV

The radar

The Elko radar (KLRX), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:23 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Elko, NV (KLKN), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 262 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: 1007 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 137 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 120 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 24, 3:39 AM PDT, 8 hours 41 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 24, 3:39 AM PDT, 8 hours 41 minutes before

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In the hours before

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Special weather statement, May 24, 12:01 PM PDT, 19 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 24, 6:52 AM PDT	River Flood Warning	LKN	Elko	44 hr
May 24, 8:55 AM PDT	Flood Watch	LKN	Elko, White Pine	12 hr
May 24, 11:10 AM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN		35 min
May 24, 11:14 AM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN		31 min
May 24, 11:38 AM PDT	River Flood Advisory	LKN	Elko	49 hr
May 24, 11:49 AM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN		26 min
May 24, 11:55 AM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN	Eureka	35 min
May 24, 12:01 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN		29 min
May 24, 12:02 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN		28 min
May 24, 12:15 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LKN	Eureka	30 min
May 24, 12:18 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN		27 min
May 24, 12:22 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN		23 min
May 24, 12:26 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN	Lander	34 min
May 24, 12:29 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN	Eureka	31 min
May 24, 12:32 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN	Eureka	28 min
May 24, 12:44 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN	Eureka	31 min
May 24, 12:48 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN	Eureka	27 min
May 24, 12:53 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LKN	Eureka	37 min
May 24, 12:54 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN	Lander	36 min
May 24, 12:55 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LKN	Elko	35 min
May 24, 12:57 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN		33 min
May 24, 1:03 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN		27 min
May 24, 1:08 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN	Eureka	37 min
May 24, 1:12 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN	Eureka	33 min
May 24, 1:13 PM PDT	Flash Flood Warning	LKN	Elko	3 hr
May 24, 1:13 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN		32 min
May 24, 1:16 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN		29 min
May 24, 1:22 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN		38 min
May 24, 1:22 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LKN	Elko	23 min
May 24, 1:24 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN		36 min
May 24, 1:24 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN		36 min
May 24, 1:30 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN		30 min
May 24, 1:31 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN		29 min
May 24, 1:32 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LKN	Eureka	28 min
May 24, 1:33 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN	Eureka	27 min
May 24, 1:37 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN	Lander	23 min
May 24, 1:40 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN	Eureka	35 min
May 24, 1:42 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN		33 min
May 24, 1:42 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LKN	Eureka	20 min
May 24, 1:43 PM PDT	Flash Flood Warning	LKN	Elko, Humboldt	3 hr
May 24, 1:44 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN		31 min
May 24, 1:49 PM PDT	Flash Flood Warning	LKN	Elko	3 hr
May 24, 1:49 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN		26 min
May 24, 1:51 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN		24 min
May 24, 1:51 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN		24 min
May 24, 1:51 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LKN	Elko	15 min
May 24, 2:01 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LKN	Elko, Eureka	29 min
May 24, 2:01 PM PDT	Tornado Warning	LKN	Elko	29 min
May 24, 2:04 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN		26 min
May 24, 2:06 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN		24 min
May 24, 2:08 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN	Eureka	37 min
May 24, 2:10 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN		35 min
May 24, 2:18 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN		27 min
May 24, 2:25 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LKN	Elko	35 min
May 24, 2:38 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN	Elko	37 min
May 24, 2:55 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN	Elko	35 min
May 24, 3:25 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN		35 min
May 24, 3:27 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN		33 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.