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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 28, NWS Elko, NV

August 13, 2026Elko County, Nevada

NWS Elko, NV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 13, 2026, 1:43 PM PDT for Elko County, Nevada. 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 counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Aug 13, 2026, 1:43 PM PDT (20:43 UTC)
Expired: Aug 13, 2026, 2:15 PM PDT
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS Elko, NV
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Elko County, NV

The radar

The Elko radar (KLRX), 129 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:44 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

Salt Lake City I, UT (KSLC), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 293 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: 32 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -92 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1463 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 28 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 105 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

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 Aug 13, 1:06 PM PDT, 37 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 13, 1:06 PM PDT, 37 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 13, 11:02 AM PDT, 2 hours 41 minutes before

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Elko NV
1102 AM PDT Thu Aug 13 2026

NVZ037-131830-
Southern Lander County and Southern Eureka County NV-
1102 AM PDT Thu Aug 13 2026

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL IMPACT SOUTHEASTERN LANDER COUNTY
THROUGH 1130 AM PDT...

At 1102 AM PDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 8
miles east of Austin, moving northeast at 15 mph.

HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 40 mph and half inch hail.

SOURCE...Radar indicated.

IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
         unsecured objects. Minor hail damage to vegetation is
         possible.

This storm will remain over mainly rural areas of southeastern Lander
County.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.

&&

LAT...LON 3938 11689 3941 11698 3962 11696 3954 11670
TIME...MOT...LOC 1802Z 204DEG 13KT 3947 11690

MAX HAIL SIZE...0.50 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH

94

Special weather statement, Aug 13, 11:27 AM PDT, 2 hours 16 minutes before

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Elko NV
1127 AM PDT Thu Aug 13 2026

NVZ035-037-131900-
Southern Lander County and Southern Eureka County NV-
White Pine County NV-
1127 AM PDT Thu Aug 13 2026

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL IMPACT WESTERN WHITE PINE AND
SOUTHEASTERN EUREKA COUNTIES THROUGH NOON PDT...

At 1126 AM PDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm
about 10 miles south of Pinto Summit, moving to the northeast at
around 15 mph.

HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 50 mph and half inch hail.

SOURCE...Radar indicated.

IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
         unsecured objects. Minor hail damage to vegetation is
         possible.

This storm will remain over mainly rural areas of western White Pine
and southeastern Eureka Counties.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.

&&

LAT...LON 3921 11598 3929 11608 3939 11592 3932 11577
TIME...MOT...LOC 1826Z 229DEG 12KT 3930 11597

MAX HAIL SIZE...0.50 IN
MAX WIND GUST...50 MPH

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 13, 11:02 AM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN	Lander	28 min
Aug 13, 11:27 AM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN		33 min
Aug 13, 11:38 AM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LKN	Nye	37 min
Aug 13, 11:58 AM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LKN	Elko, White Pine	32 min
Aug 13, 12:20 PM PDT	Flash Flood Warning	LKN	Lander	6 hr
Aug 13, 1:09 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LKN	Nye, White Pine	36 min
Aug 13, 2:12 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN	Eureka	33 min
Aug 13, 2:14 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LKN	Elko	16 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.