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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 32, NWS Elko, NV

August 22, 2026Elko County, Eureka County, Nevada

NWS Elko, NV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 22, 2026, 3:17 PM PDT for Elko County, Eureka 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 counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 22, 2026, 3:17 PM PDT (22:17 UTC)
Expired
Aug 22, 2026, 3:45 PM PDT
In force
28 min
Issued by
NWS Elko, NV
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.0 in
Wind
60.0 mph

Counties Elko County, NV, Eureka County, NV

The radar

The Elko radar (KLRX), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:19 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, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 331 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, Salt Lake City I, UT at 12:00Z on 2026-08-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 18 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Salt Lake City I, UT at 12:00Z on 2026-08-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 37 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
18 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-294 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1899 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
37 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
97 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 Aug 21, 3:26 PM PDT, 23 hours 51 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 21, 3:26 PM PDT, 23 hours 51 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 21, 5:52 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementLKN23 min
Aug 22, 12:43 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementLKN32 min
Aug 22, 1:36 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementLKN24 min
Aug 22, 1:58 PM PDTAreal Flood AdvisoryLKNElko109 min
Aug 22, 2:39 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementLKNEureka36 min
Aug 22, 2:46 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementLKNEureka29 min
Aug 22, 2:53 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLKNElko, Eureka26 min
Aug 22, 3:45 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLKNElko, Eureka45 min
Aug 22, 4:10 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementLKN35 min
Aug 22, 4:23 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementLKNElko37 min
Aug 22, 4:57 PM PDTAreal Flood AdvisoryLKNElko3 hr

Nearby

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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.