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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 34, NWS Elko, NV

August 23, 2026Elko County, Nevada

NWS Elko, NV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 23, 2026, 2:04 PM PDT for Elko 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
Aug 23, 2026, 2:04 PM PDT (21:04 UTC)
Expired
Aug 23, 2026, 2:30 PM PDT
In force
26 min
Issued by
NWS Elko, NV
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.5 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 21:05 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, 9.1 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Salt Lake City I, UT at 12:00Z on 2026-08-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 275 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 2026-08-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 36 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
275 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-256 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1941 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
36 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
99 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 23, 1:50 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementLKNElko25 min
Aug 23, 3:28 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementLKN32 min
Aug 23, 3:46 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementLKN29 min
Aug 23, 4:32 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementLKNEureka28 min
Aug 23, 4:57 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementLKNEureka33 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.