Name: Hail in Nevada, August 22, 2003
Start: 2003-08-22T14:00
End: 2003-08-22T14:02
Location: Nevada

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: None recorded
Crop damage: None recorded
Events: 1

Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before the first event, 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 the first event at Aug 22, 1:20 PM PST, 40 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 22, 1:20 PM PST, 40 minutes before

NORTHERN GREAT BASIN FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV
220 PM PDT FRI AUG 22 2003

.SYNOPSIS...LOW PRESSURE IN CENTRAL CALIFORNIA COMBINES WITH HIGH
PRESSURE IN THE FOUR CORNERS AREA TO GIVE US MOIST SOUTH FLOW OVER
NORTHERN NEVADA. THESE SOUTHERLY WINDS WILL CREATE SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING ACROSS MOST OF
NORTHERN NEVADA...SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE SEVERE THROUGH
EARLY THIS EVENING. DRY SOUTHWEST FLOW RETURNS TO NORTHEAST NEVADA
SATURDAY WITH WARMER ACTIVE WEATHER DAY TODAY THROUGH MID WEEK.

.SHORT TERM...CONVECTION REALLY BEGINNING TO KICK OFF. INTERACTION OF
JET AROUND LOW CREATING SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER MOST OF OUR
WESTERN AND SOUTHWESTERN ZONES. AREA DRIES OUT SIGNIFICANTLY
OVERNIGHT AND AREA RETURNS TO DRY AND WARMER CONDITIONS BY
SATURDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH MONDAY.

.EXTENDED..MODELS HINT AT ANOTHER POSSIBLE MONSOON PUSH ON
WEDNESDAY INTO THURSDAY. INTRODUCED SLIGHT CHANCE SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS FOR OUR SOUTHERN ZONES THEN.

.EKO...NVZ030>037 FLASH FLOOD WATCH TODAY.

CLAYCOMB

Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 22, 4:00 AM PST, 10 hours before

NVZ030>037-231400-

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV
500 AM PDT FRI AUG 22 2003

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST AND EAST CENTRAL
NEVADA

.DAY ONE...

MOISTURE COMBINED WITH STRONG WINDS IN THE UPPER LEVELS OF THE
ATMOSPHERE WILL CREATE FAVORABLE CONDITIONS FOR THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE
OF PRODUCING HEAVY RAINS...STRONG WINDS...AND LARGE HAIL. A FLASH
FLOOD WATCH CONTINUES FOR NORTHEAST NEVADA TODAY. REFER TO AWIPS ID
RNOFFALKN...OR WMO HEADER WGUS65 KLKN FOR DETAILS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...

MOISTURE WILL DEPART NORTHEAST NEVADA SATURDAY...WITH THE THREAT OF
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS DIMINISHING.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER
CONDITIONS ACCORDING TO STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES.

ALLEN

In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 22, 8:00 AM PST, 6 hours before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO, NV
900 AM PDT FRI AUG 22 2003

TIME(PDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

1207 PM    8 W ELKO                  NV   FLASH FLOODS
08/21/03   ELKO                           FLASH FLOODING AND
                                          MUDSLIDE CLOSED PORTIONS OF
                                          INTERSTATE 80 NEAR HUNTER
                                          EXIT, MILE MARKER 293.

0208 PM    CARLIN                    NV   FLASH FLOODS
08/21/03   EUREKA

PE

Special weather statement, Aug 22, 12:15 PM PST, 1 hour 45 minutes before

NVZ030>034-036-037-222315-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV
115 PM PDT FRI AUG 22 2003

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 882 IN EFFECT FOR NORTHERN
NEVADA UNTIL 7 PM PDT...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH
FOR NORTHERN NEVADA INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...

       HUMBOLDT...LANDER...EUREKA...ELKO AND NORTHWESTERN WHITE PINE.

THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN...HALF INCH TO ONE INCH HAIL...AND
WIND GUSTS NEAR 60 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING
ACROSS NORTHERN AND NORTH EAST NEVADA UNTIL 7 PM PDT.

REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE
FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. IF YOU SEE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
TAKE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY.

CALL YOUR LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY TO PASS ON REPORTS OF HEAVY
RAIN...HAIL...OR STRONG DAMAGING WINDS.

EYSSAUTIER

The radar

The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Humboldt

When: August 22, 2:00 PM PST to 2:02 PM PST
Where: Humboldt County, Golconda
Measured: 0.75 in hail
Reported by: TRAINED SPOTTER
Coordinates: 41.407, -118.112 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

What these are

Hail: Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.

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The same day elsewhere

More

Every storm in Nevada in 2003 Every state in 2003 This day in weather history Warnings in Nevada, August 2003

Sources

NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5379983.