1 flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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 Apr 30, 12:38 PM PST, 11 hours 22 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV 138 PM PDT SAT APR 30 2005 .SYNOPSIS...ANOTHER STORM SYSTEM WILL MOVE THROUGH NORTHERN NEVADA TODAY AND SUNDAY FOR MORE WET WEATHER AND AFTERNOON THUNDERSTORMS. UNSETTLED WEATHER WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE WEEK WITH INTERMITTENT PERIODS OF SHOWERS AND AFTERNOON THUNDERSTORMS. && .SHORT TERM...SHORT TERM MODELS AGREE FAIRLY WELL ON SHORT WAVE APPROACHING FROM THE WEST TONIGHT AND MOVING ACROSS THE FORECAST AREA SUNDAY INTO SUNDAY EVENING...WITH A SERIES OF VORT MAXES... MAINLY SOUTH. CONVECTION SHOULD BE FOCUSED ACROSS OUR CENTRAL ZONES SUNDAY AS GFS SHOWING NEG LIS ON A NW TO SE AXIS FROM HUMBOLDT COUNTY THROUGH WHITE PINE COUNTY TOMORROW. BUMPED UP POPS TO LIKELY ACROSS CENTRAL ZONES AS CONVECTION SHOULD GET GOING PRETTY GOOD THROUGH THERE TOMORROW AFTERNOON. AFTERNOON CONVECTION CONTINUES THROUGH THE SHORT TERM AS MID LEVEL CONVERGENCE COMBINES WITH EVAPORATING SURFACE MOISTURE AS THESE VORTS MOVE THROUGH. BUMPED UP POPS IN NE ELKO COUNTY TUESDAY AFTERNOON AS A 60+KT JET DIVES IN FROM THE NORTH AND PROVIDES GOOD COUPLETING OVER THAT AREA. GFS SHOWING NEG 2 TO 3 LIS OVER THE JARBIDGE AREA TUESDAY AFTERNOON...SO WENT HIGH END CHANCE WITH AFTERNOON THUNDER. THE RIVER GAGE FOR THE HUMBOLDT RIVER AT BATTLE MOUNTAIN STILL INDICATING RIVER ABOVE FLOOD STAGE...SO WILL CONTINUE FLOOD WARNING FOR THIS AREA AND FLOOD WATCH FOR AREA SURROUNDING THIS WARNING AREA. CANT RULE OUT POSSIBILITY OF LOCALLY HEAVY RAINSHOWERS THIS AFTERNOON AND SUNDAY CONTRIBUTING TO FURTHER RISE IN THE RIVER TODAY AND SUNDAY. .LONG TERM...ACTIVE WEEK IN STORE FOR NORTHERN AND CENTRAL NV. MODELS SHOWING NEXT UPPER LEVEL SYSTEM OFF OF THE PAC NW COAST MID-WEEK MOVING ONSHORE BY THE END OF THE WEEK. SOME DIFFERENCES IN MODEL TIMING WITH MOST NOTABLE BEING CHANGE IN THE GFS BETWEEN 00Z AND 12Z. LATEST GFS RUN MUCH SLOWER THAN 00Z AS LATEST RUN AS CUT-OFF LOW BARELY REACHING THE COAST BY FRIDAY AFTERNOON WHILE 00Z RUN HAS A UPPER TROUGH ALREADY PUSHING INTO WRN UT. WITH OTHER MODELS SOMEWHERE IN-BETWEEN THESE TWO SOLUTIONS WILL KEEP FORECAST RELATIVELY SIMPLE FOR NOW. WILL GO WITH CHC POPS FROM THE MIDDLE OF THE WEEK ON WITH AFTERNOON THUNDERSTORMS GIVEN INSTABILITY AND POTENTIAL FOR LLVL BAROCLINIC ZONE OVER THE REGION. BEST BET WILL HAVE MAJORITY OF THE ACTIVITY ALONG HIGHWAY 50 AND THE JARBIDGE MTNS AND HAVE SHOWN A SLIGHT EMPHASIS FOR THESE AREAS. CONSIDERING RECENT PATTERN...EXPECT TREND OF INCREASED POPS AND LOWERING DAYTIME TEMPS TO CONTINUE WITH DAYTIME TEMPS FALLING TO SLIGHTLY BELOW NORMAL VALUES. THOUGH WILL SEE HOW THINGS EVOLVE OVER NEXT FEW DAYS AS MODELS HAVE SHOWN RECENTLY THAT THEY CAN...AND DO...STRUGGLE WITH SOME OF THESE SYSTEMS. WITH VALLEY RAIN AND MTN SNOW CONTINUING INTO THE WEEKEND WILL NEED TO KEEP VIGILANT WATCH ON RIVERS AND STREAMS AS THEY WILL CONTINUE TO FLOW FULL AND FAST WITH ADDITIONAL PRECIP COMBINING WITH RUNOFF. WITH THIS PATTERN APPEARING TO BE IN PLACE HEADING INTO THE FOLLOWING WEEK IT WILL BE A LITTLE WHILE BEFORE WE CAN TRULY START DRYING OUT. FEHRN && .LKN WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NVZ036...FLOOD WARNING IN EFFECT THROUGH MONDAY FOR STRETCH OF HUMBOLDT RIVER BETWEEN BEOWAWE AND BATTLE MOUNTAIN. NVZ030-032-034...FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT THROUGH MONDAY. &&
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
The Humboldt River continued above flood stage from Palisade to Battle Mountain. Lowland flooding occurred near the river making some rural roads impassable.
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