Name: Hail in Nevada, July 6, 2006
Start: 2006-07-06T13:30
End: 2006-07-06T13:30
Location: Nevada

Where it happened

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Heat and drought
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Fire, smoke and dust
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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 Jul 6, 11:17 AM PST, 2 hours 13 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 6, 11:17 AM PST, 2 hours 13 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV
1217 PM PDT THU JUL 6 2006

.SYNOPSIS...SHOWER AND THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY WILL INCREASE ONCE
AGAIN THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS NORTHEASTERN AND CENTRAL NEVADA. A DRIER
WESTERLY FLOW WILL BEGIN TO MOVE INTO EASTERN NEVADA FRIDAY FOR A
DECREASING RISK OF THUNDERSTORMS. SHOWER AND THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY
WILL BEGIN TO INCREASE AGAIN OVER THE WEEKEND ACROSS EASTERN NEVADA.
&&

SHORT TERM...RIGHT REAR QUADRANT OF A 60KT H3 JET PASSING OVER
SOUTHEASTERN PORTION OF CWA HAS BROUGHT SCATTERED SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS TO WHITE PINE COUNTY THIS MORNING...WHICH SHOULD
CONTINUE INTO THE AFTERNOON BEFORE THE JET MOVES OFF TO THE NE.
ANOTHER 60-65KT H3 JET IS ALSO MOVING IN FROM THE WEST ACROSS
NORTHERN NEVADA...WHICH WILL BRING ADDED INSTABILITY TO MUCH OF THE
NORTHEAST CORNER OF NEVADA THIS AFTERNOON...GENERALLY THE SAME AREAS
THAT HAD SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS YESTERDAY ...HOWEVER EXPECTING
AREAS EAST OF THE RUBIES TO STAY ACTIVE LATER INTO TONIGHT THAN LAST
NIGHT. GOOD WIND SHEAR AND INSTABILITY THIS AFTERNOON...COUPLED WITH
A MOIST AIRMASS OVER ELKO COUNTY COULD MAKE FOR AN INTERESTING
AFTERNOON THUNDERSTORM-WISE. DRY AIR CONTINUES TO SLOWLY ADVANCE
EAST ACROSS NEVADA...WHICH WILL LESSEN THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY ON
FRIDAY. AN AREA OF INSTABILITY INCREASES ACROSS MAINLY WHITE PINE
COUNTY ON SATURDAY WITH THETA-E RIDGING AND MOISTURE INCREASING FOR
SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS SE CORNER OF CWA...WITH
ISOLATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER MOST OF THE REST OF
CWA...THE EXCEPTION BEING HUMBOLDT COUNTY WHERE THE DRIER MORE
STABLE AIR SHOULD REMAIN STORM FREE. ROOD

.LONG TERM...SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT...PREVIOUS
FORECAST IN GREAT SHAPE.  ONLY CHANGES MADE TO LONG TERM FORECAST
WERE THE FIRST FEW PERIODS. INTRODUCED SLIGHT CHANCE WORDING FOR
SUNDAY WEST TO THE REV BORDER GIVEN MID LEVEL MOISTURE TRENDING
SLIGHTLY WEST BY THE GFS MODEL.  LOWERED POPS FOR THE SUNDAY NIGHT
PERIOD SLIGHTLY TO TAKE OUT WORDING.  NOT CONVINCED ABOUT GFS
PLACEMENT OF STRONG SHORTWAVE MOVING OVER THE AREA AT THAT TIME.
WILL KEEP AN EYE ON LATER MODEL RUNS.  OTHERWISE GOING FORECAST IN
VERY GOOD SHAPE AS RUN CONSISTENCY REMAINS IN DECENT AGREEMENT. RA

&&

.AVIATION...EXPECT SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VISIBILITIES DOWN TO
1-2SM...+TSRA AND SURFACE WIND GUSTS TO 35KT BETWEEN KLAS-KEKO AS
WELL AS THE KLOL-KEKO-KSLC ROUTE...CONDITIONS IMPROVE AFTER 04Z. RA
&&

.LKN WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE.

The radar

The Elko radar (KLRX), 142 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:29 UTC.

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Eureka

When: July 6, 1:30 PM PST
Where: Eureka County, 3 mi NE of (P68)eureka
Measured: 0.75 in hail
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 39.633, -115.967

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 2006 Every state in 2006 This day in weather history Warnings in Nevada, July 2006

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: 5521586.