A storm system brought heavy snow to the Ruby Mountains and East Humboldt Range.
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A storm system brought heavy snow to the Ruby Mountains and East Humboldt Range.
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 22, 1:45 AM PST, 8 hours 15 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV 245 AM PDT SUN APR 22 2007 .SYNOPSIS...UNSETTLED WEATHER TODAY THROUGH MONDAY AS A STORM SYSTEM MOVES ACROSS NEVADA. HIGH PRESSURE BUILDS OVER THE REGION TUESDAY FOR MOSTLY SUNNY SKIES AND WARMER HIGH TEMPERATURES. A WEAK SYSTEM WILL BRUSH ACROSS NORTHERN NEVADA AROUND THE MIDDLE OF THE WEEK FOR A THREAT OF SHOWERS. && .SHORT TERM...TODAY THROUGH TUESDAY. A TROUGH CURRENTLY OVER THE PAC NW COAST IS APPROACHING NEVADA. RAIN ASSOCIATED WITH THIS TROUGH BEGAN TO SPREAD ACROSS HUMBOLDT COUNTY LATE SATURDAY EVENING. PRECIPITATION IS EXPECTED TO SPREAD EAST ACROSS THE REST OF NORTHERN AND CENTRAL NEVADA THIS MORNING...AND CONTINUE THROUGH TONIGHT... EXITING EAST INTO UTAH MONDAY...WITH SOME LINGERING SHOWERS THROUGH MONDAY AFTERNOON OVER MAINLY THE EASTERN HALF OF NEVADA. MODELS ARE IN AGREEMENT THAT H7 TEMPS WILL BE NEAR -5C THROUGHOUT MOST OF THE EVENT...SUGGESTING A SNOW LEVEL OF AROUND 6000 FEET. THE CURRENT WINTER STORM WARNING FOR THE RUBY MOUNTAINS AND EAST HUMBOLDT RANGE...ALONG WITH THE SNOW ADVISORY FOR ELEVATIONS ABOVE 6000 FEET ACROSS THE REMAINING AREAS OF THE CWA (EXCLUDING HUMBOLDT COUNTY) FOR THIS MORNING THROUGH EARLY MONDAY LOOKS TO BE ON TRACK. SNOW SHOULD BEGIN EARLIER THAN 11AM THIS MORNING OVER PORTIONS OF THE ADVISORY AND WARNING AREAS...HOWEVER ACCUMULATIONS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BEGIN UNTIL LATER IN THE MORNING. STILL EXPECTING DRY CONDITIONS MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY AS HIGH PRESSURE BUILDS OVER NEVADA. ROOD .LONG TERM...TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY...MODELS ARE IN A LITTLE DISAGREEMENT MID-WEEK CONCERNING DEPTH OF WEAK SHORTWAVE PROGGED TO MOVE THROUGH. HOWEVER ONLY SLIGHT CHANCE WORDING IS IN FORECAST AND MAY HAVE TO MERELY ADJUST TIMING A BIT. OTHERWISE WEAK FLAT RIDGING OR NEAR ZONAL FLOW PERSISTS THURSDAY THROUGH SATURDAY KEEPING CWFA DRY. GFS IS THE MOST PROGRESSIVE...SHOWING TROUGH CLIPPING NRN NV AND ASSOCIATED LLVL COLD FRONT PUSHING INTO CNTRL NV AND STALLING. GFS AND DGEX SHOWING SCT RAIN AND SNOW SHOWERS ALONG AND NORTH OF INTERSTATE 80...WITH DRY CONDITIONS ACROSS CNTRL NV. ECMWF AND UKMET DIG THE SYSTEM MUCH FURTHER SOUTH INTO CNTRL NV WITH MUCH COOLER AIR OVER THE CWFA AND A BETTER CHANCE OF RAIN AND SNOW ACROSS MOST OF THE AREA THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT. FOR WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT...WENT WITH A BLEND TO DETERMINE POPS...SHIFTED/INCREASED POPS A LITTLE FURTHER SOUTH. WILL ADJUST TEMPS CAUTIOUSLY WITH WARMING TREND ANTICIPATED THIS WEEK. OTHERWISE...FORECAST IS STILL ON TRACK. LW && .AVIATION...A FEW RAIN BANDS ARE GETTING ORGANIZED THIS MORNING AND MOVING EAST THROUGH THE STATE. EXPECT LOWERING CIGS AND VIS THIS MORNING ACROSS NORTHERN AND CENTRAL NEVADA. RAIN MAY BECOME HEAVY AT TIMES ON SUNDAY...WITH SNOW MIXING DOWN TO ELEVATIONS AS LOW AS 5500 FEET. WIDESPREAD MVFR CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED ACROSS THE AREA...BEGINNING AT KEKO APPROXIMATELY 10Z...AND CLOSER TO DAWN AT KELY AND KTPH. IFR CONDITIONS ARE POSSIBLE IN HEAVIER RAIN BANDS SUNDAY MORNING THROUGH EARLY SUNDAY AFTERNOON...ESPECIALLY AT KEKO AND KELY WHERE PERIODS OF RAIN/SNOW MIX ARE EXPECTED. LW && .LKN WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... .SNOW ADVISORY ABOVE 6000 FEET FOR NVZ031>033 AND NVZ035>037-013 FROM 11AM PDT TODAY THROUGH MONDAY 8 AM .WINTER STORM WARNING 11AM PDT TODAY THROUGH MONDAY 8 AM FOR NVZ034.
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV 345 PM PDT SAT APR 21 2007 NVZ013-030>037-221300- EXTREME EASTERN ELKO COUNTY-HUMBOLDT COUNTY-NORTHERN ELKO COUNTY- NORTHERN LANDER AND NORTHERN EUREKA COUNTIES-NORTHERN NYE COUNTY- RUBY MOUNTAINS/EAST HUMBOLDT RANGE- SOUTHERN LANDER AND SOUTHERN EUREKA COUNTIES- SOUTHWEST AND SOUTH CENTRAL ELKO COUNTY-WHITE PINE COUNTY- 345 PM PDT SAT APR 21 2007 .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. RAIN AND HIGH ELEVATION SNOW WILL DEVELOP TONIGHT ACROSS THE GREAT BASIN...BEGINNING IN HUMBOLDT AND LANDER COUNTIES BY LATE THIS EVENING AND AFTER MIDNIGHT ELSEWHERE. SNOW LEVELS WILL GRADUALLY LOWER TO AROUND 6000 FEET BY MORNING WITH MODERATE TO LOCALLY HEAVY SNOWFALL EXPECT IN THE HIGHER ELEVATION MOUNTAIN PASSES OF NORTHWESTERN NEVADA. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. RAIN AND SNOW WILL CONTINUE ACROSS NORTHERN AND CENTRAL NEVADA THROUGH MONDAY. SNOW LEVELS ARE EXPECTED TO GRADUALLY LOWER TO VALLEY FLOORS BY SUNDAY NIGHT...HOWEVER...PRECIPITATION IS EXPECTED TO REMAIN MOSTLY RAIN BELOW 6000 FEET WITH LITTLE OR NO SNOW ACCUMULATION. SIGNIFICANT SNOW ACCUMULATION IS EXPECT IN THE MOUNTAINS AND MOUNTAIN PASSES ABOVE 6000 FEET. THEREFORE...A SNOW ADVISORY HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR ELEVATIONS ABOVE 6000 FEET FOR ALL OF CENTRAL NEVADA AND MOST OF NORTHEAST NEVADA. A WINTER STORM WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR THE RUBY MOUNTAINS AND EAST HUMBOLDT RANGE...WITH OVER A FOOT OF SNOW EXPECTED BY MONDAY. MOTORISTS ARE URGED TO MONITOR THE LATEST FORECASTS AND STATEMENTS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCERNING THIS LATE SEASON WINTER STORM. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ACCORDING TO STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES. TT
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 heavy snow. Local standard time, as filed.
Snotel sites in the Ruby Mountains and East Humboldt Range reported between 7 and 12 inches of new snow.
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