A storm system brought heavy snow to southern White Pine County.
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A storm system brought heavy snow to southern White Pine County.
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 Feb 12, 1:57 PM PST, 5 hours 33 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV 157 PM PST MON FEB 12 2007 .SYNOPSIS...UNSETTLED WEATHER WILL CONTINUE ACROSS THE GREAT BASIN THROUGH TUESDAY. SNOW WILL BE HEAVY AT TIMES OVER WHITE PINE AND NORTHEASTERN NYE COUNTIES COUNTIES THIS EVENING THROUGH TUESDAY NOON. THEN HIGH PRESSURE WILL BRING DRY CONDITIONS TO THE AREA FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE WEEK. && .SHORT TERM...MODELS HAVE BEEN IN AGREEMENT LAST SEVERAL DAYS FORECASTING STRONG DYNAMICS OVER EAST CENTRAL NEVADA FOR TONIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY. THIS INCLUDES STRONG 300/700MB COUPLETS AND UVV OF +3 OR GREATER. THEREFORE...WILL ISSUE A HEAVY SNOW WARNING FOR WHITE PINE AND NYE COUNTIES COUNTIES FROM 6 PM THIS EVENING THROUGH NOON TUESDAY. EXPECT 8 TO 12 INCHES SOUTHERN MOUNTAIN OF WHITE PINE AND NORTHEASTERN NYE COUNTIES AND 4 TO 8 INCHES VALLEYS. QPF AMOUNTS FORECASTING CLOSE TO A FOOT IN THIS AREA. AT SAME TIME...EVEN THOUGH DYNAMICS WEAKER OVER SOUTHERN EUREKA COUNTY...THINK STRONG ENOUGH TO WARRANT A SNOW ADVISORY. NORTHERN WHITE PINE AND REMAINDER OF NYE COUNTY LOOKS CLOSER TO SNOW ADVISORY CRITERIA. PROBLEM IF TROF DEEPENS...DYNAMICS COULD ACTUALLY SHOVE INTO SOUTHERN NV OR UTAH. MODELS INDICATE LINGERING SNOW SHOWERS OVER WHITE PINE COUNTY TUESDAY EVENING...OTHERWISE DRY REST OF CWA. DIRTY RIDGE BUILDS INTO CWA WEDNESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY FOR PERHAPS A FEW SHOWERS ALONG THE ID-NV BORDER...OTHERWISE CLOUDY AND DRY. HARMER .LONG TERM...THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH NEXT MONDAY...LONG RANGE MODELS IN GOOD AGREEMENT...SHOWING U/L HIGH PRESSURE BUILDING ACROSS THE ERN PAC BY LATE THIS WEEK...AND THEN INTO THE GREAT BASIN REGION BY THE WEEKEND. GFS AND ECMWF SHOW A SERIES OF WEAK CLIPPER SYSTEMS BRUSHING NE NV IN NORTHWEST FLOW ALOFT THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY. ONLY EXPECT SCT LIGHT SHOWERS AND SLIGHTLY COOLER TEMPS AT BEST WITH EACH SYSTEM...MAINLY NORTH OF I80 AND THE RUBY MOUNTAINS. KEPT POPS AROUND 20 PCT NORTH OF I80 THROUGH FRIDAY. AS U/L RIDGE AXIS PUSHES EAST THROUGH THE GREAT BASIN...TEMPS WILL MODIFY INTO THE 50S ACROSS MOST OF THE AREA DURING THE WEEKEND. HOWEVER...GFS AND ECMWF SHOW U/L TROUGH DIGGING OFF THE COAST OF CALIF DURING THE WEEKEND...WHICH WILL ALLOW A WEAK U/L LOW NEAR THE BAJA CALIF PENINSULA TO EJECT NORTHEAST...BECOMING A NEGATIVELY TILTED TROUGH AS IT PUSHES INTO NV. GFS CONSISTENT WITH SNOW/RAIN SHOWER ACTIVITY ACROSS THE CWFA AS THIS SYSTEM EJECT NORTHEAST WITH SOME MIDLEVEL INSTABILITY PRESENT. INCREASED POPS TO 20 TO 25 PCT STARTING SUNDAY AFTERNOON ACROSS CNTRL NV...AND FURTHER NORTH BY MORNING MORNING. TT && .AVIATION...SURFACE COLD FRONT EXPECTED TO STALL ACROSS CENTRAL NEVADA THIS EVENING AND TONIGHT...BRINGING SNOW TO KTPH AND KELY. A BRIEF PERIOD OF RAIN/SNOW MIX WILL BEGIN AROUND 9PM THIS EVENING...QUICKLY CHANGING TO ALL SNOW BY MIDNIGHT. SNOW MAY BECOME HEAVY AT TIMES IN THE VICINITY OF KELY...WITH LIFR CONDITIONS POSSIBLE AS VIS LOWERS TO 1/2 MILE WITH CIGS AROUND 500 FEET AGL. LIGHTER SNOW IS EXPECTED AT KTPH WHERE PERIODS OF MVFR CONDITIONS ARE POSSIBLE AROUND MIDNIGHT. AFTERNOON TAF PACKAGE WILL REFLECT EXPECTED DETERIORATING CONDITIONS TONIGHT...WILL WAIT TO SEE HOW THIS SYSTEM EVOLVES BEFORE ADDING LOWER FLIGHT CATEGORIES TO KELY TAF LATER THIS EVENING. OTHERWISE...VFR CONDITIONS EXPECTED AT KWMC AND KEKO THROUGH MIDNIGHT. && .LKN WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... .HEAVY SNOW WARNING FOR NVZ035-NVZ013 FROM 6 PM THIS EVENING THROUGH NOON TUESDAY. .SNOW ADVISORY FOR NVZ037 FROM 6 PM THIS EVENING THROUGH NOON TUESDAY.
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV 318 PM PST MON FEB 12 2007 NVZ013-035-037-131300- NORTHERN NYE COUNTY-SOUTHERN LANDER AND SOUTHERN EUREKA COUNTIES- WHITE PINE COUNTY- 318 PM PST MON FEB 12 2007 .DAY ONE...TONIGHT A WEATHER DISTURBANCE WILL BRING SNOW...HEAVY AT TIMES...TO WHITE PINE...NORTHERN NYE...SOUTHERN LANDER AND SOUTHERN EUREKA COUNTIES TONIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY NOON. A HEAVY SNOW WARNING IS EFFECT FOR WHITE PINE AND NORTHERN NYE COUNTIES. A SNOW ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHERN LANDER AND EUREKA COUNTIES TONIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY NOON. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY UNSETTLED WEATHER WILL CONTINUE THROUGH TUESDAY EVENING. ON WEDNESDAY...THE FLOW ALOFT WILL TURN MORE NORTHERLY AND BRING COOLER...BUT DRIER AIR INTO NORTHERN NEVADA ALLOWING FOR ONLY A SMALL RISK OF SHOWERS NEAR THE OREGON AND IDAHO BORDERS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS ARE ASKED TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER CONDITIONS ACCORDING TO STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES. HARMER
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 heavy snow. Local standard time, as filed.
Eleven inches of new snow was reported at the Great Basin National Park Vistor Center. Six inches of snow was reported in Murray Canyon along highway 6 about 5 miles southwest of Ely. Four inches of snow was reported in downtown Ely.
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