Heavy rains washed basketball size rocks over the Charleston-Jarbidge road about 3 miles north of Charleston.
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Heavy rains washed basketball size rocks over the Charleston-Jarbidge road about 3 miles north of Charleston.
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 26, 1:30 AM PST, 10 hours 30 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV 230 AM PDT THU JUL 26 2007 .SYNOPSIS...MOISTURE AND INSTABILITY WILL REMAIN ACROSS CENTRAL AND EASTERN NEVADA THROUGH THE MIDDLE OF NEXT WEEK FOR A THREAT OF THUNDERSTORMS EACH DAY. && .SHORT TERM...A DRIER SWLY FLOW ALOFT IS BEGINNING TO ADVECT INTO THE REGION. HOWEVER THERE WILL STILL BE ENOUGH MOISTURE AND INSTABILITY ACROSS ALL BUT THE WRN HALF OF HUMBOLDT COUNTY TODAY FOR ISOLATED TO SCATTERED TSTMS. HOWEVER WITH PW VALUES FALLING BELOW AN INCH THE THREAT OF HEAVY RAIN WILL BE DIMINISHED...ESPECIALLY OVER THE WRN PORTION OF THE FORECAST AREA. ON FRIDAY THIS DRIER AIR WILL WORK A LITTLE FURTHER EAST ACROSS NRN NV AND KEEP THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY MOSTLY CONFINED TO ERN ELKO COUNTY AND ACROSS CNTRL NV. PW VALUES WILL CONTINUE TO DECREASE WITH VALUES GENERALLY RANGING BETWEEN 0.50 AND 0.75 INCHES. CEC .LONG TERM...FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH NEXT WEDNESDAY NIGHT...LONG RANGE MODELS IN GOOD AGREEMENT WITH PERSISTENT PATTERN OVER THE NEXT WEEK. MODELS SHOW POSITION OF UPPERLEVEL HIGH A BIT FURTHER SOUTH COMPARED TO PREV. MODEL RUNS...JUST SOUTH OF THE FOUR CORNERS REGION OF THE UNITED STATES...WITH SOUTH TO SOUTHEASTERLY FLOW REMAINING OVER THE ERN HALF OF THE GREAT BASIN REGION. LOW TO MIDLEVEL SUBTROPICAL MOISTURE EXPECTED TO REMAIN OVER MOST OF THE ERN CWFA THROUGH NEXT WEEKEND...WITH SOME DRYING ACROSS WRN NV. DAYTIME TEMPS EXPECTED TO BE IN THE MID TO UPPER 90S THROUGH THE PERIOD WITH MILD OVERNIGHT LOWS IN THE UPPER 50S AND 60S. KEPT THE CHC OF TSTORMS IN THE FORECAST EACH AFTERNOON WITH THE EXCEPTION OF HUMBOLDT COUNTY AND NRN LANDER/EUREKA COUNTY...WHICH WILL LIKELY BE THE DRIEST DUE TO A GREATER WESTERLY WIND COMPONENT IN THE LOW TO MIDLEVELS. ANOTHER STRONG MONSOON PUSH POSSIBLE BY TUESDAY OF NEXT WEEK WITH PW/S INCREASING TO OVER 1 INCH ONCE AGAIN. INCREASED POPS ON TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY...WITH WEAK UPPERLEVEL DISTURBANCE MOVING ACROSS ERN NV BY WEDNESDAY. TT && .AVIATION...VFR CONDITIONS THROUGH 9AM THURS MORNING. AFTERNOON SHOWERS AND TSTORMS POSSIBLE ONCE AGAIN AT KEKO AND KELY. OTHER THAN SOME BRIEF HEAVY RAIN AND OCCASIONAL LIGHTNING IN TSTORMS...NO MAJOR CONCERNS ATTM. && .FIRE WEATHER...DRIER AIR MOVING IN FROM THE WEST TODAY WILL ELIMINATE THE THREAT OF TSTMS FROM THE WRN PORTION OF ZONE 451. ELSEWHERE STILL EXPECTING WIDELY SCATTERED TO SCATTERED TSTMS BUT THE THREAT OF HEAVY RAIN WILL BE DIMINISHED...ESPECIALLY OVER THE WRN HALF OF THE FIRE DISTRICT...AS PW VALUES DROP BELOW ONE INCH. FURTHER DRYING FROM THE WEST WILL TAKE PLACE ON FRIDAY WITH THE THREAT OF THUNDERSTORMS MAINLY CONFINED TO CNTRL NV AND ERN ELKO COUNTY IN NRN NV. PW VALUES WILL CONTINUE TO DROP RANGING BETWEEN 0.50 TO 0.75 INCHES. SOME TSTMS WILL BE DRY...ESPECIALLY OVER THE WRN PORTION OF THE THREAT AREA. THE THREAT OF TSTMS WILL CONTINUE INTO THE MIDDLE OF NEXT WEEK OVER CNTRL AND ERN NV. TSTMS WILL BE MOSTLY DRY OVER THE WEEKEND INTO EARLY NEXT WEEK THEN WETTEN UP AGAIN AROUND TUE AS ANOTHER SURGE OF MONSOON MOISTURE WORKS IT WAY NWD INTO ERN NV. CEC && .LKN WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE.
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV
1106 AM PDT THU JUL 26 2007
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0100 AM HEAVY RAIN 16 WSW CRESCENT VALLEY 40.35N 116.86W
07/26/2007 E1.80 INCH LANDER NV OTHER FEDERAL
LEWIS PEAK SNOTEL...12-HOUR RAINFALL
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RCMThe Elko radar (KLRX), 152 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 19:58 UTC.
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Runoff from a thunderstorm carried basketball size rocks down a steep slope and across the Charleston-jarbidge road about 3 miles north of Charleston.
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