Six to eleven inches of snow fell in the Ruby Mountains and East Humboldt range.
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Six to eleven inches of snow fell in 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 Jun 5, 1:59 PM PST, 4 hours 1 minute earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV 259 PM PDT TUE JUN 5 2007 .SYNOPSIS...A STRONG LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM WILL BRING SHOWERS ALONG WITH MUCH COOLER TEMPERATURES THROUGH WEDNESDAY. TEMPERATURES WILL THEN WARM BACK TO NEAR NORMAL BY THE WEEKEND. && .SHORT TERM...COLD FRONT NOW WORKING ITS WAY INTO ERN NV. RADAR AND SFC OBS INDICATE SCATTERED SHOWERS BEHIND THE FRONT. WILL CONTINUE WITH LIKELY POPS TONIGHT EXCEPT IN THE FAR SRN PORTION OF THE FCST AREA AS BOTH GFS/NAM SHOW DECENT QPF AMOUNTS ON THE ORDER OF A QUARTER TO A THIRD OF AN INCH ACROSS THE NORTH WITH THE HIGHEST AMOUNTS OVER ERN NV. SECONDARY SHORT WAVE ROTATING AROUND MAIN LOW WILL MOVE ACROSS NRN NV ON WEDNESDAY BRINGING SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS SHOWERS. ANOTHER WEAK SHORT WAVE WILL DROP INTO NRN NV THURSDAY WITH MODELS SHOWING SOME LIGHT PRECIPITATION ACROSS NERN NV. SNOW LEVELS WILL DROP TO AROUND 6000 FEET LATE TONIGHT AND WEDNESDAY MORNING BUT EXPECTING LITTLE IN THE WAY OF ACCUMULATION BELOW 7500 FEET DUE TO WARM GROUND TEMPS FROM RECENT WARM WEATHER. WILL CONTINUE WITH WIND ADVISORIES FOR CENTRAL NEVADA THROUGH 8 PM AND FOR THE WEST WENDOVER AREA BEGINNING AT 5 PM AS WINDS WILL CONTINUE TO INCREASE AS THE FRONT APPROACHES. CEC .LONG TERM...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. NORTHERLY FLOW WILL CONTINUE AFTER THE MAIN TROUGH PUSHES EASTWARD. A SECONDARY TROUGH WILL FORM BEHIND IT CAUSING A SPLIT IN THE FLOW WITH THE CWA WEDGED IN BETWEEN A RIDGE IN THE MAIN FLOW TO THE NORTH AND A TROUGH IN THE SOUTH. THIS SHOULD KEEP THING RELATIVELY QUIET FOR THE BEGINNING OF THE WEEKEND. TEMPERATURES WILL SLOWLY WARM THROUGH THE WEEKEND... BUT SHOULD NOT GET AS WARM AS THE PREVIOUS WEEK DID. BY SUNDAY THE PATTERN BECOMES MORE ZONAL WITH ANOTHER LOW APPROACHING THE NORTHWESTERN US BY SUNDAY AFTERNOON. MODELS ARE IN DISAGREEMENT WITH THIS LOW. DUE TO THIS...HAVE MADE VERY FEW CHANGES IN THE FORECAST EXCEPT ADDED SLIGHT CHANCE POPS FOR NORTHEASTERN NEVADA TOWARDS THE END OF THE PACKAGE. IPPI && .AVIATION...CONDITIONS WILL CONTINUE TO DETERIORATE THROUGH THE EVENING HOURS AS A COLD FRONT PUSHES THROUGH THE SILVER STATE. WINDS WILL PICK UP AND GUSTS AS HIGH AS 40KTS MAY OCCUR. THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT AND RAIN SHOWERS WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE EASTWARD AS WELL TONIGHT. AS TEMPERATURES DROP TONIGHT...RAIN MAY CHANGE OVER TO SNOW IN THE HIGH ELEVATIONS AND ALSO THE HIGH VALLEYS. IPPI && .FIRE WEATHER...CURRENT RED FLAG WARNING STILL ON TRACK FOR ZONES 455 AND 457 AS OBS SHOW WINDS HAVE BEEN GUSTING OVER 30 MPH AT SOME LOCATIONS AND WINDS WILL CONTINUE TO INCREASE AS COLD FRONT APPROACHES. RH VALUES ARE BELOW 15 PCT AT MOST LOCATIONS. BEHIND THE FRONT THIS EVENING SHOWERS WILL SPREAD ACROSS THE AREA WITH MANY LOCATIONS ACROSS THE NORTH RECEIVING A WETTING RAIN. A SECONDARY LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM WILL MOVE INTO NRN NV ON WEDNESDAY BRINGING SCATTERED SHOWERS TO MOST AREAS. SOME SHOWERS WILL CONTINUE TO LINGER ACROSS FAR NERN NV ON THURSDAY AS YET ANOTHER LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM CLIPS THE AREA. CEC && .LKN WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM PDT TODAY FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 455 AND 457. WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FOR CENTRAL NEVADA ZONES NVZ013-035-037 UNTIL 8 PM PDT TODAY. WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FOR EXTREME EASTERN ELKO COUNTY ZONE NVZ033 FROM 5 PM PDT TODAY THROUGH 5 PM PDT WEDNESDAY.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 heavy snow. Local standard time, as filed.
A storm system brought 6 to 11 inches of snow to the Ruby Mountains and East Humboldt range as reported by Snotel sites and an off duty NWS employee.
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