Heavy snow fell across portions of Elko County.
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The episode as NWS LKN wrote it up.
Heavy snow fell across portions of Elko 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 Jan 8, 4:07 AM PST, 8 hours 53 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV 407 AM PST TUE JAN 8 2008 ...CORRECTED START TIME OF SNOW ADVISORY FOR ZONES 32-34-36... .SYNOPSIS...A SERIES OF PACIFIC STORM SYSTEMS WILL CONTINUE TO AFFECT THE GREAT BASIN REGION THROUGH THURSDAY...BRINGING PERIODS OF SNOW TO NORTHERN AND CENTRAL NEVADA. HIGH PRESSURE WILL RETURN BY THIS WEEKEND FOR A PERIOD OF DRY WEATHER INTO EARLY NEXT WEEK. && .UPDATE...CHANGED START TIMES ON EXISTING SNOW ADVISORIES TO REFLECT EARLIER DEVELOPING SNOW. .PREV DISCUSSION...SHORT TERM...TODAY THROUGH THURSDAY. LATEST IR IMAGERY SHOWS WARM ADVECTION CLOUD SHIELD ASSOCIATED WITH NEXT STRONG H5 TROUGH MOVING INTO WRN NV AND ERN OREGON BUT WEAK RIDGING IS RESULTING IN CLEAR TO PARTLY CLOUDY SKIES OVER REST OF CWFA. IT HAS BEEN ANOTHER COLD NIGHT ACROSS EASTERN NV WITH LOWS IN THE SINGLE DIGITS IN THE VALLEYS AND JUST BELOW ZERO READINGS IN THE COLDEST VALLEYS DUE TO SNOW COVER. PATCHY FREEZING FOG IS AGAIN OCCURRING THIS AM IN SRN ELKO AND NRN EUREKA/LANDER COUNTIES BUT IT WONT LAST LONG THIS AM DUE TO AN INITIAL SHORTWAVE EJECTING FROM THE ABOVE- MENTIONED TROUGH. THIS FEATURE IS MOVING INTO NRN CALIF THIS MORNING AND SPREADING PRECIP INTO NRN HUMBOLDT AND WRN ELKO COUNTIES...WHICH WILL HELP KEEP TEMPS WARMER THERE COMPARED TO THE REST OF THE CWFA. IT WILL ADVANCE EWRD ACROSS THE CWFA BY TUES AFTERNOON WITH SNOW EXTENDING ACROSS NRN AND CENTRAL NV. THIS LOOKS LIKE A DOUBLE WHAMMY HIT FOR NRN NV WITH A SECOND ROUND OF PRECIP OCCURRING WHEN THE MAIN TROUGH AXIS MOVES THROUGH LATE TUES INTO WED MORNING. FARTHER SOUTH ACROSS CENTRAL...MAIN IMPACT FROM THIS STORM WILL BE WITH TROUGH AXIS PASSAGE TUESDAY NIGHT/WEDNESDAY MORNING...SO EXPECTING PRECIP AMOUNTS TO BE LOWER HERE. AS FOR QPF TOTALS...WRF/GFS ALL FAIRLY UNIFORM... SHOWING 0.20 TO 0.40 OF AN INCH OF LIQUID ACROSS NRN NV FROM TUES AM INTO WED MORNING WITH MOST OF THE PRECIP COMING LATE TUESDAY THROUGH JUST AFTER MIDNIGHT WED. GIVEN THIS AMOUNT OF MOISTURE...GOOD FORCING AND DECENT H3/H7 COUPLET...WILL NOT DEVIATE FROM CURRENT SNOW ADVISORIES FOR NORTHERN NV FOR 2 TO 5 INCHES OF SNOW. ALL OF THE SNOW SHOULD COME TO AN END ACROSS HUMBOLDT COUNTY BY TUES EVENING AND NERN NV BY LATE WED MORNING. ALTHOUGH DIRTY RIDGING LEADS TO A BRIEF RESPITE ON WED PM...A SECOND SHORT WAVE FOLLOWS RIGHT ON THE HEELS OF THE FIRST AND SPREADS PRECIP ACROSS THE REGION FROM MIDNIGHT THURS INTO THURS AFTERNOON. QPF AMOUNTS ARE NOT AS HIGH AS EARLIER SYSTEM BUT STILL SHOWING 0.10 TO 0.20 OF AN INCH OF PRECIP ACROSS THE NRN 2/3RDS OF CWFA THROUGH THURS AFTERNOON. ATTM...DOES NOT APPEAR ANY HEADLINES WILL BE NEEDED WITH THIS SECOND STORM SYSTEM. IT SHOULD ALSO BE WARMER THAN ITS PREDECESSOR WITH A GOOD CHANCE THAT SOME PRECIP WILL FALL AS RAIN ACROSS THE WRN CWFA...ESPECIALLY BELOW 5000-5500 FEET. AWG .LONG TERM...THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH NEXT MONDAY. MODELS APPEAR TO AGREE ON ENDING ACTIVE PATTERN BY THIS WEEKEND. CWFA WILL REMAIN UNDER RELATIVELY MILD NW FLOW ALOFT THROUGH FRIDAY. GFS MODEL SHOWS A COUPLE MORE SIGNIFICANT SHORTWAVES MOVING THROUGH...THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY...AS PACIFIC RIDGE GENTLY BUILDS AND SHIFTS EAST. UNSETTLED WEATHER PATTERN WILL CONTINUE THROUGH FRIDAY...WITH IMPROVING CONDITIONS FOR THE WEEKEND. HIGH PROBABILITY OF STRONG INVERSION SETTING UP OVER THE WEEKEND WITH AXIS OF PACIFIC RIDGE MOVING ONSHORE. LW .AVIATION...PATCHY FOG AROUND THIS MORNING DUE TO SHORT-LIVED CLEARING. KEKO EXPERIENCING VIS SENSOR PROBLEMS. CEILINGS WILL BE LOWERING WIDESPREAD DURING THE DAY TODAY...BEGINNING AT KWMC A COUPLE OF HOURS BEFORE DAYBREAK. SHOWERS WILL BE MAINLY NORTH OF INTERSTATE 80 IN NORTHERN NEVADA AS WEAK FRONT MOVES THROUGH WITH HEAVIEST PRECIPITATION NEAR THE ID BORDER. AT KWMC KEKO AND KELY...EXPECT PREDOMINANT VFR CONDITIONS WITH PERIODIC DEGRADATION TO IFR. KTPH SHOULD HOLD IN VFR CATEGORY. LW && .LKN WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... SNOW ADVISORY FROM 6AM PST TUESDAY THROUGH 10PM PST TUESDAY FOR NVZ30. SNOW ADVISORY FROM 8AM PST TUESDAY THROUGH 7AM PST WEDNESDAY FOR NVZ31. SNOW ADVISORY FROM 8AM PST TUESDAY THROUGH 7AM PST WEDNESDAY FOR NVZ32-34-36. &&
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV 325 AM PST TUE JAN 8 2008 NVZ013-030>037-090000- 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- 325 AM PST TUE JAN 8 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHERN AND CENTRAL NEVADA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. PATCHY FREEZING FOG DEVELOPED IN THE VALLEYS OF ELKO AND NORTHERN LANDER/EUREKA COUNTIES BUT IT WILL DISSIPATE AS THE NEXT STORM SYSTEM APPROACHES LATER THIS MORNING. THIS SYSTEM WILL BRING MODERATE SNOW ACCUMULATIONS TO NORTHERN NEVADA TODAY AND TONIGHT. PLEASE CHECK BULLETIN RNOWSWLKN FOR DETAILS ON THE SNOW ADVISORIES. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY. AN UNSETTLED PATTERN WILL CONTINUE ACROSS THE REGION THROUGH THE WORK WEEK. THE ABOVE SYSTEM WILL CONTINUE TO AFFECT NORTHERN NEVADA THROUGH EARLY WEDNESDAY MORNING. TOTAL SNOW ACCUMULATIONS OF 2 TO 5 INCHES ARE EXPECTED ACROSS NORTHERN NEVADA WITH 5 TO 7 INCHES IN THE MOUNTAINS. SNOW ACCUMULATIONS ACROSS CENTRAL NEVADA WILL RANGE FROM 1 TO 3 INCHES WITH THE HIGHEST AMOUNTS MOST LIKELY OVER NORTHERN WHITE PINE COUNTY. ANOTHER SYSTEM WILL MOVE ACROSS NORTHERN AND CENTRAL NEVADA WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY WITH ADDITIONAL LIGHT SNOW ACCUMULATIONS POSSIBLE. SOME OF THE LOWER VALLEYS IN HUMBOLDT AND LANDER COUNTIES MAY ALSO SEE SOME RAIN WITH THIS SYSTEM AS WARMER AIR AHEAD OF THE SYSTEM WILL RAISE SNOW LEVELS TO AROUND 5000-5500 FEET. SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ACCORDING TO STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES. AWG
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
3 heavy snow. Local standard time, as filed.
Eight to 11 inches of snow was reported by several Snotel sites.
Seven inches of snow fell at Wild Horse Reservoir.
Six inches of new snow was reported in Elko and Ryndon.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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