Name: Damaging Wind in Nevada, July 26, 2008
Start: 2008-07-26T17:10
End: 2008-07-26T17:10
Location: Nevada

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: None recorded
Crop damage: None recorded
Events: 1

Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.

What happened

The episode as NWS LKN wrote it up.

A thunderstorm produced a microburst in Ely with a wind gust of 61 mph at the Ely airport.

What forecasters said that day

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, 1:40 PM PST, 3 hours 30 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 26, 1:40 PM PST, 3 hours 30 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV
240 PM PDT SAT JUL 26 2008

.SYNOPSIS...MONSOON MOISTURE WILL BRING ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS TO
EAST CENTRAL NEVADA THROUGH EARLY NEXT WEEK...OTHERWISE DRY AND
HOT WEATHER WILL PREVAIL ACROSS THE REGION.
&&

.SHORT TERM...TONIGHT THROUGH MONDAY. SATELLITE PICS SHOW MONSOON
MOISTURE HAS MOVED INTO EAST-CENTRAL NV THIS AFTERNOON WITH SOME
ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ALREADY FORMING. THIS MOISTURE WILL
REMAIN IN ABOUT THE SAME AREA ON SUNDAY BUT PRECIPITABLE WATER
VALUES INCREASE TO A OVER 3/4 INCH OVER ERN WHITE PINE COUNTY SO
WILL SEE A BETTER CHANCE FOR WETTING RAINS. STILL KEPT
THUNDERSTORMS COVERAGE IN THE ISOLATED CATEGORY BUT COVERAGE WILL
BE A LITTLE HIGHER THEN TODAY. ON MONDAY THIS MOISTURE BEGINS TO GET
PUSHED TO THE EAST AS A SHORT WAVE TROUGH PUSHES INTO THE PAC NW.
THERE WILL STILL BE ENOUGH MOISTURE FOR SOME ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS
MAINLY OVER SRN WHITE PINE AND THE ERN PORTION OF NRN NYE. CEC

.LONG TERM...MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY. FAIRLY STAGNANT WEATHER
PATTERN SHAPING UP FOR NEXT WEEK...WITH A WEAK UPPER LOW ALONG THE
SW CANADA COASTAL REGION AND A RIDGE OF HIGH PRESSURE OVER THE
DESERT SOUTHWEST. PRECIPITABLE WATERS PROGGED AT OR BELOW 0.35
INCHES WITH MINIMAL AFTERNOON INSTABILITY ACROSS THE CWA. BEST
CHANCE FOR A THUNDERSTORMS OR TWO DURING THE LONG TERM FORECAST
PERIOD WILL BE WILL TUESDAY AFTERNOON OVER WHITE PINE COUNTY.
OTHERWISE...REMAINDER OF THE WEEK LOOKS STORM-FREE...WITH PROBABLY
ONLY SOME AFTERNOON CLOUD BUILD-UPS OVER EAST-CENTRAL NEVADA.
STRONGEST WINDS IN THE LONG TERM APPEAR TO BE TUESDAY AFTERNOON
ACROSS NORTHERN NEVADA. TEMPERATURES ARE EXPECTED TO BE NEAR OR
SLIGHTLY ABOVE NORMAL THROUGH NEXT WEEK AS HIGH PRESSURE DOMINATES
ACROSS THE REGION. ROOD
&&

.AVIATION...VFR CONDITIONS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH SUNDAY. AFTERNOON
CUMULUS CLOUDS WILL BUILD UP OVER EAST-CENTRAL NEVADA WITH A SLIGHT
CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS BOTH THIS AFTERNOON AND AGAIN ON SUNDAY.
NORTHWESTERN NEVADA WILL BE MOSTLY CLEAR THROUGH THE WEEKEND. ROOD
&&

.FIRE WEATHER...SOME MONSOON MOISTURE HAS MOVED INTO CENTRAL NV THIS
AFTERNOON WITH ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS BEGINNING TO FORM. WITH
PRECIPITABLE WATER VALUES ONLY AROUND 1/2 INCH EXPECT STORMS TO BE
DRY. PRECIPITABLE WATER VALUES INCREASE TO AROUND 3/4 INCH OVER THE
ERN PORTION OF WHITE PINE COUNTY ON SUNDAY SO SOME STORMS IN THAT
AREA COULD PRODUCE WETTING RAINS...OTHERWISE MOST STORMS WILL BE
DRY. MOISTURE REMAINS IN ABOUT THE SAME PLACE SO THUNDERSTORMS WILL
REMAIN CONFINED TO ZONE 455...ERN 457...AND THE SERN CORNER OF 452.
MOISTURE DECREASES FURTHER ON MONDAY WITH ONLY A SLIGHT CHANCE OF A
DRY THUNDERSTORM OVER EAST CENTRAL NV. A SHORT WAVE WILL BRUSH NRN NV
ON TUESDAY. LOOKS LIKE WINDS WILL GET NEAR RED FLAG CRITERIA. WILL
KEEP A CLOSE EYE ON IT FOR POSSIBLE ISSUANCE OF A FIRE WEATHER WATCH
DOWN THE ROAD. CEC &&

.LKN WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 26, 4:17 PM PST, 53 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV
517 PM PDT SAT JUL 26 2008

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0447 PM     TSTM WND GST     7 NNW EUREKA            39.59N 116.00W
07/26/2008  M59.00 MPH       EUREKA             NV   ASOS

&&

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The radar

The Elko radar (KLRX), 231 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 01:08 UTC.

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Event by event

1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.

Thunderstorm Wind, White Pine

When: July 26, 5:10 PM PST
Where: White Pine County, (Ely)yelland Fld Ely
Measured: 53 kt (61 mph) measured gust
Reported by: ASOS
Coordinates: 39.300, -114.850

A microburst produced a wind gust to 61 mph at the Ely airport.

What these are

Thunderstorm Wind: Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.

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Sources

NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 107536.