A winter storm generally dumped 6 to 8 inches of snow across the county.
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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.
The episode as NWS LKN wrote it up.
A winter storm generally dumped 6 to 8 inches of snow across the 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 23, 9:32 PM PST, 2 hours 58 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV 932 PM PST TUE FEB 23 2010 .SYNOPSIS...A PACIFIC STORM SYSTEM WILL BRING A MIX OF SNOW AND RAIN TO NORTHERN AND CENTRAL NEVADA LATE TONIGHT AND WEDNESDAY. A SECOND STORM SYSTEM WILL AFFECT THE REGION ON SATURDAY. TEMPERATURES THROUGH THE WEEKEND WILL BE NEAR NORMAL. && .UPDATE...SNOW IS SPREADING INTO THE FORECAST AREA FASTER THAN ORIGINALLY THOUGHT...IN RESPONSE TO SHORT WAVE AND UPPER SUPPORT FROM INCOMING 120KT JET. WILL UP POPS FOR THE REMAINDER OF TONIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...AND ALSO A BIT FOR WEDNESDAY NIGHT. BASED ON 00Z MODEL RUNS SNOWFALL COULD REACH ADVISORY THRESHOLD IN SOME AREAS...ESPECIALLY NORTHERN ELKO COUNTY. HOWEVER...TEMPERATURES WILL ALSO BE MARGINAL IN VALLEYS. WILL NEED TO KEEP AN EYE ON. REA && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED AT 235 PM / SYNOPSIS...A PACIFIC STORM SYSTEM WILL BRING A MIX OF SNOW AND RAIN TO NORTHERN AND CENTRAL NEVADA LATE TONIGHT INTO WEDNESDAY. A SECOND AND MORE ROBUST STORM SYSTEM WILL AFFECT THE REGION FROM LATE FRIDAY INTO SATURDAY AND HAS THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE SIGNIFICANT SNOWFALL. && SHORT TERM...TONIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY. A PLUME OF PACIFIC MOISTURE (PW'S AROUND 1") IS CURRENTLY MOVING ONTO THE WEST COAST IN ASSOCIATION WITH A LONG WAVE TROUGH. A LOT OF THIS MOISTURE WILL GET WRUNG OUT BEFORE CROSSING THE SIERRAS TONIGHT...BUT INEVITABLY SOME PRECIP WILL REACH THE LKN CWA LATE TONIGHT AND WEDNESDAY. SHORT TERM MODELS IN GOOD AGREEMENT SHOWING BETWEEN 0.10-0.20" OF QPF ACROSS THE REGION THROUGH WEDNESDAY...EXCEPT OVER NORTHERN NYE WHERE QPF AMOUNTS OF 0.30-0.40" ARE FOUND. THE DILEMMA WITH THIS SYSTEM IS TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHAT SNOW LEVELS WILL BE. AS OF NOW IT APPEARS LIKE ELEVATIONS ABOVE 5500 FEET WILL SEE ALL SNOW...WITH THE LOWEST VALLEYS...ESPECIALLY THOSE UNDER 4500 FEET MIXING WITH OR CHANGING TO ALL RAIN DURING THE DAY WEDNESDAY. GIVEN THE EXPECTED SNOW LEVELS AND LIGHT QPF AMOUNTS...WILL LIKELY SEE 1-3 INCHES OF SNOW AT AND ABOVE 5000 FEET THROUGH WEDNESDAY EVENING. SNOW AMOUNTS WILL GENERALLY BE LESS THAN AN INCH BELOW 5000 FEET. IT'S POSSIBLE THAT PARTS OF NORTHERN NYE COUNTY PICKS UP MORE THAN 3 INCHES OF SNOW ON WEDNESDAY...BUT GIVEN PROBLEMS THE MODELS HAVE HAD WITH QPF IN THAT AREA RECENTLY WILL WAIT TO SEE HOW THINGS PLAY OUT AND NOT ISSUE A WINTER WX ADVISORY ATTM. LINGERING MOISTURE AND SUFFICIENT LIFT WILL ALLOW SCATTERED SNOW SHOWERS ACROSS MUCH OF THE REGION WEDNESDAY NIGHT WITH ONLY MINOR LOCAL ACCUMULATIONS. A RIDGE OF HIGH PRESSURE WILL BUILD BACK ACROSS THE REGION THROUGH THE DAY ON THURSDAY. STILL COULD BE SOME ISOLATED SNOW SHOWERS ACROSS EASTERN NV...MAINLY IN THE MORNING. BY FRIDAY...THE NEXT PACIFIC STORM SYSTEM WILL BE PLOWING INTO THE WEST COAST. ANOTHER ROUND OF RAIN AND SNOW SHOULD DEVELOP ACROSS NW NV BY AFTERNOON. LONG TERM...FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH NEXT TUESDAY. TROUGH ALONG THE WEST COAST WITH SOUTH-SOUTHWESTERLY FLOW ALOFT OVER THE GREAT BASIN TO BEGIN THE WEEKEND. GEM...ECMWF...AND GFS MODELS ARE IN PRETTY GOOD AGREEMENT WITH THE ONSHORE PUSH OF THE TROUGH THROUGH THE WEEKEND. GFS IS A LITTLE MORE PROGRESSIVE THAN THE OTHER MODELS...HOWEVER THE 12Z GFS RUN DID SLOW THE EASTERN PROGRESSION OF THE SYSTEM BY A FEW HOURS OVER ITS 06Z RUN. SHOWERS ARE EXPECTED TO MOVE INTO HUMBOLDT COUNTY FRIDAY EVENING...WITH CEILINGS LOWERING OVERNIGHT ACROSS THE STATE. BY 12Z SATURDAY ALL MODELS IN AGREEMENT THAT PRECIPITATION WILL SPREAD EAST TO THE JARBIDGE AND RUBY MTNS ACROSS THE NORTH...AND INTO WESTERN WHITE PINE COUNTY ACROSS CENTRAL NEVADA. MODELS SHOWING BETWEEN A TENTH AND QUARTER INCH OF QPF ACROSS WESTERN AND CENTRAL PORTIONS OF THE CWA FRIDAY NIGHT...WITH ANOTHER TENTH TO A THIRD OF AN INCH OVER CENTRAL AND EASTERN AREAS SATURDAY. H7 TEMPS FRIDAY EVENING RANGE FROM AROUND -2 TO -5C...LOWERING TO AROUND -6 TO -8C SATURDAY AFTERNOON. AT THIS TIME IT LOOKS LIKE RAIN BELOW 5000FT FRIDAY NIGHT...A RAIN/SNOW MIX BETWEEN 5000 AND 6000 FEET FRIDAY NIGHT CHANGING OVER TO MOSTLY SNOW BY SATURDAY MORNING...WITH ALL SNOW ABOVE 6000FT. BEST BET AT A HEADLINE IN THE LONG TERM PERIOD WOULD BE FOR A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY ABOVE 6000FT BEGINNING FRIDAY EVENING IN WESTERN AREAS...AND ENDING SATURDAY EVENING ACROSS EASTERN AREAS. SYSTEM EXITS TO THE EAST SATURDAY NIGHT INTO SUNDAY...HOWEVER LINGERING MOUNTAIN SHOWERS OVER EASTERN NEVADA ARE EXPECTED INTO SUNDAY EVENING UNDER A NORTHWESTERLY FLOW. A RIDGE BUILDS IN FROM THE EAST LATE IN THE WEEKEND INTO MONDAY FOR DRY CONDITIONS ACROSS THE CWA. SOUTHWESTERLY FLOW ALOFT RETURNS MONDAY AS THE NEXT SYSTEM APPROACHES THE WEST COAST...WITH BEST CHANCE OF SHOWERS IN THIS SYSTEM IN THE TUESDAY EVENING AND NIGHT TIME-FRAME. && AVIATION...CLOUDS INCREASING ACROSS THE GREAT BASIN THIS AFTERNOON...WITH CEILINGS OF AROUND 15K FEET ACROSS EASTERN NEVADA...AND DOWN TO 10K FEET ACROSS WESTERN NEVADA...AS A TROUGH PUSHES INTO THE WEST COAST. CEILING WILL CONTINUE TO LOWER THIS EVENING AND OVERNIGHT...WITH SHOWERS SPREADING WEST TO EAST ACROSS THE GREAT BASIN OVERNIGHT...PRODUCING MVFR OR IFR CONDITIONS IN MANY AREAS. SURFACE GRADIENT OVERNIGHT WILL BE SOUTHEAST TO NORTHWEST. 10K FT WINDS TONIGHT WILL RANGE FROM 20KTS OVER EAST- CENTRAL NEVADA...UP TO 45KTS OVER NORTHWEST NEVADA AHEAD OF THE FRONT. WEAK LOW LEVEL INVERSIONS SHOULD HELP TO KEEP GUSTS FROM REACHING THE SURFACE IN MOST AREAS...HOWEVER COULD SEE SOME BRIEF GUSTS...ESPECIALLY ALONG THE FRONTAL BOUNDARY LATER TONIGHT. && && .LKN WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && 90/95
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV 215 PM PST TUE FEB 23 2010 NVZ013-030>037-241500- NORTHERN NYE COUNTY-HUMBOLDT COUNTY-NORTHERN ELKO COUNTY- SOUTHWEST AND SOUTH CENTRAL ELKO COUNTY- EXTREME EASTERN ELKO COUNTY-RUBY MOUNTAINS/EAST HUMBOLDT RANGE- WHITE PINE COUNTY- NORTHERN LANDER COUNTY AND NORTHERN EUREKA COUNTY- SOUTHERN LANDER COUNTY AND SOUTHERN EUREKA COUNTY- 215 PM PST TUE FEB 23 2010 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHERN AND CENTRAL NEVADA. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. A PACIFIC STORM SYSTEM WILL BRING LIGHT SNOW TO NORTHERN NEVADA TONIGHT. THIS LIGHT SNOW WILL REACH THE HIGHWAY 50 CORRIDOR BY DAYBREAK ON WEDNESDAY. VALLEY LOCATIONS IN HUMBOLDT COUNTY BELOW 4500 FEET WILL SEE A MIX OF RAIN AND SNOW TONIGHT. SNOW ACCUMULATIONS WILL RANGE FROM UP TO 2 INCHES IN HUMBOLDT COUNTY AND NORTHWEST ELKO COUNTY...ABOVE 4500 FEET...TO LESS THAN A HALF INCH AS FAR SOUTH AS HIGHWAY 50. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY. THE STORM SYSTEM WILL CONTINUE TO AFFECT THE REGION ON WEDNESDAY WITH THE HEAVIEST PRECIPITATION EXPECTED OVER CENTRAL AND EASTERN NEVADA. SNOW LEVELS WILL HOVER BETWEEN 4500 AND 5000 FEET IN NORTHERN NEVADA WHILE RISING TO AROUND 5500 FEET IN NORTHERN NYE COUNTY. THE PRIMARY PRECIPITATION TYPE WILL BE SNOW ON WEDNESDAY EXCEPT FOR ELEVATIONS BELOW 4500 FEET IN NORTHERN NEVADA AND THE LOWEST VALLEYS OF NORTHERN NYE COUNTY. SNOW ACCUMULATIONS ARE EXPECTED TO BE IN THE 1 TO 3 INCH RANGE...EXCEPT LESS THAN AN INCH OVER HUMBOLDT COUNTY. A SECOND AND MORE ROBUST STORM SYSTEM IS EXPECTED TO AFFECT THE REGION FROM LATE FRIDAY THROUGH SATURDAY EVENING. ALTHOUGH THE DETAILS OF THIS SYSTEM ARE STILL UNCERTAIN...THIS SYSTEM HAS THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE SIGNIFICANT SNOWFALL ACROSS NORTHERN AND CENTRAL NEVADA ON SATURDAY. PLEASE STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR FAVORITE MEDIA OUTLET FOR THE LATEST ON THIS STORM SYSTEM. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS ARE ASKED TO REPORT WEATHER PHENOMENA ACCORDING TO STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURE.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 heavy snow. Local standard time, as filed.
A winter storm brought 8 inches of snow to Wild Horse, 6 inches to Mountain City, and 8 inches to Jacks Peak and SeventySix Creek (SNOTEL sites).
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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