Thunderstorm winds gusted up to 61 mph across portions of Elko County.
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Thunderstorm winds gusted up to 61 mph 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 Jul 9, 1:50 AM PST, 11 hours 40 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV 250 AM PDT FRI JUL 9 2010 .SYNOPSIS...THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE REGION AGAIN TODAY...WITH THE BEST CHANCE OF ACTIVITY IN NORTHEASTERN NEVADA... OVER ELKO COUNTY. MOISTURE IS EXPECTED TO INCREASE ACROSS THE AREA TODAY AND TOMORROW...WHICH WILL INCREASE THE CHANCE OF RAIN REACHING THE GROUND. TEMPERATURES WILL CONTINUE TO BE NEAR TO SLIGHTLY ABOVE AVERAGE THROUGH THE WEEKEND...AND THEN ARE EXPECTED TO BE SLIGHTLY WARMER EARLY NEXT WEEK. && .SHORT TERM...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED ACROSS THE NORTHEAST TODAY...WITH THE HELP OF A WEAK UPPER WAVE AND INCREASED MOISTURE. A WEAK JET WILL NOSE IN FROM THE WEST-SOUTHWEST ACROSS CENTRAL NV TODAY...WITH FAVORABLE DIVERGENCE IN NE NV. THE ECMWF/GFS/SREF/NAM ALL PINPOINT ELKO COUNTY FOR THE MOST FAVORABLE LOCATION FOR DEEP CONVECTION. ACROSS ELKO COUNTY...THE NAM HAS CAPE RUNNING AROUND 300-600 J/KG WHILE THE GFS HAS 100-200 J/KG. THE SREF EVEN COMES IN WITH ABOUT 250-500 J/KG LOOKING AT THE MEAN VALUES ON SPCS PAGE. HAVE INCREASED COVERAGE TO SCATTERED. OTHERWISE...MOSTLY ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED ACROSS THE REST OF THE AREA. STORMS SHOULD BE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 15-25 MPH. MODELS HAVE ENOUGH MOST UNSTABLE CAPE FOR LOW-END ISOLATED SHOWERS/THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE NORTHEAST AND THE CENTRAL FORECAST AREA TONIGHT. AREA OF CLOUDS TONIGHT MAY HELP KEEP LOWS UP AS WELL. ON SATURDAY...FLOW GOES A LITTLE MORE ZONAL ACROSS THE AREA AHEAD OF APPROACHING UPPER WAVE FROM THE NW. THE BEST AREA FOR CONVECTION WILL BE ACROSS NORTHERN NYE AND WHITE PINE COUNTIES...BUT GENERALLY ONLY ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED ACROSS THE ENTIRE AREA ON SATURDAY. TEMPERATURES WILL BE NEAR TO SLIGHTLY ABOVE AVERAGE TODAY AND TOMORROW. .LONG TERM...SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY. LONGWAVE PATTERN CONTINUES TO FEATURES A WIDESPREAD AREA OF TROFFING OFF THE CALIFORNIA COAST...THAT EJECTS SHORTWAVE ENERGY EASTBOUND...ALONG WITH A ROTUND 600 H5 PACIFIC HIGH. THE FORECAST PERIOD STARTS OUT WITH THE GEM...UKMET...GFS AND ECMWF IN GOOD AGREEMENT. HOWEVER..BY F90...THE SOLUTIONS BEGIN TO DIVERGE OVER BRITISH COLUMBIA AND THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST...AND THE GFS LOOKS TO BE OVERLY PROGRESSIVE WITH CLOSED LOW IN THE CANADIAN PRAIRIE. WHILE THIS MAY NOT OVERTLY IMPACT THE SENSIBLE WEATHER OVER THE LKN CWA...IT CERTAINLY MAKES THE GFS LOOK SPECIOUS PAST F90. HEDGED TOWARDS THE ECMWF. LATEST RUN OF THE ECMWF HINTS TOWARDS THE POSSIBILITY OF ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE LKN CWA SATURDAY EVENING AND SUNDAY AFTERNOON...WITH PWS RANGING FROM .50 TO .80 OF AN INCH. ANY CONVECTION THAT DEVELOPS WILL BE ELEVATED WITH BASES AT 500MB...CAPABLE OF PRODUCING OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES OF 40 KNOTS. BY MONDAY...DRY AND STABLE NORTHWEST FLOW WILL SET UP OVER THE SILVER STATE...AS A PACIFIC RIDGE EDGES ITS WAY TOWARDS THE GREAT BASIN...WHICH WILL INHIBIT CONVECTION. && .AVIATION...VFR CONDITIONS EXPECTED OVER THE ENSUING 24HR PERIOD FOR ALL TAF SITES...WITH ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS AFTER 18Z AND EXPECTED UNTIL 03Z. ERRATIC WINDS AND GUSTY OUTFLOWS ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS. && .FIRE WEATHER...LATEST MODEL GUIDANCE HAS INCREASED THE LIKELIHOOD OF SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS 469 AND 470 TODAY. ALTHOUGH IT APPEARS THESE STORMS WILL BE MOSTLY WET...SOME STORMS MAY BE DRY ALONG THE SOUTHERN PARTS OF 469 AND 470. THE WHOLE FORECAST AREA HAS BEEN AVERAGING ROUND 30-40 STRIKES PER DAY OVER THE LAST FEW DAYS. BELIEVE THERE WILL BE A SIGNIFICANT INCREASE OVER 469 AND 470 TODAY. LALS ARE 4 IN THIS AREA. DRY ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED FURTHER SOUTH OVER 455 AND 457 TODAY. MAINLY ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED FOR SATURDAY...WITH THE BEST CHANCE FOR ACTIVITY IN 455 AND 457. && .LKN WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && 88/97
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV 439 AM PDT FRI JUL 9 2010 NVZ013-030-035>037-101145- NORTHERN NYE COUNTY-HUMBOLDT COUNTY-WHITE PINE COUNTY- NORTHERN LANDER COUNTY AND NORTHERN EUREKA COUNTY- SOUTHERN LANDER COUNTY AND SOUTHERN EUREKA COUNTY- 439 AM PDT FRI JUL 9 2010 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF EAST CENTRAL NEVADA...NORTH CENTRAL NEVADA...NORTHWEST NEVADA AND SOUTH CENTRAL NEVADA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED ACROSS THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. STRONG GUSTY WINDS MAY ACCOMPANY THE STRONGER STORMS TODAY. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. NO SIGNIFICANT WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS ARE ASKED TO REPORT WEATHER PHENOMENA ACCORDING TO STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURE. NVZ031>034-101145- NORTHERN ELKO COUNTY-SOUTHWEST AND SOUTH CENTRAL ELKO COUNTY- EXTREME EASTERN ELKO COUNTY-RUBY MOUNTAINS/EAST HUMBOLDT RANGE- 439 AM PDT FRI JUL 9 2010 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHEAST NEVADA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED ACROSS ELKO COUNTY THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. SOME OF THE STORMS MAY BE STRONG WITH SMALL HAIL AND HEAVY RAIN POSSIBLE. HOWEVER...DAMAGING WIND WILL BE THE PRIMARY THREAT FROM THE STRONGEST STORMS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. NO SIGNIFICANT WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS ARE ASKED TO REPORT WEATHER PHENOMENA ACCORDING TO STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURE.
The Elko radar (KLRX), 131 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:28 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Thunderstorm winds gusted to 61 mph at the Ruby Valley RAWS and 59 mph at both the Wells Moor Grade Mesonet site and the HD Summit Mesonet site.
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