A winter storm produced 6 to 12 inches of snow across portions of northern and central Nevada.
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The episode as NWS LKN wrote it up.
A winter storm produced 6 to 12 inches of snow across portions of northern and central Nevada.
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 Mar 3, 2:32 PM PST, 2 hours 58 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV 232 PM PST WED MAR 3 2010 .SYNOPSIS...A STRONG STORM SYSTEM WILL MOVE INTO NORTHERN AND CENTRAL NEVADA LATE TONIGHT AND REMAIN OVER THE AREA THROUGH THURSDAY. ANOTHER STORM SYSTEM WILL BRING A THREAT OF SHOWERS TO MAINLY CENTRAL NEVADA OVER THE WEEKEND. && .SHORT TERM...TONIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY. A STRONG UPPER LOW OFF THE NRN CA COAST TODAY WILL MOVE INTO NRN AND CNTRL NV OVERNIGHT. MODELS ARE CONSISTENT WITH SHOWING IMPRESSIVE DYNAMICS FROM FAR ERN HUMBOLDT COUNTY EWD INTO NWRN ELKO COUNTY AND SWD INTO NRN NYE COUNTY. SNOW AMOUNTS IN THIS AREA STILL LOOK 5 TO 8 INCHES OF SNOW FOR THE VALLEYS WITH HIGHER AMOUNTS IN THE MTNS. WINTER STORM WARNINGS REMAIN IN EFFECT FOR LANDER/EUREKA AND NRN NYE COUNTIES AND NRN ELKO COUNTY. DYNAMICS WEAKER ELKO EASTWARD TONIGHT...BUT ENOUGH LOW LEVEL CONVERGENCE AND MOISTURE IN THIS AREA TO KEEP WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY FOR MOST OF SOUTHERN ELKO COUNTY AND HUMBOLDT COUNTY. HIGH PRESSURE BUILDS ON FRIDAY ALLOWING DRIER WEATHER INTO CWA...BUT STILL MOSTLY CLOUDY AS RIDGE IS DIRTY. NEXT UPSTREAM TROF DIGS IN SOUTHERN CA SATURDAY WITH MAIN DYNAMICS SOUTH OF THE CWA. STILL EXPECT WRAP AROUND MOISTURE TO PRODUCE A SHOWERS...MAINLY SOUTHERN ZONES. .LONG TERM...SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH NEXT WEDNESDAY. MEDIUM RANGE MODELS SHOW ANOTHER PACIFIC STORM SYSTEM MOVING SOUTH OF OUR AREA SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY. HOWEVER...THE ECMWF SEEMS TO BE ABOUT 12 HRS SLOWER AND 300 MILES FARTHER SOUTH THAN THE GFS AND 12 GFS ENSEMBLE MEAN. NO MATTER WHICH TRACK PLAYS OUT...IT APPEARS THAT THIS SYSTEM WILL HAVE MINIMAL IMPACTS ON OUR CWA WITH THE BEST CHANCE OF PRECIP BEING ALONG AND SOUTH OF HIGHWAY 50. IF THE MORE NORTHERN TRACK IS RIGHT...THEN WILL SEE A FEW INCHES OF SNOW OVER CENTRAL NV WITH RAIN AND SNOW SHOWERS OVER NORTHERN NV. MODEL CONFIDENCE IS LOW BY MONDAY...SO MADE ONLY MINOR CHANGES TO THE FORECAST EARLY NEXT WEEK. THE PATTERN DOES LOOK TO STAY ACTIVE WITH THE POSSIBILITY OF 1-2 STORM SYSTEMS THROUGH WEDNESDAY. && .AVIATION...ACTIVE WEATHER EXPECTED OVER THE NEXT 24 HOURS AS A VIGOROUS STORM SYSTEM MOVES THROUGH THE AREA. A BAND OF RAIN IS BEGINNING TO WORK INTO NW NV ATTM WITH SOME EMBEDDED THUNDER AS WELL. THIS BAND WILL MOVE INTO KWMC BY 00Z THIS EVENING. PRECIP WILL SPREAD ACROSS THE REGION FROM WEST TO EAST TONIGHT AND THURSDAY MORNING. PRECIP WILL START AS RAIN THEN CHANGEOVER TO SNOW AT KWMC THIS EVENING AND COULD BE HEAVY BETWEEN 02Z-07Z WITH IFR...AND EVEN BRIEF LIFR CONDITIONS POSSIBLE. AS THE PRECIP SPREADS EAST...CONDITIONS WILL DETERIORATE AT KTPH EARLY THURSDAY MORNING...AND AT KELY AND KEKO BETWEEN 12-15Z THURSDAY. IFR CIGS/VSBYS ARE LIKELY WITH THIS PRECIP. AHEAD OF THIS SYSTEM BREEZY SOUTH WINDS WILL CONTINUE ACROSS CENTRAL NV INTO THE EVENING HOURS. && .LKN WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... WINTER STORM WARNING FROM 10 PM THIS EVENING TO 10 PM PST THURSDAY FOR NORTHERN ELKO COUNTY. WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY FROM 4 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 4 PM PST THURSDAY FOR HUMBOLDT COUNTY. WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY FROM 1 AM TO 10 PM PST THURSDAY FOR RUBY MOUNTAINS/EAST HUMBOLDT RANGE...SOUTHWEST AND SOUTH CENTRAL ELKO COUNTY. WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY FROM 1 AM TO 4 PM PST THURSDAY FOR WHITE PINE COUNTY. WINTER STORM WARNING FROM 7 PM THIS EVENING TO 4 PM PST THURSDAY FOR NORTHERN LANDER COUNTY AND NORTHERN EUREKA COUNTY...NORTHERN NYE COUNTY...SOUTHERN LANDER COUNTY AND SOUTHERN EUREKA COUNTY. && 87/99
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV 416 PM PST WED MAR 3 2010 NVZ013-030>037-050030- 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- 416 PM PST WED MAR 3 2010 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHERN AND CENTRAL NEVADA. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. A STRONG STORM SYSTEM WILL BRING SIGNIFICANT SNOWFALL TO MUCH OF THE AREA BEGINNING TONIGHT. WINTER STORM WARNINGS AND ADVISORIES HAVE BEEN POSTED. PLEASE SEE PRODUCT RNOWSWLKN FOR MORE DETAILS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. A STRONG WINTER STORM WILL CONTINUE TO IMPACT NORTHERN AND CENTRAL NEVADA THURSDAY WITH SIGNIFICANT SNOWFALL IN MANY AREAS. THE STORM WILL MOVE OUT OF THE REGION THURSDAY NIGHT. ANOTHER STORM SYSTEM MAY IMPACT THE REGION OVER THE WEEKEND. 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.
3 heavy snow. Local standard time, as filed.
Six inches of snow was reported at Winnemucca and Orovada, 9 inches at Granite Peak and Buckskin Lower (SNOTEL), 5 inches at McDermitt.
Nine to twelve inches of new snow was reported.
Seven inches of new snow was reported 8 miles east of Austin near Bob Scott Summit, 6 inches in Eureka and 10 inches at the Big Creek Summit SNOTEL.
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