Strong downslope winds occurred on the lee side of the Ruby Mountains and East Humboldt Range with gusts to 78 mph recorded.
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Strong downslope winds occurred on the lee side of the Ruby Mountains and East Humboldt Range with gusts to 78 mph recorded.
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 May 11, 7:34 AM PST, 26 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV 834 AM PDT TUE MAY 11 2010 .SYNOPSIS...AN AREA OF LOW PRESSURE WILL BRING RAIN...SNOW...AND GUSTY WINDS TO NEVADA TODAY. THE HEAVIEST PRECIPITATION IS EXPECTED TO FALL ACROSS ELKO AND WHITE PINE COUNTIES. RAIN AND SNOW SHOWERS WILL LINGER INTO WEDNESDAY...BEFORE DRIER AND WARMER WEATHER RETURNS BY THE END OF THE WEEK. && .UPDATE...WITH COLD AIRMASS REMAINING OVER THE CWA TODAY...HAVE LOWERED DAYTIME MAXIMUM TEMPERATURES ACROSS THE ENTIRE AREA 3 TO 7 DEGREES. HAVE BUMPED POPS OVER THE EASTERN ZONES AS WRAP AROUND MOISTURE CONTINUES TO ROTATE FROM UPPER LOW LOCATED OVER UTAH THIS MORNING. && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED AT 318 AM / .SHORT TERM...TUESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. STRONG SURFACE LOW HAS DEVELOPED OVER SALT LAKE CITY...WITH UPPER LEVEL LOW PROGRESSING ACROSS SOUTHERN NV THIS MORNING. STRONG DEFORMATION ZONE HAS FORMED ACROSS EASTERN NV...WITH STRONG 700-500MB FGEN FORCING ON THE NORTHWESTERN SIDE OF DEEPENING SURFACE AND 700MB LOW. MID- LEVEL 500MB TROUGH WILL BECOME VERTICALLY STACKED WITH THE LOW LEVEL CIRCULATION THIS MORNING. THIS WILL CAUSE FOR A LONGER RESIDENCE TIME OF DEEP 700-400MB MOISTURE BACKING INTO NORTHEASTERN NV THROUGH 06Z TONIGHT. THE HEAVIEST PRECIP BAND WILL LIFT OUT OF WHITE PINE THIS MORNING...AND SHIFT TO ELKO COUNTY DUE TO A RAPIDLY DEEPENING 700MB LOW OVER NORTHERN UT. FEEL LOCALIZED HEAVY SNOW COULD FALL ABOVE 6500FT TODAY ACROSS THE WESTERN FACING SLOPES OF ELKO COUNTY MOUNTAIN RANGES...ESPECIALLY THE JARBIDGE...AND RUBY MOUNTAIN RANGES. BELOW 6500FT SNOW WILL BEGIN TO MIX WITH RAIN AFT 10AM AS THE LOW LEVELS WARM DUE TO THE STRONG MAY SOLAR RADIATION. THIS WILL LIMIT ACCUMULATIONS ON THE VALLEY FLOORS TODAY...BUT STILL A GOOD SOAKING RAIN IS EXPECTED. ANOTHER WX ISSUE TODAY IS THE GUSTY NW WINDS ACROSS THE REGION DUE TO A VERY STRONG SURFACE PRESSURE GRADIENT WITH THE 997MB LOW OVER UTAH. WIND ADVISORIES HAVE BEEN POSTED FOR THE FAVORABLE NW DOWNSLOPE REGIONS OF NORTHERN NYE...AND ELKO COUNTY. STRONG WINDS WILL ALSO OCCUR OVER NORTHERN ELKO COUNTY WITH 700MB WINDS REACHING 40-45KTS BY AFTERNOON. TONIGHT RAIN AND SNOW SHOWERS WILL LINGER ACROSS EASTERN NV...BUT THE WIDESPREAD ACCUMULATING SNOW WILL COME TO AND END...AS THE AIRMASS MODERATES AND THE SURFACE LOW SLOWLY WEAKENS AND DRIFTS TO THE EAST. DAYTIME INSTABILITY SHOWERS WILL DEVELOP ON WEDNESDAY...WITH MOSTLY DRY CONDITIONS EXPECTED BY THURSDAY. LONG TERM...THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH NEXT MONDAY. MODELS ARE IN FAIRLY GOOD AGREEMENT WITH THE OVERALL PATTERN THROUGH THE PERIOD. SPLIT FLOW OVER THE FCST AREA THURSDAY NIGHT INTO SATURDAY WITH LIMITED MOISTURE FOR DRY CONDITIONS. RIDGE BUILDS OVER NEVADA ON SUNDAY FOR ABOVE NORMAL TEMPERATURES WITH READING IN THE MID 70S TO THE LOWER 80S. UPPER TROUGH IN THE ERN PACIFIC TO MOVE ONTO WEST COAST ON MONDAY. LOOKS LIKE ENOUGH MOISTURE AND INSTABILITY TO WARRANT A SLIGHT CHANCE OF TSTMS OVER THE FAR NRN MTNS...ESPECIALLY IF THE STRONGER ECMWF SOLUTIONS IS CORRECT. .AVIATION...UPPER LOW CENTERED NEAR TONOPAH PRODUCING IFR OR LOWER CONDITIONS IN SNOW AND LOW CIGS ACROSS PORTIONS OF CNTRL AND NRN NV EARLY THIS MORNING. AS UPPER LOW MOVES SEWD TODAY MAIN IMPACTS BY THIS AFTN WILL BE ACROSS ERN NV IN WRAP AROUND MOISTURE PRIMARILY AFFECTING THE KELY AND KEKO TERMINALS WHERE PERIODS OF IFR OR LOWER CONDITIONS ARE LIKELY. CONDITIONS WILL SLOWLY IMPROVE THIS EVENING AS UPPER LOW CONTINUES TO MOVE OUT OF THE AREA. && .LKN WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY UNTIL 5 PM PDT THIS AFTERNOON ABOVE 6000 FEET FOR NORTHERN ELKO COUNTY. WIND ADVISORY UNTIL 5 PM PDT THIS AFTERNOON FOR EXTREME EASTERN ELKO COUNTY...NORTHERN ELKO COUNTY. WIND ADVISORY UNTIL 5 PM PDT THIS AFTERNOON FOR THE EASTERN SLOPES OF THE RUBY MOUNTAINS/EAST HUMBOLDT RANGE IN THE RUBY MOUNTAINS/EAST HUMBOLDT RANGE...SOUTHWEST AND SOUTH CENTRAL ELKO COUNTY. WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY UNTIL 11 AM PDT THIS MORNING ABOVE 6000 FEET FOR WHITE PINE COUNTY. WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY UNTIL 5 PM PDT THIS AFTERNOON FOR RUBY MOUNTAINS/EAST HUMBOLDT RANGE. WIND ADVISORY UNTIL 5 PM PDT THIS AFTERNOON FOR NORTHERN NYE COUNTY. && 99/99
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV 335 AM PDT TUE MAY 11 2010 NVZ013-030>037-121045- 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- 335 AM PDT TUE MAY 11 2010 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF EAST CENTRAL NEVADA...NORTH CENTRAL NEVADA...NORTHEAST NEVADA...NORTHWEST NEVADA AND SOUTH CENTRAL NEVADA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. A COLD MOIST PACIFIC STORM SYSTEM WILL SLOWLY MOVE ACROSS THE GREAT BASIN TODAY. THIS SYSTEM WILL BRING WIDESPREAD RAIN AND SNOW ACROSS EASTERN NEVADA...WITH SCATTERED SHOWERS EXPECTED ACROSS THE THE REMAINDER OF NORTHERN AND CENTRAL NEVADA. LOCALIZED HEAVY SNOW IS EXPECTED ACROSS THE MOUNTAINS OF ELKO AND WHITE PINE COUNTIES...WITH A RAIN AND SNOW MIX BELOW 6000 FEET TODAY. OVERALL ROAD IMPACTS WILL BE LIMITED DUE TO THE HIGHEST MOUNTAIN PASSES...WHERE SLUSH COULD ACCUMULATE ON PAVES SURFACES. WIDESPREAD SNOW AND RAIN WILL TAPER OFF TO SHOWERS BY LATE EVENING. GUSTY NORTHWEST WINDS WILL DEVELOP THIS MORNING ACROSS THE OUTLOOK AREA...WITH THE STRONGEST WINDS EXPECTED ACROSS NORTHERN NYE...AND ELKO COUNTIES. SUSTAINED WINDS OF 25 TO 35 MPH...WITH MAX GUSTS TO 50 MPH COULD BE POSSIBLE IN THESE AREAS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY. RAIN AND SNOW SHOWERS WILL LINGER ACROSS EASTERN NEVADA INTO WEDNESDAY...WITH ONLY ISOLATED SHOWERS EXPECTED ACROSS HUMBOLDT COUNTY. TEMPERATURES WILL REBOUND TO AVERAGE BY THURSDAY WITH A DRYING TREND ACROSS THE GREAT BASIN. .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 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
A gust of 78 mph was recorded at the Ruby Valley RAWS and a gust to 66 mph at the Ruby Lake RAWS.
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