Winds gusted up to 65 mph across south central Elko county.
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Winds gusted up to 65 mph across south central 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 Mar 17, 2:05 AM PST, 7 hours 55 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV 305 AM PDT SUN MAR 17 2013 .SYNOPSIS...A COLD FRONT WILL CLIP THE GREAT BASIN TODAY BRINGING STRONG WINDS...ESPECIALLY ACROSS NORTHEAST ELKO COUNTY. THE MOUNTAINS OF NORTHERN ELKO COUNTY COULD ALSO PICK UP A FEW INCHES OF SNOW BEFORE THE SYSTEM EXITS QUICKLY LATE TODAY. ANOTHER SYSTEM WILL BEGIN TO SPREAD RAIN AND SNOW SHOWERS ACROSS MUCH OF NORTHERN AND EAST CENTRAL NEVADA BY LATE TUESDAY. && .SHORT TERM...IR IMAGERY THIS MORNING IS SHOWING CLOUD STREETS INDICATIVE OF STRONG WINDS ALOFT ORTHOGONAL TO THE MOUNTAINS OF NORTHERN NEVADA. A CLIPPER SYSTEM IS MOVING THROUGH THE GREAT BASIN AT THIS TIME BRINGING WIND GUSTS IN THE 30S WIDESPREAD WITH A FEW SITES TOUCHING 40 MPH. WHILE THE COLDER CLOUD FIELD HAS EXITED THE STATE THERE IS ANOTHER CLOUD FIELD ASSOCIATED WITH THE NEXT SHORTWAVE MOVING SOUTHWEST THROUGH OREGON AT THIS TIME. LIGHT PRECIPITATION SEEMS TO BE CONFINED TO NORTHEAST NEVADA AS WELL AS POINTS NORTH AND EAST OF THE NV BORDER. TODAY. WITH THE SUSTAINED NW FLOW ALOFT...AT LEAST TWO DISTINGUISHABLE SHORTWAVES WILL MOVE THROUGH THE FLOW...THUS ANY CLEARING THAT OCCURS BEHIND THE CURRENT WAVE WILL BE SHORT-LIVED. WINDS WILL BE STRONGEST OVER NE NEVADA WHERE WIND ADVISORIES ARE IN EFFECT FOR ZONES 31...NORTHERN ELKO COUNTY AND 33...EXTREME EASTERN ELKO COUNTY. BREEZY CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED ELSEWHERE. THE CULPRIT...A PAIR OF 100KT+ JET CORES IN A SPLIT FLOW ALOFT WILL BE MERGING OVER NE NEVADA LATE TODAY. WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH ARE POSSIBLE OVER EXTREME NE ELKO COUNTY HOWEVER WINDS THIS STRONG WILL NOT BE REPRESENTATIVE OF THE ENTIRE ZONE. THERE IS A POSSIBILITY THAT ZONE 39 EAST OF THE RUBY MOUNTAINS MAY DRIFT INTO WIND ADVISORY TERRITORY BUT WILL MONITOR THE SITUATION. THE JARBIDGE WILDERNESS COULD ACCUMULATE UP TO AN INCH OF SNOW AS THIS SYSTEM FINISHES MOVING THROUGH HOWEVER WINDS WILL WORK OVER THE REMAINING PRECIPITATION...RENDERING NO TRAVEL ISSUES DUE TO PRECIPITATION. HOWEVER STRONG CROSS WINDS WILL BE AN ISSUE ALONG HIGHWAY 93 AND INTERSTATE 80 EAST OF ELKO. HIGH TEMPERATURES WILL GENERALLY RANGE FROM THE MID 40S TO THE MID 50S...30S ACROSS NORTHERN ELKO COUNTY. TONIGHT THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT. DRY CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED. HIGH PRESSURE WILL BRIEFLY MOVE OVER THE GREAT BASIN. A SUSTAINED NORTHERLY COMPONENT TO THE FLOW ALOFT WILL KEEP TEMPERATURES SUBDUED AS THE HIGH PROGRESSES THROUGH THE CWFA. LOWS TONIGHT WILL DIP HARSHLY BEHIND THE CURRENT LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM THEN MODERATE A FEW DEGREES BY MONDAY NIGHT AS THE NORTHERLY FLOW DISSOLVES AND CLOUDS INCREASE AHEAD OF THE NEXT SYSTEM. LOWS WILL GENERALLY RANGE FROM THE TEENS TO THE 20S WITH SOME ISOLATED SPOTS DIPPING INTO THE SINGLE DIGITS. HIGH TEMPERATURES WILL RANGE FROM THE MID 40S TO THE MID 50S. TUESDAY. SHOWERS MAY BEGIN OVER FAR WESTERN HUMBOLDT COUNTY IN THE MORNING THEN SPREAD EASTWARD AS FAR AS BATTLE MOUNTAIN AND WILDHORSE DURING THE DAY. A SMALL CHANCE FOR VALLEY RAIN SHOWERS AND MOUNTAIN SNOW SHOWERS WILL BE THE CALL AS TEMPERATURES RISE THROUGH THE 50S DUE TO A MILD SOUTHWEST FLOW. HIGH TEMPERATURES WILL BE IN THE 50S. .LONG TERM...TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH NEXT SATURDAY. THE LONG RANGE MODELS ARE IN EXCELLENT AGREEMENT WITH REGARD TO HANDLING THE NEXT STRONG SHORT WAVE MOVING INTO THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST. ABUNDANT MOISTURE WILL SURGE INTO THE GREAT BASIN IN ADVANCE OF THIS SYSTEM RESULTING OF PERIODS OF RAIN FOR THE VALLEYS OF NORTHERN AND CENTRAL NEVADA WHILE SOME SNOW WILL ACCUMULATE ABOVE THE 7000 FOOT LEVEL DURING WEDNESDAY. A STRONG COLD FRONT WILL MOVE SOUTH OF THE REGION WEDNESDAY EVENING ALLOWING SNOW LEVELS TO LOWER TO THE VALLEY FLOORS PRIOR TO THE PRECIPITATION ENDING THURSDAY MORNING. WITH THE PROGRESSIVE NATURE OF THE SYSTEM...ANY LINGERING SNOW SHOWERS WILL END WITH A DRIER NORTHERN FLOW TAKING OVER DURING THE DAY THURSDAY. ALTHOUGH THURSDAY WILL BE A CHILLY DAY...A STRONG RIDGE OF HIGH PRESSURE WILL BUILD INTO THE GREAT BASIN RESULTING IN ABOVE NORMAL TEMPERATURES FOR NEXT WEEKEND. && .AVIATION...VFR CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED DURING THE NEXT 24 HOURS. THE MAIN CONCERN WILL BE A STRONG NORTHWEST FLOW OF 15 TO 25 KTS WITH GUSTS UP TO 50 KTS ESPECIALLY OVER THE HIGHER TERRAIN OF NORTHEAST NEVADA AFTER 18Z TODAY. EXPECT WINDS TO DIMINISH BY 03Z/MONDAY. && .LKN WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... WIND ADVISORY UNTIL 7 PM PDT THIS EVENING FOR NORTHERN ELKO COUNTY...SOUTHEASTERN ELKO COUNTY. WIND ADVISORY UNTIL 7 PM PDT THIS EVENING FOR SOUTH CENTRAL ELKO COUNTY. && 92/89/89
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
A wind gust to 65 mph was observed at the Warm Springs NDOT mesonet site and a gust to 58 mph was recorded at the Pequop Summit NDOT mesonet site.
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