A winter-like storm brought heavy snow to southern Lander and southern Eureka counties. SNOTEL sites reported between 10 and 13 inches of snow and a COOP observer in Eureka reported nearly 5 inches of snow.
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A winter-like storm brought heavy snow to southern Lander and southern Eureka counties. SNOTEL sites reported between 10 and 13 inches of snow and a COOP observer in Eureka reported nearly 5 inches of snow.
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 Apr 25, 5:37 PM PST, 3 hours 23 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV 637 PM PDT FRI APR 25 2014 .SYNOPSIS...A STRONG LATE WINTER STORM WILL BRING WIDESPREAD RAIN AND SNOW TO NEVADA TONIGHT AND SATURDAY MORNING. DRY WEATHER RETURNS BRIEFLY SATURDAY NIGHT...FOLLOWED BY MORE SNOW SHOWERS ACROSS NORTHERN NEVADA ON SUNDAY. DRIER AND WARMER WEATHER IS EXPECTED TO RETURN NEXT WEEK. && .UPDATE...ADDED A MENTION OF THUNDER THIS EVENING, ESPECIALLY SE ZONES. RADAR SHOWS CONVECTION WITH LIGHTNING IN NE NYE COUNTY, MOVING NE INTO WHITE PINE COUNTY. SPC MESOANALYSIS PLACES CAPE OF 200-500 J/KG ACROSS THIS REGION AS OF 6 PM, AND DIFFULENCE ALOFT WILL REMAIN STRONG INTO THIS EVENING AS UPPER LOW APPROACHES. TURNER && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED AT 331 PM / SYNOPSIS...A MOIST PACIFIC STORM SYSTEM WILL CONTINUE TO BRING WIDESPREAD RAIN AND SNOW TO THE SILVER STATE THROUGH SATURDAY MORNING. AFTER A BRIEF BREAK IN PRECIPITATION SATURDAY NIGHT...SNOW SHOWERS WILL RETURN TO THE REGION ON SUNDAY. A RETURN TO SPRING IS EXPECTED NEXT WEEK...WITH DRY AND WARM CONDITIONS EXPECTED. SHORT TERM...FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY. SOME NICE RAINFALL HAS FALLEN ACROSS PORTIONS OF THE CWA THUS FAR TODAY...WITH THE HIGHEST READINGS APPROACHING .7" SO FAR. SNOW LEVELS HAVE REMAINED ABOVE 6500FT SO FAR TODAY...BUT COLDER AIR ALOFT IS CURRENTLY WORKING INTO THE REGION...AS 700MB AND SURFACE FLOW HAS COME AROUND TO THE W/NW. COLDER AIR AND DYNAMIC COOLING DUE TO A POTENT 500MB TROUGH WILL CONTINUE TO LOWER SNOW LEVELS THIS EVENING ACROSS THE REGION. HAVE DECIDED TO KEEP HEADLINES AS IS...BUT WAS A LITTLE CONCERNED ABOUT SNOWFALL ACROSS THE TONOPAH AREA TONIGHT AS TEMPERATURES LOOK COLD ENOUGH. DO THINK THEY COULD GET SOME SNOW ACROSS NORTHERN NYE COUNTY...BUT METRO ROAD MODEL SHOULD THAT ROAD TEMPS WILL STAY ABOVE FREEZING...THUS DON'T THINK THERE WILL BE MUCH IN THE WAY OF IMPACTS. THE WARNINGS STILL LOOK GOOD...AS TEMPS WILL BE COLD ENOUGH TONIGHT FOR SNOW...HOW BIG THE IMPACTS WILL BE IS STILL THE CONCERN...BUT METRO MODEL HAS ALL THE PASSES ON U.S. HIGHWAY 50 GOING BELOW FREEZING TONIGHT. ALSO...SNOW ACCUMULATED ON I-80 TODAY ACROSS THE SIERRA...SO NO REASON WHY THAT WON'T HAPPEN ACROSS THE HIGHER PASSES DURING THE OVERNIGHT HOURS WITH NO SOLAR INSULATION. HEAVIEST SNOW WILL OCCUR FROM AUSTIN TO EUREKA TONIGHT...WITH WHITE PINE COUNTY NOT GETTING IN ON THE ACTION UNTIL AFTER MIDNIGHT...AS 700MB NW FLOW TAKES A LITTLE LONGER TO GET THERE. FURTHER NORTH AROUND THE RUBY MOUNTAIN COMMUNITIES THE FORECAST REMAINS A LITTLE MORE CHALLENGING. THINGS ARE GOING WELL AT THIS MOMENT...BUT HOW MUCH PRECIP WE GET AFTER SUNSET IS THE DIFFICULT QUESTION AND SNOWFALL ACCUMULATIONS. RIGHT NOW IT LOOKS LIKE UP-SLOPE COMPONENT FLOW SHOULD ALLOW SOME PARTS OF SPRING CREEK/LAMOILLE/JIGGS/LEE...TO RECEIVE SOME GOOD ACCUMULATING SNOW TONIGHT. STORM PULLS AWAY SATURDAY MORNING...WITH SNOW ENDING AT ELY LAST. BREAK IN THE ACTION IS EXPECTED ON SATURDAY NIGHT...ALLOWING A HARD FREEZE ACROSS ALL LOCATIONS EXCEPT WENDOVER. SUNDAY LOOKS TO BE A CONVECTIVE SNOW SHOWER DAY...WITH SOME GOOD GRAUPEL SNOW SQUALLS POSSIBLE AS THE NEW SNOW SQUALL INDEX IS SHOWING SOME HIGH VALUES. UNSETTLE WEATHER ENDS BY SUNDAY NIGHT...WITH COOL NORTHWEST FLOW AND JUST SOME FAIR WEATHER CUMULUS CLOUDS ON MONDAY. LONG TERM...MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY. THE PERIOD BEGINS WITH STRONG UPPER RIDGE BUILDING INTO THE REGION FOR DRY AND WARMER WEATHER. THE RIDGE WILL REACH ITS PEAK STRENGTH WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY THEN BEGIN TO FLATTEN ON FRIDAY. TEMPS WILL BEGIN THE PERIOD SLIGHTLY BELOW NORMAL WITH HIGHS IN THE MID 50S TO THE MID 60S BUT WILL END THE PERIOD MUCH ABOVE NORMAL WITH HIGHS GENERALLY IN THE UPPER 60S TO THE MID 70S. AVIATION...STORM SYSTEM WILL BRING WIDESPREAD SHOWERS THROUGH SATURDAY MORNING WITH AREAS OF MVFR CONDITIONS. RAIN IS EXPECTED TO TURN OVER TO SNOW AT KTPH AROUND 04Z, AT KELY AROUND 10Z, AND KEKO AROUND 12Z BRINGING IFR CONDITIONS. && .LKN WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... WINTER STORM WARNING UNTIL 11 AM PDT SATURDAY FOR RUBY MOUNTAINS/EAST HUMBOLDT RANGE...SOUTHERN LANDER COUNTY AND SOUTHERN EUREKA COUNTY...WHITE PINE COUNTY. WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY UNTIL 11 AM PDT SATURDAY FOR SOUTH CENTRAL ELKO COUNTY. WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY UNTIL 11 AM PDT SATURDAY ABOVE 5500 FEET FOR SOUTHWESTERN ELKO COUNTY. && 99/99
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV 1032 AM PDT FRI APR 25 2014 NVZ031-034-035-037>041-261745- NORTHERN ELKO COUNTY-RUBY MOUNTAINS/EAST HUMBOLDT RANGE- WHITE PINE COUNTY- SOUTHERN LANDER COUNTY AND SOUTHERN EUREKA COUNTY- SOUTHWESTERN ELKO COUNTY-SOUTH CENTRAL ELKO COUNTY- NORTHWESTERN NYE COUNTY-NORTHEASTERN NYE COUNTY- 1032 AM PDT FRI APR 25 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF EAST CENTRAL NEVADA...NORTH CENTRAL NEVADA...NORTHEAST NEVADA AND SOUTH CENTRAL NEVADA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. AN AREA OF LOW PRESSURE WILL RAPIDLY DEVELOP OVER CENTRAL NEVADA TODAY...ALLOWING RAINFALL TO BREAK OUT ACROSS THE REGION. BY FRIDAY EVENING COLDER AIR WILL BEGIN TO WORK IN ON THE BACKSIDE OF THE SYSTEM...ALLOWING THE RAIN TO CHANGE OVER TO SNOW FROM THE WEST TO EAST. THIS STORM WILL BE VERY ELEVATION DEPENDENT WITH NO IMPACTS EXPECTED BELOW 5500 FEET ELEVATIONS. ABOVE 5500 FEET SNOWFALL IS EXPECTED TO ACCUMULATE DURING THE OVERNIGHT HOURS AND INTO SATURDAY MORNING. THE LARGEST IMPACTS FROM THE SNOWFALL ARE EXPECTED ACROSS CENTRAL NEVADA FROM AUSTIN TO ELY...ESPECIALLY ABOVE 6000 FEET ELEVATIONS. RAIN WILL CHANGE OVER TO SNOW AT AUSTIN BY 6 PM...EUREKA BY 9PM...LAMOILLE BY 10PM...AND ELY BY 3AM. SNOWFALL WILL END FROM THE NORTHWEST TO SOUTHEAST...WITH IMPACTS EXPECTED TO DIMINISH BY SATURDAY MORNING...AS TEMPERATURES INCREASE ABOVE FREEZING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. SNOW WILL END SATURDAY MORNING...WITH ALL IMPACTS FROM THIS SYSTEM EXPECTED TO END BY NOON ON SATURDAY. SUNDAY CONVECTIVE SNOW SHOWERS WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS NORTHERN NEVADA. SOME OF THE STRONGER SNOW SQUALLS COULD TEMPORALLY LIMIT VISIBILITY DOWN TO A FEW HUNDRED FEET...IN ADDITION TO A FEW LIGHTNING STRIKES. .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.
Heavy snow was reported across southern Lander and southern Eureka counties. Reports included 13 inches at the Big Creek Summit SNOTEL, 10 inches at both the Diamond Peak and Vacarro SNOTEL sites, and nearly 5 inches in Eureka.
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