A strong cold front brought wind gusts up to 87 mph across northern Nevada.
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The episode as NWS LKN wrote it up.
A strong cold front brought wind gusts up to 87 mph across northern 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 17, 2:47 AM PST, 1 hour 43 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV 347 AM PDT MON MAR 17 2014 .SYNOPSIS...WINDY TODAY WITH AREAS OF BLOWING DUST INTO THIS EVENING. MAY SEE A FEW LIGHT RAIN OR SNOW SHOWERS ACROSS HUMBOLDT AND ELKO COUNTIES THIS MORNING...OTHERWISE DRY CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED THROUGH THE COMING WEEK. && .SHORT TERM...TODAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. SOUTHWESTERLY WINDS ARE INCREASING EARLY THIS MORNING IN ADVANCE OF A COLD FRONT WHICH IS APPROACHING FROM THE NORTHWEST. WINDS WILL BECOME NORTHWESTERLY POST-FRONTAL LATER THIS MORNING AND AFTERNOON AND REMAIN STRONG INTO THE EARLY TO MID-EVENING HOURS. THE PASSING FRONT IS RELATIVELY DRY...AND AS SUCH MOST AREAS WILL NOT SEE ANY PRECIPITATION. THE EXCEPTION WILL BE PORTIONS OF HUMBOLDT AND ELKO COUNTIES WHERE LIGHT RAIN OR SNOW SHOWERS WILL BE POSSIBLE THROUGH THE MORNING HOURS...GENERALLY ALONG AND JUST BEHIND THE FRONTAL BOUNDARY. MOST SNOW SHOWERS WILL BE ACROSS MOUNTAINOUS AREAS. IT IS POSSIBLE FOR A FEW LIGHT SNOW SHOWERS IN VALLEY LOCATIONS ACROSS NORTHERN NEVADA THIS MORNING...HOWEVER NOT EXPECTING ANY ACCUMULATION OF SNOW DUE TO THE WARM SURFACE TEMPERATURES. WIND ADVISORIES ARE IN EFFECT FOR MOST OF THE REGION TODAY...WITH A HIGH WIND WARNING IN EFFECT ACROSS NORTHERN AND EASTERN ELKO COUNTY THROUGH THIS EVENING. ALONG WITH THE STRONG WINDS TODAY...SOME AREAS MAY SEE SOME BLOWING DUST WITH VISIBILITIES BEING REDUCED DOWN TO 1 OR 2 MILES. WINDS WILL SUBSIDE LATE THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS NW NEVADA...LINGERING INTO THE EARLY TO MID- EVENING HOURS ACROSS EAST-CENTRAL NEVADA. SKIES SCATTER OR CLEAR OUT TONIGHT WITH TEMPERATURES DROPPING BELOW NORMAL LEVELS...WHICH WILL BE WELL BELOW THE RECENT ABOVE NORMAL TEMPERATURES OF THE PAST FEW DAYS. TEMPERATURES REBOUND BACK TO NEAR OR SLIGHTLY ABOVE NORMAL LEVELS WEDNESDAY. .LONG TERM...WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY. MODELS HAVE TRENDED FURTHER NORTH WITH SHORT WAVE ON THURSDAY AND NOW KEEP IT DRY OVER NV. TRIMMED BACK THE SCANT POPS THAT WE HAD OVER NRN ELKO COUNTY EVEN MORE AND NOW SHOW ONLY A SLIGHT CHANCE OF SHOWERS OVER THE JARBIDGE MOUNTAINS. VERY WEAK SHORT WAVE MOVES ACROSS NV FRIDAY NIGHT AND EARLY SATURDAY AND ECMWF MODELS SPITS OUT A FEW AREAS OF VERY LIGHT PRECIPITATION BUT GFS KEEPS IT DRY. DID NOT MAKE ANY CHANGES TO OUR CURRENT DRY FORECAST DUE TO MODEL UNCERTAINTY. && .AVIATION...A STRONG COLD FRONT WILL RACE ACROSS NRN AND CNTRL NV THIS MORNING. THIS WILL BRING STRONG GUSTY WINDS TO ALL TERMINALS WITH GUSTS OVER 40 KTS POSSIBLE. && .LKN WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... HIGH WIND WARNING UNTIL 8 PM PDT THIS EVENING FOR NORTHERN ELKO COUNTY...RUBY MOUNTAINS/EAST HUMBOLDT RANGE...SOUTH CENTRAL ELKO COUNTY...SOUTHEASTERN ELKO COUNTY. WIND ADVISORY UNTIL 8 PM PDT THIS EVENING FOR HUMBOLDT COUNTY... NORTHERN LANDER COUNTY AND NORTHERN EUREKA COUNTY...SOUTHERN LANDER COUNTY AND SOUTHERN EUREKA COUNTY...SOUTHWESTERN ELKO COUNTY. WIND ADVISORY FROM 10 AM THIS MORNING TO 8 PM PDT THIS EVENING FOR NORTHEASTERN NYE COUNTY...NORTHWESTERN NYE COUNTY...WHITE PINE COUNTY. && 96/91/91
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV 213 PM PDT SUN MAR 16 2014 NVZ030-031-033>041-172115- HUMBOLDT COUNTY-NORTHERN ELKO COUNTY-SOUTHEASTERN ELKO COUNTY- RUBY MOUNTAINS/EAST HUMBOLDT RANGE-WHITE PINE COUNTY- NORTHERN LANDER COUNTY AND NORTHERN EUREKA COUNTY- SOUTHERN LANDER COUNTY AND SOUTHERN EUREKA COUNTY- SOUTHWESTERN ELKO COUNTY-SOUTH CENTRAL ELKO COUNTY- NORTHWESTERN NYE COUNTY-NORTHEASTERN NYE COUNTY- 213 PM PDT SUN MAR 16 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF EAST CENTRAL NEVADA...NORTH CENTRAL NEVADA...NORTHEAST NEVADA...NORTHWEST NEVADA AND SOUTH CENTRAL NEVADA. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. NO SIGNIFICANT WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. A PACIFIC STORM SYSTEM WILL BRING STRONG WINDS TO NORTHERN NEVADA. A HIGH WIND WARNING AND WIND ADVISORIES HAVE BEEN ISSUED...FOR MORE DETAILS ON THE LOCATIONS AND IMPACTS...PLEASE SEE RNONPWLKN. .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 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
A wind gust of 63 mph was observed at the Stag Mountain RAWS, 62 mph at the Long Hollow RAWS, and 58 mph at the O'Neil NDOT mesonet site.
A wind gust of 87 mph was observed at the Ruby Valley NDOT mesonet site, 78 mph at the Pequop Summit NDOT mesonet site, 72 mph at the Warm Springs NDOT mesonet site, and 62 mph at the Wells/Moor Grade NDOT site.
A wind gust to 64 mph was observed at the Pilot Peak NDOT mesonet site, and a gust to 63 mph at the Spring Gulch RAWS.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Nevada in 2014Every state in 2014This day in weather historyWarnings in Nevada, March 2014
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 497593, 497595, 497597.