A band of heavy snow set up across portions of southwestern Elko county. Six to ten inches of snow fell in Spring Creek while many SNOTEL sites in the Ruby Mountains received between 8 and 15 inches with one report of 22 inches.
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The episode as NWS LKN wrote it up.
A band of heavy snow set up across portions of southwestern Elko county. Six to ten inches of snow fell in Spring Creek while many SNOTEL sites in the Ruby Mountains received between 8 and 15 inches with one report of 22 inches.
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 Nov 15, 2:47 PM PST, 7 hours 13 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV 247 PM PST SUN NOV 15 2015 .SYNOPSIS...A PACIFIC STORM WILL IMPACT THE AREA TONIGHT THROUGH MONDAY WITH SNOW AND BLOWING SNOW. THE STORM WILL PRODUCE 1 TO 3 INCHES OF SNOW ACROSS MOST OF THE AREA WHICH WILL IMPACT THE MONDAY MORNING COMMUTE. TRAVEL WILL BE IMPACTED BY AREAS OF BLOWING SNOW THROUGH MONDAY AFTERNOON. STRONG NORTHWEST WINDS WILL MAKE FOR A COLD MONDAY WITH HIGHS IN THE UPPER 20S AND LOW 30S WITH WIND CHILLS IN THE TEENS. TEMPERATURES WILL SLOWLY MODERATE INTO THE 40S BY MID-WEEK WITH CHANCES OF RAIN AND SNOW MAINLY NORTH OF INTERSTATE 80 TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY. && .SHORT TERM...TONIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY. SATELLITE CURRENTLY SHOWING MID LEVEL CLOUDS SPREADING ACROSS THE AREA AND RADAR SHOWING ECHOES ACROSS WESTERN NEVADA WITH RH'S INCREASING SO EXPECT PRECIPITATION TO BEGIN NEAR WINNEMUCCA BY LATE THIS AFTERNOON SPREADING EAST TOWARDS ELKO THIS EVENING. LATEST GUIDANCE SHOWING FRONT MOVING INTO ELKO AND EUREKA COUNTIES NEAR MIDNIGHT AND QUICKLY MOVING EAST. HEAVIEST SNOW SHOULD OCCUR ALONG THE COLD FRONT WHERE A QUICK 1 TO 3 INCHES OF SNOW WILL FALL...THIS WILL MAINLY OCCUR BETWEEN 10 PM AND 4 AM ACROSS MOST OF THE FORECAST AREA. BY MONDAY MORNING THE 500MB TROUGH IS MOVING EAST INTO UTAH...SO ISOLATED SNOW SHOWERS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH MONDAY AFTERNOON AND FAVOR THE NORTHWEST FACING SLOPES AND UPSLOPE PRONE AREAS LIKE AUSTIN...WILDHORSE AND SPRING CREEK. WINDS WILL BEGIN TO INCREASE AFTER MIDNIGHT GUSTING FROM 35 TO 50 MPH ACROSS THE AREA WITH AREAS OF BLOWING SNOW BECOMING AN ISSUE THROUGH MONDAY AFTERNOON. TUESDAY...A FAIRLY COLD MORNING MAINLY ACROSS CENTRAL NEVADA WHERE MORE CLEARING WILL OCCUR WITH TEMPERATURES A BIT WARMER ACROSS NORTHERN NEVADA DUE TO CLOUD COVER BUT WILL STILL BE IN THE UPPER TEENS AND 20S. ISENTROPIC LIFT AND WARM AIR ADVECTION WILL KEEP THE NORTHERN HALF OF THE FORECAST AREA CLOUDY WITH AREAS OF LIGHT SNOW MAINLY NORTH OF INTERSTATE 80...ACCUMULATIONS SHOULD BE LIGHT BUT 1 TO 3 INCHES POSSIBLE ACROSS NORTHERN ELKO COUNTY. WEDNESDAY...ISENTROPIC LIFT WILL CONTINUE BUT WILL NOT BE AS STRONG AS WARM AIR ADVECTION BEGINS TO WEAKEN A BIT...HOWEVER AREAS OF SNOW STILL POSSIBLE MAINLY NORTH OF INTERSTATE 80 WITH ACCUMULATIONS UP TO ONE INCH POSSIBLE MAINLY IN NORTHERN ELKO COUNTY. TEMPERATURES WILL MODERATE TO SLIGHTLY BELOW NORMAL VALUES. .LONG TERM...WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH NEXT SUNDAY. NORTHWEST FLOW WILL DOMINATE WITH BELOW NORMAL TEMPERATURES FOR NORTHERN AND CENTRAL NEVADA THROUGH THE LONG TERM. DETERMINISTIC MODEL GUIDANCE IN SOMEWHAT AGREEMENT THURSDAY NIGHT INTO POSSIBLY MIDDAY FRIDAY...THEN SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCES UNFOLD. BOTH THE GFS/ECMWF COMMENCE WITH A WEAK SHORT WAVE RIDGE OVER THE GREAT BASIN...THEN THE GFS AND ITS ENSEMBLE MEAN GUIDANCE REFLECT A TROUGH MOVING THROUGH THE GREAT BASIN LATE IN THE WEEK. NORTH TO NORTHWEST UPSLOPE FLOW WILL KEEP ISOLATED TO SCATTERED RAIN/SNOW SHOWERS OVER NORTHERN NEVADA...HOWEVER AS THE TROUGH TRANSITIONS SOUTH SO WILL THE RAIN/SNOW SHOWER ACTIVITY DURING FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT. AT THIS POINT...WILL CONTINUE TO FAVOR THE GFS AND ENSEMBLE MEAN PATTERN WITH DRY CONDITIONS FOR NEXT WEEKEND. && .AVIATION...CIGS RAPIDLY LOWERING IN ADVANCE OF STRONG COLD FRONT THROUGH THIS EVENING. MVFR/IFR CONDITIONS ALONG/IN WAKE OF FROPA WITH A PERIOD OF SNOW POSSIBLY MODERATE FOR AN HOUR OR TWO WITH FROPA. STRONG NORTH TO NORTHWEST SFC/LOW LEVEL FLOW KEEPING SNOW SHOWERS/BLOWING SNOW AT TERMINAL FORECASTS UNTIL 11/17 00Z. && .LKN WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY FROM 7 PM THIS EVENING TO 4 PM PST MONDAY FOR NORTHERN ELKO COUNTY-NORTHERN LANDER COUNTY AND NORTHERN EUREKA COUNTY-NORTHWESTERN NYE COUNTY-SOUTH CENTRAL ELKO COUNTY-SOUTHERN LANDER COUNTY AND SOUTHERN EUREKA COUNTY- SOUTHWEST ELKO COUNTY-WHITE PINE COUNTY. WIND ADVISORY FROM 4 AM TO 7 PM PST MONDAY FOR NORTHEASTERN NYE COUNTY-SOUTHEASTERN ELKO COUNTY. && 90/89/89
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
2 heavy snow. Local standard time, as filed.
Many SNOTEL sites received between 8 and 15 inches of snow with a report from the public in Conrad Creek at an elevation of 9200 feet of 22 inches of new snow.
Between 6 and 10 inches of snow was reported in Spring Creek with the higher amounts closest to the Ruby Mountains.
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