Heavy snow fell across southwestern Elko county and northern Lander and northern Eureka counties. Six to seven inches was reported at many valley locations.
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The episode as NWS LKN wrote it up.
Heavy snow fell across southwestern Elko county and northern Lander and northern Eureka counties. Six to seven inches was reported at many valley locations.
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 Jan 29, 3:13 PM PST, 5 hours 47 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV 313 PM PST FRI JAN 29 2016 .SYNOPSIS...VALLEY RAIN AND MOUNTAIN SNOW CONTINUE INTO THIS EVENING. SNOW LEVELS LOWER TO VALLEY FLOORS LATE THIS EVENING AND OVERNIGHT...WITH MODERATE SNOW ACCUMULATIONS EXPECTED SATURDAY. LIGHTER SNOW SATURDAY NIGHT INTO EARLY SUNDAY...BEFORE ANOTHER ROUND OF SNOW IMPACTS MUCH OF CENTRAL NEVADA SUNDAY AFTERNOON INTO MONDAY. && .SHORT TERM...THIS EVENING THROUGH MONDAY. WARMER TEMPERATURES THIS EVENING WITH VALLEY RAINS AND MOUNTAINS SNOWS. SNOW LEVELS ACROSS THE CWA WILL LOWER TO VALLEY FLOORS FROM NORTHWEST TO SOUTHEAST LATER THIS EVENING AND OVERNIGHT. THIS IS A VERY MOIST SYSTEM THAT IS IMPACTING THE CWA...WITH MUCH OF NORTHERN NEVADA EXPECTED TO RECEIVE BETWEEN A HALF INCH AND AN INCH OF QPF BETWEEN THE RAIN AND SNOW COMBINED. MOST OF THIS WILL BE RAIN FOR VALLEY LOCATIONS ACROSS NORTHERN NEVADA. THE HIGHER ELEVATION MOUNTAINS ACROSS THE NORTH WILL SEE 1 TO 2 FEET OF SNOW BEFORE THIS STORM ENDS. FOR CENTRAL NEVADA WHERE VALLEY ELEVATIONS ARE HIGHER...MORE OF THIS STORMS QPF WILL FALL AS SNOW. HOWEVER THERE IS LESS QPF EXPECTED ACROSS CENTRAL NEVADA. HAVE ISSUED WINTER WEATHER ADVISORIES FOR ALL OF NORTHERN AND MOST OF CENTRAL NEVADA FOR TONIGHT INTO SATURDAY. SNOW ACROSS HUMBOLDT AND NORTHERN ELKO COUNTY WILL TAPER OFF BY THE LATE MORNING HOURS...WITH SNOW CONTINUING ACROSS MOST OF THE REST OF THE CWA THROUGH SATURDAY AFTERNOON. AS THE FRONT MOVES SOUTH THROUGH CENTRAL NEVADA SATURDAY AFTERNOON MOST OF THE MODERATE TO LOCALLY HEAVY SNOWS WILL END. ANOTHER SURGE OF ENERGY EXPECTED TO IMPACT MAINLY JUST CENTRAL NEVADA SUNDAY AFTERNOON AND NIGHT AS THE TROUGH CARVES DOWN THROUGH NEVADA. TROUGH EXITS EAST INTO MONDAY WITH COOL TEMPERATURES AND LIGHT SNOW SHOWERS CONTINUING. .LONG TERM...TUESDAY THROUGH NEXT FRIDAY. AT THE ONSET OF THE FORECAST PERIOD...MODEL SOLUTIONS ARE SHOWING THE 500 MB TROUGH AXIS SPANNING FROM MANITOBA TO NEW MEXICO WITH NORTHWEST FLOW ACROSS THE LKN CWA. A SECONDARY IMPULSE FROM CANADA WILL DIVE SOUTH INTO THE EASTERN GREAT BASIN BRINGING SHOWERS AND ANOTHER SURGE OF CAA TO NE NV. THE ECMWF IS SHOWING A SIMILAR SECONDARY VORT LOBE ALBEIT 300 MILES TO THE WEST. WAITING FOR THE MODELS TO CONVERGE BEFORE JACKING UP THE POPS TOO HIGH. AFTERNOON TEMPERATURES WILL CONTINUE TO REMAIN BELOW NORMAL WITH HIGHS IN THE MID 20S TO MID 30S. WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY....THE 500 MB HEIGHTS WILL REBOUND OVER THE LKN CWA AS THE RIDGE MOVES OFF THE PACIFIC AND INTO THE DESERT SOUTHWEST. EXPECTING INVERSIONS TO SET UP...AND THE THERMAL BELT REGION WILL BE AROUND 6000 TO 6500 FEET. && .AVIATION...WITH A FRONT IN THE REGION...PERIODS OF MVFR/IFR CONDITIONS ARE POSSIBLE FOR CIGS. GUSTY WINDS POSSIBLE TOMORROW AFTERNOON AT ALL TAF SITES. && .LKN WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY FROM 10 PM THIS EVENING TO 10 AM PST SATURDAY FOR HUMBOLDT COUNTY-NORTHERN ELKO COUNTY. WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY FROM 10 PM THIS EVENING TO 6 PM PST SATURDAY FOR NORTHERN LANDER COUNTY AND NORTHERN EUREKA COUNTY- SOUTH CENTRAL ELKO COUNTY-SOUTHEASTERN ELKO COUNTY-SOUTHERN LANDER COUNTY AND SOUTHERN EUREKA COUNTY-SOUTHWEST ELKO COUNTY- WHITE PINE COUNTY. WINTER STORM WARNING UNTIL 6 PM PST SATURDAY FOR RUBY MOUNTAINS AND EAST HUMBOLDT RANGE. && 96/97/97
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
2 heavy snow. Local standard time, as filed.
Five to eight inches of snow was reported in the Battle Mountain area and 7 inches 49 miles south of Beowawe. The Lewis Mountain SNOTEL reported 8 inches.
Five to seven inches of snow was reported in Carlin, Elko, Ryndon, and Spring Creek.
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