Thunderstorm winds downed power lines in Baker.
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Thunderstorm winds downed power lines in Baker.
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 Sep 6, 1:43 AM PST, 12 hours 2 minutes earlier.
Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Elko NV 243 AM PDT Wed Sep 6 2017 .SYNOPSIS...One more hot day with near record high temperatures on Wednesday before a cooling trend begins with temperatures near normal by the weekend. Isolated to scattered thunderstorms over most of northern and central Nevada Wednesday and Thursday then thunderstorms confined mainly to eastern Nevada Friday and Saturday. && .SHORT TERM...Today through Thursday. Remnants of Tropical Storm Lidia off the coast of northern California is pulling a little moisture north into Nevada. This close weak low will open and drift east, eroding the ridge over the Basin through the short term period. Isolated thunderstorms will spread into all but northern and eastern Elko county Wednesday afternoon. Mainly isolated thunderstorms across the area on Thursday, except drying out across northern Nye County and southern Lander and Eureka Counties as drier air from the southwest pushes into the region. One more day of near record high temperatures on Wednesday before a cooling trend begins on Thursday. .LONG TERM...Thursday night through next Wednesday. After California coastal low lifts northward and opens up on Thursday, more Pacific trough energy digs southward in its place on Friday which establishes a larger cut-off low well off the California coast over the weekend into early next week. Meanwhile, what has been a dominant upper high over the interior West will shift southeastward and re- establish itself over the Four Corners region later in the weekend. As a result, Nevada will be in between these two systems which will cause a surge of sub-tropical moisture to lift northward across the state on Friday and Saturday to produce a little better chance of scattered showers and thunderstorms. The upper low is forecast to wobble farther south out at sea later in the weekend while the Four Corners high shifts a little westward as Hurricane Irma impacts the Southeast U.S. Enough moisture should linger for a few isolated storms to occur on Sunday and Monday mainly over central and southern parts of the state. There will likely be a gradual shift of this moisture into the northern half of Nevada Tuesday into Wednesday before the upper-low off the California coast opens up and is pulled northeastward into the stronger westerlies along the northern CONUS. Daytime temperatures will briefly cool down closer to normal in the 80s for Friday and Saturday due to cloud cover, but are expected to warm back up to around or above 90 early next week. It will become breezy on Friday afternoon when a low- level southerly jet will likely cause surface winds to gust up around 30 mph especially across central Nevada. && .AVIATION...Areas of smoke/haze will continue overnight across the northern third of Nevada and linger into the daytime especially in the northeast across Elko County. Slant visibilities will be limited, but surface visibilities are expected to remain VFR. Southerly flow of moisture ahead of California coastal low combined with the instability of daytime heating will generate isolated to scattered showers and thunderstorms in the vicinity of all TAF sites with storms initiating in the late morning and early afternoon around KTPH and KELY then spreading northward to around KEKO and KWMC later in the afternoon and early evening. One more hot day with valley temperatures in the 90s so density altitudes will be higher than normally expected. && .FIRE WEATHER...An area of storms, some wet, will cover most of central and northern Nevada today. Exception will be zones 469 and 470 with drier air. Slow movement of storms will allow some to produce light showers, but wetting rains will be limited. Thursday and Friday storms move north and east. Winds generally too light and RH's too high for red flags. Friday will have slightly stronger winds but still not to red flag levels. && .LKN WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... None. && 98/95/95/98
The Cedar City radar (KICX), 194 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:44 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Thunderstorm winds knocked down power lines in Baker. Power was out through the night.
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