Pre-frontal winds gusted across Northern Nye and White Pine counties.
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Pre-frontal winds gusted across Northern Nye and White Pine counties.
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 Oct 18, 1:36 AM PST, 35 minutes earlier.
Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Elko NV 236 AM PDT Mon Oct 18 2021 .SYNOPSIS...A mix of rain and snow is expected over much of northern and central NV today. Best chances for snow will be at elevations above 6000 feet. Slush or snow accumulation is possible on high elevation summits including sections of I80 and Highway 50. Showers taper off in most locations by late this evening, with cool and dry conditions on Tuesday. && .SHORT TERM...Today through Tuesday. Trough energy approaching from the west coast continues to deepen early this morning, forming a closed low over northern and central CA/NV. Southerly winds will remain gusty over much of east-central NV through around noon today ahead of the approaching front. Precipitation is spreading into western portions of the CWA at this time, which will continue to expand east and south through the day. Latest trend in guidance has the low dipping slightly further south. This in turn has reduced the amount of QPF over the mountains of northern Elko County for today, while at the same time increased the amount of moisture for Lander and Eureka Counties. This shift south in the Low means summits along Highway 50 may now also see some slush or light snow accumulations today. Showers taper off in most areas by late this evening, though some lighter showers may linger over and east of the Ruby Mountains, as well as some higher peaks in White Pine County. Clouds are expected to linger through the evening hours, with scattering overnight. Depending on how early skies clear out tonight, and where precipitation falls today, there may be some freezing fog setting up Tuesday morning. There may also be some icy roads early Tuesday as morning lows drop into the 20s. Otherwise, mostly sunny on Tuesday across the CWA with high temperatures warming by 5-10 degrees, with most valley areas climbing back into the 50s. .LONG TERM...Tuesday night through next Sunday. Ridging and high pressure continues to be nestled over southeastern Nevada bringing dry conditions for the overnight and into mid-week. Meanwhile in northwestern Nevada, activity is expected to differ as model agreement sees a trough off the California coast brush the area Wednesday. Isolated showers are possible across Humboldt county, but guidance prefers to keep amounts light. By Wednesday afternoon, models sees flow shift to more zonal westerly direction as high pressure and ridging build in strength Thursday. Conditions should remain dry for the region into Thursday, but are not expected to last. As early as that night, model agreement sees another trough make it passage over northern Nevada from the California coast. Much like Wednesday, showers will once again be possible over Northern Nevada Friday with latest guidance seeing showers spread south into Lander and Eureka counties. Winds also look to pick up around the region that afternoon as winds shift to more southerly ahead of the system. Agreement between models becomes more muddy as we approach the weekend, but the general consensus continues to point to more widespread activity for the weekend. Temperatures will continue their warming trend for the week as models see afternoon temperatures rise back into the mid 60s by Friday. Overnight temperatures will also warm slightly as temperatures settle back into the 30s near the end of the week. && .AVIATION...VFR conditions will last at all terminals until the early morning hours when a cold front passes through the region. Winds will be southerly and gusty ahead of the front today especially at KELY where gusts are capable of being in the 30s kt range. The passage of the the front will see these winds calm, but still bring about breezy west to northwesterly gust over the remainder of the day at all the sites. Behind the frontal system rain and snow shower are possible at all terminals. Guidance continues to see KWMC, KBAM, and KEKO have a mix of rain/snow while KELY should see mainly snow. KTPH looks to be the least impacted with most of the precipitation expected to the north of the site. This system will cause low ceilings of MVFR to IFR to these terminals with the exception of KTPH. Visibility should remain closer to VFR as the showers are look to be light. However, the potential exists for heavier showers in the morning that could briefly take the visibility down to IFR as well. The low clouds and precipitation will cause mountain obstruction throughout NV. Icing and turbulence are also possible with this system so check the Aviation Weather Center for more in depth forecasts for those two. && .FIRE WEATHER...A mix of rain and snow will spread over much of northern and central NV today which will produce some moderate QPF amounts in some zones. Showers taper off by this evening. There will also be gusty southerly winds over east-central NV through around noon today, with highest gusts of 30 to 40 mph over zone 425. Cool and dry conditions along with lighter winds are expected in all zones on Tuesday as brief high pressure builds in over Nevada. && .LKN WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... Winter Weather Advisory from 5 AM early this morning to 11 PM PDT this evening for Ruby Mountains and East Humboldt Range. && 96/94/94/96
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
3 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Mather Raws (MTHN2), Elevation 9268 feet.
Station (TMBN2) Timber Mountain, Elevation 9000 feet.
Station (CMP26) Warm Spring Summit, Elevation 7550 feet.
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