Inverted V soundings showed the perfect environment for storms to produce gusty erratic winds around the state.
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Inverted V soundings showed the perfect environment for storms to produce gusty erratic winds around the state.
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 Aug 19, 12:44 AM PST, 7 hours 57 minutes earlier.
Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Elko NV 144 AM PDT Fri Aug 19 2022 .SYNOPSIS...Showers and thunderstorms are expected again this afternoon and evening in eastern Nevada. Temperatures will remain below normal, mainly in the 80's. && .SHORT TERM...Today through Saturday night The upper trof that brought the showers and thunderstorms to the state on Thursday stalls some in eastern Nevada today and therefore that is where the focus will be for additional shower and thunderstorm activity during afternoon heating hours. Best chance for measurable rain will be in Elko County and the eastern half of White Pine, though some cloud build-ups and gusty outflows will be possible east of this area. Localized heavy showers with flooding will be on the wane today as PWATs decrease and storm motions increase a bit. Outside of storms, there could be some light afternoon breezes. Highs will remain below normal, mainly in the 80's. Saturday afternoon will once again see some convective activity, though likely even further east towards the Utah border. After a low mainly in the 50's, highs will once again be in the 80's, except for very western Nevada, where temperatures will climb into the lower to middle 90's. .LONG TERM...Sunday through next Friday. Model agreement continues to see the progression of the first of two troughs across the Western United States. Latest runs expect the initial trough to be exiting our region fully by Sunday forcing both the stagnate high pressure and monsoonal moisture to eject eastward from the Silver State. With the ejection of the moisture, showers and thunderstorm probability will significantly drop off for that afternoon and evening time frame. As of right now, model agreement sees the only chances of activity for the day being a few isolated showers in the eastern corners of the region with conditions only expected to get drier as we progress into Monday. Heading into the new week, a drier pattern will look to hold as the secondary trough makes its way into the Pacific Northwest Monday and keeps the high and moisture from returning north for the day. Potential for showers does exist for the afternoon, but expect thunderstorm activity be a more isolated and dry feature with focus mostly in the eastern corners of the region. Expect Tuesday to be much the same as the trough holds down over Idaho for the day. As for the middle and end of the week, potential is there for a slightly better moisture push with the high once again establishing itself over the Four Corners region. However, it may be too early to tell as models are still trying to reach a good agreement on the exact placement of the centers for both the high and the trough. Alongside this disagreement, latest model runs have begun to see a small short- wave disturbance develop early Wednesday that could push activity further eastward for the rest of next week. For now, look for temperatures to be on a slight rise with Northern Nevada seeing afternoon highs return to the mid to low 90s by the start of next week. Meanwhile, overnight low temperatures will sit more towards the high 50s to low 60s for the period. && .AVIATION...VFR conditions will be predominate across western NV. Friday afternoon the showers and thunderstorms will reform mostly in eastern NV with coverage increasing while approaching the NV/UT border. KEKO and KELY will be the most likely terminals impacted by thunderstorms and showers with a lesser chance for KBAM. Erratic gusty winds will be the main threat from the showers and thunderstorms with a few outflows possible being strong. A few stronger storms will be possible which will be able to produce hail. Heavy rain shafts will also be possible which can obscure mountain ranges and drop conditions below VFR. && .FIRE WEATHER...An isolated to scattered mix of wet and dry storms is expected this afternoon, mainly in FW Zones 425, 426, 469, and 470. The wetter storms are expected in eastern portions of these zones and drier ones further West. Some isolated dry strikes could occur in these western storms and outside of main storm cores. Elsewhere, some isolated build-ups with gusty outflow winds are possible. There will be some light west to northwest breezes this afternoon outside of storms, mainly in central Nevada. && .LKN WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... None. && 90/94/99/90
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Station (SPGN2) Spring Gulch Raws, Elevation 5470 feet. A Collapsing storm with no lightning produce non-convective winds.
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