ZCZC NFDSPENES ALL SPENES . SATELLITE PRECIPITATION ESTIMATES..DATE/TIME 08/26/07 2224Z SATELLITE ANALYSIS BRANCH/NESDIS---NPPU---TEL.301-763-8678 LATEST DATA USED: GOES-11 2215Z RUMINSKI . LOCATION...NEVADA...CALIFORNIA... . ATTN WFOS...REV...HNX...STO... ATTN RFCS...CNRFC... . EVENT...ANCHORED CONVECTION ALONG THE MONO COUNTY CALIFORNIA AND MINERAL COUNTY NEVADA BORDER . SATELLITE ANALYSIS AND TRENDS...CNVTN DEVELOPED ARND 1900Z ALG THE BORDER AREA IN THE TOIYABE NATIONAL FOREST WEST OF POWELL MT. THERE HAS BEEN ADL CNVTN IN MINERAL COUNTY BUT THIS IS THE AREA OF MOST CONCERN SINCE IT HAS BEEN MOST PERSISTENT. AMS IS NOT AS MOIST AS FURTHER S ALTHOUGH PW VALUE IS A BIT UNCERTAIN IN THIS IMMEDIATE VICINITY. GOES DERIVED PW/S SHOWING ONLY ABT .5" WHILE GPS INDICATES JUST UNDER 1". 18Z NAM ANALYSIS IS IN BTWN BUT A LTL CLOSER TO GPS VALUE. . GIVEN THIS UNCERTAINTY IT/S DIFFICULT TO GET A GOOD HANDLE ON RAINFALL ESTIMATES. HOWEVER..IT SEEMS LIKELY THAT AT LEAST AN INCH HAS FALLEN IN THE MOST PERSISTENT AREA W OF POWELL MT. SOMEWHAT LESS IS ESTD WITH CNVTV LN JUST TO THE S IN S CENTRAL MINERAL COUNTY BUT THIS LN IS NOW SHIFTING S INTO NRN ESMERALDA AS OUTFLOW HAS DEVELOPED. . SEE NCEP HPC DISCUSSION AND QPF/S FOR FORECAST. ....NESDIS IS A MEMBER OF 12 PLANET.... . SSD/SAB WEB ADDRESS FOR PRECIP ESTIMATES: HTTP://WWW.SSD.NOAA.GOV/PS/PCPN/ ...ALL LOWER CASE EXCEPT /PS/PCPN/ . LAT...LON 3871 11958 3866 11826 3788 11839 3789 11961 . NNNN