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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 12, NWS Elko, NV

August 16, 2005Elko County, Nevada

NWS Elko, NV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 16, 2005, 3:29 PM PDT for Elko County, Nevada. It was in force for 31 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

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The facts

Issued
Aug 16, 2005, 3:29 PM PDT (22:29 UTC)
Expired
Aug 16, 2005, 4:00 PM PDT
In force
31 min
Issued by
NWS Elko, NV
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Elko County, NV

The nearest sounding before it

Elko, NV (KLKN), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 102 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Elko, NV at 12:00Z on 2005-08-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 5 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Elko, NV at 12:00Z on 2005-08-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 51 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
5 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-223 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1486 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
51 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
55 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.