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Snow Advisory 4, NWS Elko, NV

November 28, 2005Elko County, Nevada

NWS Elko, NV issued this snow advisory at Nov 28, 2005, 12:09 PM PST for Elko County, Nevada. It took effect at Nov 28, 2005, 6:00 PM PST. It was in force for 17 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Nov 28, 2005, 12:09 PM PST (20:09 UTC)
In effect from: Nov 28, 2005, 6:00 PM PST
Expired: Nov 29, 2005, 10:36 AM PST
In force: 17 hr
Issued by: NWS Elko, NV

County Elko County, NV

The radar

The Elko radar (KLRX), 129 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:10 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Boise Airport, ID (KBOI), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 278 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1122 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 101 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 36 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 66 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this snow advisory went out, 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 this snow advisory went out at Nov 28, 5:45 AM PST, 6 hours 24 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Nov 28, 5:45 AM PST, 6 hours 24 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Elko, NV issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 28, 5:07 AM PST	Snow Advisory	LKN	Elko, Eureka, Humboldt, Lander, White Pine	13 hr
Nov 28, 12:09 PM PST	Heavy Snow Warning	LKN	Elko, Eureka, Humboldt, Lander, White Pine	22 hr

Nearby

Snow Advisories in Nevada, 2005 Every snow advisory in 2005

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.