Alert archive / Nevada / Wind Advisories in 2007
Wind Advisory 9, NWS Elko, NV
NWS Elko, NV issued this wind advisory at May 2, 2007, 8:27 PM PDT for Elko County, Nevada. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 2, 2007, 8:27 PM PDT (03:27 UTC)
- Expired
- May 3, 2007, 1:00 AM PDT
- In force
- 5 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 03:31 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Elko, NV (KLKN), launched 00:00Z, 3.5 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2210 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -2 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 193 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WWUS75 KLKN 030327 NPWLKN URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV 827 PM PDT WED MAY 2 2007 NVZ033-030800- /O.NEW.KLKN.WI.Y.0009.070503T0327Z-070503T0800Z/ EXTREME EASTERN ELKO COUNTY- INCLUDING THE CITY OF...WEST WENDOVER 827 PM PDT WED MAY 2 2007 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 1 AM PDT THURSDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ELKO HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY... WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1 AM PDT / 2 AM MDT THURSDAY. A STRONG COLD FRONT WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE THROUGH EASTERN NEVADA THIS EVENING THROUGH EARLY THURSDAY MORNING. SUSTAINED NORTHWEST WINDS OF 30 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS AROUND 50 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED THROUGH 1 AM PDT / 2 AM MDT. A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT SUSTAINED WINDS OF 30 MPH WITH GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 45 MPH ARE EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. $$ LW
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS75 KLKN 030756 NPWLKN URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV 1255 AM PDT THU MAY 3 2007 NVZ033-030900- /O.EXP.KLKN.WI.Y.0009.000000T0000Z-070503T0800Z/ EXTREME EASTERN ELKO COUNTY- INCLUDING THE CITY OF...WEST WENDOVER 1255 AM PDT THU MAY 3 2007 ...WIND ADVISORY WILL EXPIRE AT 1 AM PDT EARLY THIS MORNING... THE WIND ADVISORY FOR EXTREME EASTERN ELKO COUNTY...INCLUDING THE WENDOVER AREA...WILL EXPIRE AT 1 AM PDT EARLY THIS MORNING. NORTHWEST WINDS AT 20 TO 30 MPH WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF THE NIGHT...WITH GUSTS TO 40 MPH. NORTHWEST WINDS WILL DIMINISH MID TO LATE MORNING TO 15 TO 25 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 35 MPH. $$
Nearby
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.