Alert archive / Nevada / Frost Advisories in 2008
Frost Advisory 1, NWS Elko, NV
NWS Elko, NV issued this frost advisory at Sep 1, 2008, 2:27 AM PDT for Eureka County, Humboldt County, Lander County, Nevada. It took effect at Sep 2, 2008, 12:00 AM PDT. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 1, 2008, 2:27 AM PDT (09:27 UTC)
- In effect from
- Sep 2, 2008, 12:00 AM PDT
- Expired
- Sep 2, 2008, 8:00 AM PDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Elko, NV
Counties Eureka County, NV, Humboldt County, NV, Lander County, NV
The radar
The Elko radar (KLRX), 44 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:26 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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
Elko, NV (KLKN), launched 00:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 252 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
- 4779 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 65 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -88 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Elko, NV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 1, 2:27 AM PDT | Freeze Warning | LKN | Elko, Eureka, Lander, White Pine | 30 hr |
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.