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Snow Advisory 2, NWS Elko, NV

January 23, 2008Eureka County, Lander County, White Pine County, Nevada

NWS Elko, NV issued this snow advisory at Jan 23, 2008, 3:20 PM PST for Eureka County, Lander County, White Pine County, Nevada. It took effect at Jan 24, 2008, 12:00 AM PST. It was in force for 15 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jan 23, 2008, 3:20 PM PST (23:20 UTC)
In effect from
Jan 24, 2008, 12:00 AM PST
Expired
Jan 24, 2008, 2:59 PM PST
In force
15 hr
Issued by
NWS Elko, NV

Counties Eureka County, NV, Lander County, NV, White Pine County, NV

The radar

The Elko radar (KLRX), 123 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:19 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

Mercury/Desert R, NV (KDRA), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 352 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, Mercury/Desert R, NV at 12:00Z on 2008-01-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Mercury/Desert R, NV at 12:00Z on 2008-01-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 58 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1171 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
65 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
58 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
118 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.