Alert archive / Nevada / Wind Advisories in 2008
Wind Advisory 21, NWS Elko, NV
NWS Elko, NV issued this wind advisory at Aug 25, 2008, 3:37 AM PDT for Elko County, White Pine County, Nevada. It took effect at Aug 25, 2008, 8:00 PM PDT. It was in force for 9 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 25, 2008, 3:37 AM PDT (10:37 UTC)
- In effect from
- Aug 25, 2008, 8:00 PM PDT
- Expired
- Aug 26, 2008, 5:00 AM PDT
- In force
- 9 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Elko, NV
Counties Elko County, NV, White Pine County, NV
The radar
The Elko radar (KLRX), 150 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:42 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
Elko, NV (KLKN), launched 00:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 101 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
- 4402 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 3 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 251037 NPWLKN URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV 337 AM PDT MON AUG 25 2008 ...LOCALLY GUSTY WINDS ARE EXPECTED ACROSS NORTHERN AND EASTERN ELKO COUNTY THIS EVENING AND OVERNIGHT... NVZ031>034-261200- /O.NEW.KLKN.WI.Y.0021.080826T0300Z-080826T1200Z/ NORTHERN ELKO COUNTY-SOUTHWEST AND SOUTH CENTRAL ELKO COUNTY- EXTREME EASTERN ELKO COUNTY-RUBY MOUNTAINS/EAST HUMBOLDT RANGE- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...JACKPOT...WILDHORSE...OWYHEE...ELKO... SPRING CREEK...CARLIN...WELLS...WEST WENDOVER...LEE...RUBY LAKE 337 AM PDT MON AUG 25 2008 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 8 PM THIS EVENING TO 5 AM PDT TUESDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ELKO HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY... WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 8 PM THIS EVENING TO 5 AM PDT TUESDAY. WIND GUSTS OF 25 TO 35 MPH ARE EXPECTED IN MOST AREAS OF ELKO COUNTY THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING AS A LOW PRESSURE CENTER AND TROUGH APPROACH FROM THE NORTHWEST. LOCALLY STRONGER WINDS WILL BE POSSIBLE LATER THIS EVENING AND INTO THE EARLY MORNING HOURS TUESDAY ALONG AND NEAR THE EASTERN SIDES OF MOUNTAIN RANGES OF ELKO COUNTY...SUCH AS THE RUBY VALLEY AND RUBY LAKE AREA...AS THE FRONT MOVES THROUGH. WINDS ARE ALSO EXPECTED TO INCREASE IN THE WENDOVER AREA LATE TONIGHT...BOTH AHEAD OF AND ALONG THE FRONT. SUSTAINED WINDS IN THESE AREAS COULD REACH 25 TO 35 MPH...WITH GUSTS OF 40 TO 50 MPH POSSIBLE. AGAIN...THESE STRONGER WINDS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BE WIDE SPREAD...BUT RATHER MAINLY CONFINED TO LOCATIONS NEAR THE EASTERN SIDE OF HIGHER MOUNTAINS OR WHERE CHANNELING OF WINDS IS COMMON...SUCH AS WENDOVER. 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. $$ ROOD
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS75 KLKN 252104 NPWLKN URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV 204 PM PDT MON AUG 25 2008 ...LOCALLY GUSTY WINDS ARE EXPECTED ACROSS NORTHERN AND EASTERN ELKO COUNTY THIS EVENING AND OVERNIGHT... NVZ031>034-261200- /O.CON.KLKN.WI.Y.0021.080826T0300Z-080826T1200Z/ NORTHERN ELKO COUNTY-SOUTHWEST AND SOUTH CENTRAL ELKO COUNTY- EXTREME EASTERN ELKO COUNTY-RUBY MOUNTAINS/EAST HUMBOLDT RANGE- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...JACKPOT...WILDHORSE...OWYHEE...ELKO... SPRING CREEK...CARLIN...WELLS...WEST WENDOVER...LEE...RUBY LAKE 204 PM PDT MON AUG 25 2008 ...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 8 PM THIS EVENING TO 5 AM PDT TUESDAY... A WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 8 PM THIS EVENING TO 5 AM PDT TUESDAY. WIND GUSTS OF 25 TO 35 MPH ARE EXPECTED IN MOST AREAS OF ELKO COUNTY THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING AS A LOW PRESSURE CENTER AND TROUGH APPROACH FROM THE NORTHWEST. LOCALLY STRONGER WINDS WILL BE POSSIBLE LATER THIS EVENING AND INTO THE EARLY MORNING HOURS TUESDAY ALONG AND NEAR THE EASTERN SIDES OF MOUNTAIN RANGES OF ELKO COUNTY...SUCH AS THE RUBY VALLEY AND RUBY LAKE AREA...AS THE FRONT MOVES THROUGH. WINDS ARE ALSO EXPECTED TO INCREASE IN THE WENDOVER AREA LATE TONIGHT...BOTH AHEAD OF AND ALONG THE FRONT. SUSTAINED WINDS IN THESE AREAS COULD REACH 25 TO 35 MPH...WITH GUSTS OF 40 TO 50 MPH POSSIBLE. AGAIN...THESE STRONGER WINDS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BE WIDE SPREAD... BUT RATHER MAINLY CONFINED TO LOCATIONS NEAR THE EASTERN SIDE OF HIGHER MOUNTAINS OR WHERE CHANNELING OF WINDS IS COMMON...SUCH AS WENDOVER. A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT SUSTAINED WINDS OF 30 MPH WITH GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 45 MPH ARE EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. $$
000 WWUS75 KLKN 261158 NPWLKN URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV 458 AM PDT TUE AUG 26 2008 NVZ031>034-261300- /O.EXP.KLKN.WI.Y.0021.000000T0000Z-080826T1200Z/ NORTHERN ELKO COUNTY-SOUTHWEST AND SOUTH CENTRAL ELKO COUNTY- EXTREME EASTERN ELKO COUNTY-RUBY MOUNTAINS/EAST HUMBOLDT RANGE- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...JACKPOT...WILDHORSE...OWYHEE...ELKO... SPRING CREEK...CARLIN...WELLS...WEST WENDOVER...LEE...RUBY LAKE 458 AM PDT TUE AUG 26 2008 ...WIND ADVISORY WILL EXPIRE AT 5 AM PDT EARLY THIS MORNING... THE WIND ADVISORY WILL EXPIRE AT 5 AM PDT EARLY THIS MORNING. WINDS HAVE DIED OFF EARLY THIS MORNING ACROSS THE ADVISORY AREA...THEREFORE THE WIND ADVISORY WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE AT 5 AM PDT. AREAS JUST TO THE LEE OF THE RUBIES MAY EXPERIENCE WIND GUSTS UP TO 45 MPH THROUGH 7 AM PDT AND THEN START TO DECREASE THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF THE MORNING. $$ JMG
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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.