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Blizzard Warning 1, NWS Elko, NV

November 22, 2010Elko County, White Pine County, Nevada

NWS Elko, NV issued this blizzard warning at Nov 22, 2010, 2:18 PM PST for Elko County, White Pine County, Nevada. It took effect at Nov 23, 2010, 3:23 AM PST. It was in force for 16 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Nov 22, 2010, 2:18 PM PST (22:18 UTC)
In effect from: Nov 23, 2010, 3:23 AM PST
Expired: Nov 23, 2010, 7:00 PM PST
In force: 16 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 22:22 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

Reno, NV (KREV), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 274 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: 1213 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 78 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 280 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 334 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 blizzard warning 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 blizzard warning went out at Nov 22, 4:50 AM PST, 9 hours 28 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Nov 22, 4:50 AM PST, 9 hours 28 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 22, 3:49 AM PST	Winter Storm Warning	LKN	Elko, Eureka, Humboldt, Lander, White Pine	36 hr
Nov 22, 3:49 AM PST	Winter Weather Advisory	LKN	Elko, Eureka, Lander, White Pine	42 hr

Nearby

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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.