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Wind Advisory 14, NWS Elko, NV

April 28, 2010Elko County, Nevada

NWS Elko, NV issued this wind advisory at Apr 28, 2010, 4:10 PM PDT for Elko County, Nevada. It took effect at Apr 29, 2010, 10:00 AM PDT. It was in force for 10 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 28, 2010, 4:10 PM PDT (23:10 UTC)
In effect from
Apr 29, 2010, 10:00 AM PDT
Expired
Apr 29, 2010, 8:00 PM PDT
In force
10 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 23:09 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 12:00Z, 11.2 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Elko, NV at 12:00Z on 2010-04-28Temperature 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 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Elko, NV at 12:00Z on 2010-04-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -135 square meters per square second.1939587897117136156Sfc1 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
1047 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
104 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-135 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-41 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Elko, NV issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 28, 10:27 AM PDTWind AdvisoryLKNElko10 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.