Alert archive / Nevada / Wind Advisories in 2011
Wind Advisory 1, NWS Elko, NV
NWS Elko, NV issued this wind advisory at Jan 15, 2011, 1:35 PM PST for Elko County, White Pine County, Nevada. It took effect at Jan 15, 2011, 10:00 PM PST. It was in force for 12 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 15, 2011, 1:35 PM PST (21:35 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 15, 2011, 10:00 PM PST
- Expired
- Jan 16, 2011, 10:00 AM PST
- In force
- 12 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 21:35 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, 9.6 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
- 902 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 13 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 142 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
162 WWUS75 KLKN 152135 NPWLKN URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV 135 PM PST SAT JAN 15 2011 NVZ032-034-161800- /O.NEW.KLKN.WI.Y.0001.110116T0600Z-110116T1800Z/ SOUTHWEST AND SOUTH CENTRAL ELKO COUNTY- RUBY MOUNTAINS/EAST HUMBOLDT RANGE- INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...LAMOILLE CANYON... HARRISON PASS 135 PM PST SAT JAN 15 2011 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 10 PM THIS EVENING TO 10 AM PST SUNDAY FOR THE EASTERN SLOPES OF THE RUBY MOUNTAINS/EAST HUMBOLDT RANGE... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ELKO HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY FOR THE EASTERN SLOPES OF THE RUBY MOUNTAINS/EAST HUMBOLDT RANGE...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 10 PM THIS EVENING TO 10 AM PST SUNDAY. * WINDS: WEST TO NORTHWEST WINDS 10 TO 15 MPH WILL INCREASE TO 20 TO 30 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 50 MPH. * TIMING: STRONG WINDS WILL BEGIN DURING THE EVENING...GRADUALLY DECREASING BY SUNDAY MORNING. * LOCATIONS INCLUDE: LAMOILLE CANYON...HARRISON PASS. * IMPACTS: STRONG AND GUSTY WINDS WILL MAKE TRAVEL DIFFICULT IN RUBY AND CLOVER VALLEYS TONIGHT AND ALONG HIGHWAY 93 FROM WELLS TO 25 MILES SOUTH OF WELLS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... 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. && $$
2 follow-up statements
722 WWUS75 KLKN 161053 NPWLKN URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV 253 AM PST SUN JAN 16 2011 NVZ032-034-161800- /O.CON.KLKN.WI.Y.0001.000000T0000Z-110116T1800Z/ SOUTHWEST AND SOUTH CENTRAL ELKO COUNTY- RUBY MOUNTAINS/EAST HUMBOLDT RANGE- INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...LAMOILLE CANYON... HARRISON PASS 253 AM PST SUN JAN 16 2011 ...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM PST THIS MORNING FOR THE EASTERN SLOPES OF THE RUBY MOUNTAINS/EAST HUMBOLDT RANGE... A WIND ADVISORY FOR THE EASTERN SLOPES OF THE RUBY MOUNTAINS/EAST HUMBOLDT RANGE REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM PST THIS MORNING. * WINDS: WEST TO NORTHWEST WINDS 15 TO 25 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 50 MPH. * TIMING: GUSTY WINDS ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE THROUGH THE LATE NIGHT HOURS AND BEGIN TO DIMINISH BY MID-MORNING. * LOCATIONS INCLUDE: THE EASTERN SLOPES OF THE RUBY MOUNTAINS ALONG WITH THE RUBY AND CLOVER VALLEY AREAS...AS WELL AS HIGHWAY 93 FROM WELLS TO 25 MILES SOUTH OF WELLS. * IMPACTS: GUSTY WEST TO NORTHWEST WINDS COULD MAKE TRAVEL DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES THIS MORNING. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... THIS WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 45 MPH ARE EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. && $$
937 WWUS75 KLKN 161754 NPWLKN URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV 954 AM PST SUN JAN 16 2011 NVZ032-034-161900- /O.EXP.KLKN.WI.Y.0001.000000T0000Z-110116T1800Z/ SOUTHWEST AND SOUTH CENTRAL ELKO COUNTY- RUBY MOUNTAINS/EAST HUMBOLDT RANGE- INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...LAMOILLE CANYON... HARRISON PASS 954 AM PST SUN JAN 16 2011 ...WIND ADVISORY WILL EXPIRE AT 10 AM PST THIS MORNING FOR THE EASTERN SLOPES OF THE RUBY MOUNTAINS/EAST HUMBOLDT RANGE... THE WIND ADVISORY FOR THE EASTERN SLOPES OF THE RUBY MOUNTAINS/EAST HUMBOLDT RANGE WILL EXPIRE AT 10 AM PST THIS MORNING. NORTHWEST WINDS HAVE DECREASED TO 10 TO 15 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 30 MPH. THEREFORE...THE WIND ADVISORY HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. $$
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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.