Alert archive / Nevada / Wind Advisories in 2011
Wind Advisory 22, NWS Elko, NV
NWS Elko, NV issued this wind advisory at Apr 29, 2011, 3:00 AM PDT for Elko County, Nevada. It was in force for 14 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 29, 2011, 3:00 AM PDT (10:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 29, 2011, 5:17 PM PDT
- In force
- 14 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 10:01 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 00:00Z, 10.0 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2956 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 63 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.
385 WWUS75 KLKN 291000 NPWLKN URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV 300 AM PDT FRI APR 29 2011 NVZ013-033-292300- /O.NEW.KLKN.WI.Y.0022.110429T1000Z-110430T0400Z/ NORTHERN NYE COUNTY-EXTREME EASTERN ELKO COUNTY- INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...TONOPAH...ROUND MOUNTAIN... DUCKWATER...CURRANT SUMMIT...SILVER ZONE PASS...WEST WENDOVER 300 AM PDT FRI APR 29 2011 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM PDT THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ELKO HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY... WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM PDT THIS EVENING. * WINDS: NORTHWEST WINDS 25 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 45 MPH. * TIMING: THE STRONGEST WINDS WILL OCCUR FROM MID-MORNING THROUGH THE AFTERNOON. * LOCATIONS INCLUDE: TONOPAH...ROUND MOUNTAIN...DUCKWATER... CURRANT SUMMIT...SILVER ZONE PASS...WEST WENDOVER * IMPACTS: WINDS COULD MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR THOSE IN HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. 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. && $$
2 follow-up statements
630 WWUS75 KLKN 292210 NPWLKN URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV 310 PM PDT FRI APR 29 2011 NVZ013-033-300400- /O.CON.KLKN.WI.Y.0022.000000T0000Z-110430T0400Z/ NORTHERN NYE COUNTY-EXTREME EASTERN ELKO COUNTY- INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...TONOPAH...ROUND MOUNTAIN... DUCKWATER...CURRANT SUMMIT...SILVER ZONE PASS...WEST WENDOVER 310 PM PDT FRI APR 29 2011 ...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM PDT THIS EVENING... A WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM PDT THIS EVENING. * WINDS: NORTHWEST WINDS 25 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 45 MPH. * TIMING: STRONGEST WINDS ARE EXPECTED THROUGH THE LATE AFTERNOON BEFORE GRADUALLY DIMINISHING THIS EVENING. * LOCATIONS INCLUDE: TONOPAH...ROUND MOUNTAIN...DUCKWATER... CURRANT SUMMIT...SILVER ZONE PASS...WEST WENDOVER * IMPACTS: WINDS COULD MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR THOSE IN HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT SUSTAINED WINDS OF 30 MPH WITH GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 45 MPH ARE EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. && $$ TURNER
016 WWUS75 KLKN 300017 NPWLKN URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV 517 PM PDT FRI APR 29 2011 NVZ013-033-300130- /O.CAN.KLKN.WI.Y.0022.000000T0000Z-110430T0400Z/ NORTHERN NYE COUNTY-EXTREME EASTERN ELKO COUNTY- INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...TONOPAH...ROUND MOUNTAIN... DUCKWATER...CURRANT SUMMIT...SILVER ZONE PASS...WEST WENDOVER 517 PM PDT FRI APR 29 2011 ...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ELKO HAS CANCELLED THE WIND ADVISORY. WINDS ARE SUBSIDING HOWEVER SOME WIND GUSTS IN THE 30 TO 40 MPH RANGE CAN BE EXPECTED UNTIL SUNSET THIS EVENING. $$ LW
Nearby
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.