Alert archive / Nevada / Wind Advisories in 2011
Wind Advisory 48, NWS Elko, NV
NWS Elko, NV issued this wind advisory at Dec 21, 2011, 1:13 AM PST for Elko County, Nevada. It took effect at Dec 21, 2011, 11:00 AM PST. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 21, 2011, 1:13 AM PST (09:13 UTC)
- In effect from
- Dec 21, 2011, 11:00 AM PST
- Expired
- Dec 21, 2011, 6:00 PM PST
- In force
- 7 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 09:13 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, 9.2 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2423 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 74 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 116 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
422 WWUS75 KLKN 210913 NPWLKN URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV 113 AM PST WED DEC 21 2011 NVZ033-220200- /O.NEW.KLKN.WI.Y.0048.111221T1900Z-111222T0200Z/ EXTREME EASTERN ELKO COUNTY- INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...SILVER ZONE PASS... WEST WENDOVER 113 AM PST WED DEC 21 2011 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM THIS MORNING TO 6 PM PST THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ELKO HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY... WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM THIS MORNING TO 6 PM PST THIS EVENING. * WINDS: NORTHWEST 20 TO 30 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 50 MPH. * TIMING: STRONGEST WINDS WILL BE BETWEEN 1 PM AND 4 PM THIS AFTERNOON. * LOCATIONS INCLUDE: SILVER ZONE PASS...WEST WENDOVER * IMPACTS: STRONG WINDS WILL LEAD TO DANGEROUS CROSSWINDS ON WEST TO EAST ROADWAYS LIKE INTERSTATE 80. MOTORISTS ARE URGED TO USE CAUTION WHILE TRAVELING. 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. && $$
2 follow-up statements
976 WWUS75 KLKN 212210 NPWLKN URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV 210 PM PST WED DEC 21 2011 NVZ033-220200- /O.CON.KLKN.WI.Y.0048.000000T0000Z-111222T0200Z/ EXTREME EASTERN ELKO COUNTY- INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...SILVER ZONE PASS... WEST WENDOVER 210 PM PST WED DEC 21 2011 ...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM PST THIS EVENING... A WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM PST THIS EVENING. * WINDS: NORTHWEST 20 TO 30 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 50 MPH. * TIMING: STRONGEST WINDS WILL OCCUR THROUGH 5 PM THIS EVENING. * LOCATIONS INCLUDE: SILVER ZONE PASS...WEST WENDOVER * IMPACTS: STRONG WINDS WILL LEAD TO DANGEROUS CROSSWINDS ON WEST TO EAST ROADWAYS LIKE INTERSTATE 80. MOTORISTS ARE URGED TO USE CAUTION WHILE TRAVELING. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT SUSTAINED WINDS OF 30 MPH WITH GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 45 MPH ARE EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. && $$ TURNER
245 WWUS75 KLKN 220203 NPWLKN URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV 603 PM PST WED DEC 21 2011 NVZ033-220315- /O.EXP.KLKN.WI.Y.0048.000000T0000Z-111222T0200Z/ EXTREME EASTERN ELKO COUNTY- INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...SILVER ZONE PASS... WEST WENDOVER 603 PM PST WED DEC 21 2011 ...WIND ADVISORY WILL EXPIRE AT 6 PM PST THIS EVENING... THE WIND ADVISORY FOR EXTREME EASTERN ELKO COUNTY WILL EXPIRED AT 6 PM PST THIS EVENING. HOWEVER...NORTHWEST WINDS OF 10 TO 25 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 30 MPH WILL CONTINUE INTO THE EVENING HOURS. $$
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.