Alert archive / Nevada / Winter Storm Watches in 2011
Winter Storm Watch 3, NWS Elko, NV
NWS Elko, NV issued this winter storm watch at Mar 19, 2011, 2:50 AM PDT for Eureka County, Lander County, White Pine County, Nevada. It took effect at Mar 20, 2011, 5:00 PM PDT. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 19, 2011, 2:50 AM PDT (09:50 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 20, 2011, 5:00 PM PDT
- Expired
- Mar 20, 2011, 4:00 AM PDT
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Elko, NV
Counties Eureka County, NV, Lander County, NV, White Pine County, NV
The radar
The Elko radar (KLRX), 123 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:53 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
Reno, NV (KREV), launched 00:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 184 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
- 1357 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 61 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 65 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 324 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this winter storm watch 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 winter storm watch went out at Mar 18, 2:59 PM PDT, 11 hours 51 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 18, 2:59 PM PDT, 11 hours 51 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 18, 2:32 PM PDT, 12 hours 18 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV 232 PM PDT FRI MAR 18 2011 NVZ013-030>037-192145- NORTHERN NYE COUNTY-HUMBOLDT COUNTY-NORTHERN ELKO COUNTY- SOUTHWEST AND SOUTH CENTRAL ELKO COUNTY- EXTREME EASTERN ELKO COUNTY-RUBY MOUNTAINS/EAST HUMBOLDT RANGE- WHITE PINE COUNTY- NORTHERN LANDER COUNTY AND NORTHERN EUREKA COUNTY- SOUTHERN LANDER COUNTY AND SOUTHERN EUREKA COUNTY- 232 PM PDT FRI MAR 18 2011 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF EAST CENTRAL NEVADA...NORTH CENTRAL NEVADA...NORTHEAST NEVADA...NORTHWEST NEVADA AND SOUTH CENTRAL NEVADA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. A STRONG LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM OFF THE CALIFORNIA COAST WILL BRING BREEZY TO WINDY CONDITIONS TO NORTHERN AND CENTRAL NEVADA THROUGH THIS EVENING. THESE WINDS MAY PRODUCE AREAS OF BLOWING DUST. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. A STRONG LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM WILL BRING BREEZY TO WINDY CONDITIONS ACROSS NORTHERN AND CENTRAL NEVADA AGAIN ON SATURDAY. THE STRONGEST WINDS WILL BE ACROSS CENTRAL NEVADA WHERE SOUTHWEST WINDS OF 20 TO 30 MPH WITH GUSTS OVER 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED. ALONG WITH THE WINDS SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS SNOW SHOWERS ARE EXPECTED WITH AMOUNTS GENERALLY LESS THAN 1 INCH. ON SUNDAY EVEN STRONGER SOUTHERLY WINDS ARE EXPECTED WITH SPEEDS OF 25 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS NEAR 50 MPH. THE LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM WILL MOVE ACROSS THE AREA ON MONDAY WITH 1 TO 3 INCHES OF SNOW IN MANY AREAS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS ARE ASKED TO REPORT WEATHER PHENOMENA ACCORDING TO STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURE.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Elko, NV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 19, 3:47 AM PDT | High Wind Watch | LKN | Eureka, Lander, White Pine | 25 hr |
| Mar 19, 3:47 AM PDT | Wind Advisory | LKN | Elko, White Pine | 14 hr |
Nearby
Winter Storm Watches in Nevada, 2011Every winter storm watch in 2011
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.