Alert archive / Nevada / Blowing Dust Advisories in 2012
Blowing Dust Advisory 1, NWS Elko, NV
NWS Elko, NV issued this blowing dust advisory at Mar 31, 2012, 2:55 PM PDT for Eureka County, Humboldt County, Lander County, Nevada. It took effect at Mar 31, 2012, 3:00 PM PDT. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 31, 2012, 2:55 PM PDT (21:55 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 31, 2012, 3:00 PM PDT
- Expired
- Mar 31, 2012, 11:00 PM PDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Elko, NV
Counties Eureka County, NV, Humboldt County, NV, Lander County, NV
The radar
The Elko radar (KLRX), 44 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:58 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 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 132 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
- 1847 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 162 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 438 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
Nearby
Blowing Dust Advisories in Nevada, 2012Every blowing dust advisory in 2012
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.