Alert archive / Nevada / Freeze Watches in 2012
Freeze Watch 2, NWS Elko, NV
NWS Elko, NV issued this freeze watch at May 27, 2012, 5:55 AM PDT for 5 counties in Nevada. It took effect at May 27, 2012, 9:00 PM PDT. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 27, 2012, 5:55 AM PDT (12:55 UTC)
- In effect from
- May 27, 2012, 9:00 PM PDT
- Expired
- May 27, 2012, 2:47 PM PDT
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Elko, NV
Counties Elko County, NV, Eureka County, NV, Lander County, NV, Nye County, NV, White Pine County, NV
The radar
The Elko radar (KLRX), 133 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:54 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, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 188 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
- 3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -35 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1128 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 17 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 80 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this freeze 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 freeze watch went out at May 27, 2:00 AM PDT, 3 hours 55 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 27, 2:00 AM PDT, 3 hours 55 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, May 26, 8:55 PM PDT, 9 hours before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV 855 PM PDT SAT MAY 26 2012 NVZ030-031-033>041-271045- HUMBOLDT COUNTY-NORTHERN ELKO COUNTY-SOUTHEASTERN ELKO COUNTY- RUBY MOUNTAINS/EAST HUMBOLDT RANGE-WHITE PINE COUNTY- NORTHERN LANDER COUNTY AND NORTHERN EUREKA COUNTY- SOUTHERN LANDER COUNTY AND SOUTHERN EUREKA COUNTY- SOUTHWESTERN ELKO COUNTY-SOUTH CENTRAL ELKO COUNTY- NORTHWESTERN NYE COUNTY-NORTHEASTERN NYE COUNTY- 855 PM PDT SAT MAY 26 2012 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF EAST CENTRAL NEVADA...NORTH CENTRAL NEVADA...NORTHEAST NEVADA...NORTHWEST NEVADA AND SOUTH CENTRAL NEVADA. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. A LARGE AREA OF LOW PRESSURE AND GOOD MOISTURE ARE BOTH HELPING TO BRING SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS TO PORTIONS OF NORTHERN AND EASTERN NEVADA THIS EVENING. SNOW LEVELS ARE GOING TO REMAIN AROUND 6500 TO 7000 FEET THIS EVENING...ESPECIALLY IN ELKO COUNTY...BUT ANY CONVECTIVE TYPE SHOWERS COULD LOWER THE SNOW LEVEL TEMPORARILY SOME 500 TO 1000 FEET. MINOR ACCUMULATIONS ON MOUNTAIN PASSES ARE POSSIBLE...BUT NO ACCUMULATIONS IN THE VALLEYS ARE EXPECTED. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL DECREASE IN AREAL COVERAGE SUNDAY WITH THE ACTIVITY COMING TO AN END SUNDAY EVENING. TEMPERATURES WILL BE BELOW NORMAL SUNDAY...BUT EXPECT A QUICK WARM UP MONDAY AND TUESDAY WITH HIGHS GOING BACK UP INTO THE 80S IN THE VALLEYS FOR THE MID-WEEK PORTION. .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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 10:56 PM PDT | Winter Weather Advisory | LKN | Elko | 7 hr |
| May 27, 2:47 PM PDT | Frost Advisory | LKN | Elko, Eureka, Lander, Nye, White Pine | 17 hr |
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.