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Special Weather Statement, NWS Elko, NV
NWS Elko, NV issued this special weather statement at Jul 5, 2012, 3:07 PM PDT. It was in force for 23 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 5, 2012, 3:07 PM PDT (22:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 5, 2012, 3:30 PM PDT
- In force
- 23 min
- Issued by
- NWS Elko, NV
The radar
The Elko radar (KLRX), 194 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:09 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Elko, NV (KLKN), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 112 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
- 1429 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -41 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -17 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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</html>What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at Jul 5, 3:50 AM PDT, 11 hours 17 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 5, 3:50 AM PDT, 11 hours 17 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Jul 5, 3:05 PM PDT, 2 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV 305 PM PDT THU JUL 5 2012 NVZ035-037-041-052245- NORTHEASTERN NYE COUNTY NV-SOUTHERN LANDER COUNTY AND SOUTHERN EUREKA COUNTY NV-WHITE PINE COUNTY NV- 305 PM PDT THU JUL 5 2012 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTHEASTERN EUREKA... NORTHEASTERN NYE AND WESTERN WHITE PINE COUNTIES UNTIL 345 PM PDT... AT 300 PM PDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 21 MILES SOUTHEAST OF HICKISON SUMMIT TO 9 MILES SOUTHEAST OF DUCKWATER...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH. HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF PENNIES AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS...ALONG WITH FREQUENT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... RURAL SOUTHERN EUREKA COUNTY... RURAL NORTHERN NYE COUNTY... RURAL NORTHEASTERN NYE COUNTY... RURAL WESTERN WHITE PINE COUNTY... IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA...TAKE SHELTER IN A STURDY BUILDING. && LAT...LON 3952 11619 3885 11532 3872 11562 3923 11651 TIME...MOT...LOC 2205Z 240DEG 7KT 3923 11644 3884 11557 PJS
Special weather statement, Jul 5, 3:07 PM PDT, 0 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV 307 PM PDT THU JUL 5 2012 NVZ031-052230- NORTHERN ELKO COUNTY NV- 307 PM PDT THU JUL 5 2012 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHERN ELKO COUNTY UNTIL 330 PM PDT... AT 305 PM PDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF GIBBS RANCH...MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH. HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF PENNIES AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... RURAL NORTHERN ELKO COUNTY... THIS STORM MAY INTENSIFY...SO BE CERTAIN TO MONITOR LOCAL RADIO AND TV STATIONS...AS WELL AS LOCAL CABLE TV OUTLETS...FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. && LAT...LON 4187 11474 4155 11482 4159 11513 4177 11505 TIME...MOT...LOC 2206Z 291DEG 7KT 4164 11505 PJS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Elko, NV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 5, 3:05 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | LKN | 40 min | |
| Jul 5, 3:32 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | LKN | Eureka | 28 min |
| Jul 5, 3:35 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | LKN | 40 min | |
| Jul 5, 3:47 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | LKN | 28 min | |
| Jul 5, 4:13 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | LKN | 32 min | |
| Jul 5, 4:30 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | LKN | Eureka | 30 min |
| Jul 5, 4:43 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | LKN | 32 min | |
| Jul 5, 4:47 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | LKN | 28 min |
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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.