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Special Weather Statement, NWS Elko, NV

July 22, 2012

NWS Elko, NV issued this special weather statement at Jul 22, 2012, 12:49 PM PDT. It was in force for 41 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 22, 2012, 12:49 PM PDT (19:49 UTC)
Expired: Jul 22, 2012, 1:30 PM PDT
In force: 41 min
Issued by: NWS Elko, NV

The radar

The Elko radar (KLRX), 183 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:52 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 7.8 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 2900 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 46 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 97 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

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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 22, 5:59 AM PDT, 6 hours 50 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 22, 5:59 AM PDT, 6 hours 50 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 22, 3:22 AM PDT, 9 hours 27 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV
322 AM PDT SUN JUL 22 2012

NVZ030-031-231030-
HUMBOLDT COUNTY-NORTHERN ELKO COUNTY-
322 AM PDT SUN JUL 22 2012

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHEAST
NEVADA AND NORTHWEST NEVADA.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT.

WINDS AND LOW HUMIDITIES WILL PRODUCE CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY.

NO SIGNIFICANT WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTERS ARE ASKED TO REPORT WEATHER PHENOMENA ACCORDING TO
STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURE.

NVZ036-037-040-041-231030-
NORTHERN LANDER COUNTY AND NORTHERN EUREKA COUNTY-
SOUTHERN LANDER COUNTY AND SOUTHERN EUREKA COUNTY-
NORTHWESTERN NYE COUNTY-NORTHEASTERN NYE COUNTY-
322 AM PDT SUN JUL 22 2012

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTH CENTRAL
NEVADA AND SOUTH CENTRAL NEVADA.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT.

ISOLATED TO SCATTERED DRY THUNDERSTORMS COMBINED WITH GUSTY OUTFLOW
WINDS WILL CREATE CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY.

ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH MID WEEK WITH GUSTY
OUTFLOW WINDS...BUT EXPECT WET THUNDERSTORMS...SO DO NOT ANTICIPATE
CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTERS ARE ASKED TO REPORT WEATHER PHENOMENA ACCORDING TO
STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURE.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 22, 12:49 PM PDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV
1249 PM PDT SUN JUL 22 2012

NVZ035-037-041-222030-
NORTHEASTERN NYE COUNTY NV-SOUTHERN LANDER COUNTY AND SOUTHERN EUREKA
COUNTY NV-WHITE PINE COUNTY NV-
1249 PM PDT SUN JUL 22 2012

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTHEASTERN EUREKA...NORTHERN
NYE AND EXTREME WESTERN WHITE PINE COUNTIES UNTIL 130 PM PDT...

AT 1240 PM PDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING
A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 20 MILES SOUTH OF PINTO SUMMIT.  THIS STORM
WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AROUND 10 MPH.

HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF PENNIES AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH ARE
EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM...ALONG WITH FREQUENT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  SOUTHWEST EUREKA COUNTY...
  SOUTHEAST WHITE PINE COUNTY...

&&

LAT...LON 3936 11611 3925 11578 3898 11612 3903 11624
TIME...MOT...LOC 1945Z 180DEG 0KT 3916 11606

LW

The office that day

Everything else NWS Elko, NV issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 21, 5:05 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN		40 min
Jul 21, 5:19 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN		41 min
Jul 21, 6:24 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN		36 min
Jul 21, 6:25 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN		65 min
Jul 21, 6:58 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN		47 min
Jul 22, 2:09 AM PDT	Red Flag Warning	LKN		19 hr
Jul 22, 1:24 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN	Lander	51 min
Jul 22, 2:47 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN	Elko	43 min
Jul 22, 4:59 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN		46 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Nevada, 2012 Every special weather statement 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.