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Special Weather Statement, NWS Elko, NV

August 9, 2012

NWS Elko, NV issued this special weather statement at Aug 9, 2012, 6:10 PM PDT. It was in force for 35 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: Aug 9, 2012, 6:10 PM PDT (01:10 UTC)
Expired: Aug 9, 2012, 6:45 PM PDT
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS Elko, NV

The nearest sounding before it

Reno, NV (KREV), launched 00:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 313 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: 346 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -49 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 3541 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 42 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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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 10, 12:49 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN		26 min
Aug 10, 1:32 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN		28 min
Aug 10, 2:08 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN		37 min
Aug 10, 2:29 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN	White Pine	31 min
Aug 10, 2:48 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN		27 min
Aug 10, 2:59 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN		61 min
Aug 10, 3:10 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN		50 min
Aug 10, 3:18 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN		42 min
Aug 10, 3:52 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN		38 min
Aug 10, 4:03 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN	White Pine	42 min
Aug 10, 4:10 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN		50 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.