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Special Weather Statement, NWS Elko, NV

August 15, 2012Lander County, Nevada

NWS Elko, NV issued this special weather statement at Aug 15, 2012, 3:51 PM PDT for Lander County, Nevada. It was in force for 24 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 15, 2012, 3:51 PM PDT (22:51 UTC)
Expired: Aug 15, 2012, 4:15 PM PDT
In force: 24 min
Issued by: NWS Elko, NV

County Lander County, NV

The nearest sounding before it

Reno, NV (KREV), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 127 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: 2583 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 14 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 121 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 15, 3:08 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN	Eureka	37 min
Aug 15, 3:32 PM PDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LKN	Lander	3 hr
Aug 15, 4:22 PM PDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LKN	Lander	3 hr

Nearby

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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.