Alert archive / Nevada / Wind Advisories in 2012
Wind Advisory 15, NWS Elko, NV
NWS Elko, NV issued this wind advisory at Mar 26, 2012, 2:48 AM PDT for Elko County, Nevada. It took effect at Mar 26, 2012, 9:00 AM PDT. It was in force for 9 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 26, 2012, 2:48 AM PDT (09:48 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 26, 2012, 9:00 AM PDT
- Expired
- Mar 26, 2012, 6:02 PM PDT
- In force
- 9 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Elko, NV
County Elko County, NV
The radar
The Elko radar (KLRX), 129 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:47 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
Elko, NV (KLKN), launched 00:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 102 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
- 6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3146 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 35 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 40 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
306 WWUS75 KLKN 260948 NPWLKN URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV 248 AM PDT MON MAR 26 2012 ...GUSTY WINDS EXPECTED LATER TODAY... .A PACIFIC STORM SYSTEM WILL MOVE ACROSS THE REGION THIS MORNING. AS THE SYSTEM MOVES OUT LATER TODAY...GUSTY WINDS WILL DEVELOP IN PARTS OF ELKO COUNTY. NVZ033-262200- /O.NEW.KLKN.WI.Y.0015.120326T1600Z-120327T0200Z/ EXTREME EASTERN ELKO COUNTY- INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...SILVER ZONE PASS... WEST WENDOVER 248 AM PDT MON MAR 26 2012 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 9 AM THIS MORNING TO 7 PM PDT THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ELKO HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY... WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 9 AM THIS MORNING TO 7 PM PDT THIS EVENING. * WINDS: WEST 20 TO 30 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 45 MPH. * TIMING: LATE THIS MORNING TO EARLY THIS EVENING. * LOCATIONS INCLUDE: SILVER ZONE PASS...WEST WENDOVER * IMPACTS: GUSTY WINDS WILL MAKE DRIVING HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES DIFFICULT...PARTICULARLY ALONG NORTH-SOUTH HIGHWAYS SUCH AS ALTERNATE U. S. HIGHWAY 93. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT SUSTAINED WINDS OF 30 MPH WITH GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 45 MPH ARE EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. && $$ RCM
2 follow-up statements
511 WWUS75 KLKN 262102 NPWLKN URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV 202 PM PDT MON MAR 26 2012 NVZ033-270200- /O.CON.KLKN.WI.Y.0015.000000T0000Z-120327T0200Z/ EXTREME EASTERN ELKO COUNTY- INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...SILVER ZONE PASS... WEST WENDOVER 202 PM PDT MON MAR 26 2012 ...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM PDT THIS EVENING... A WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM PDT THIS EVENING. * WINDS: SOUTHWEST TO WEST 20 TO 30 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 45 MPH. * TIMING: THROUGH EARLY THIS EVENING. * LOCATIONS INCLUDE: SILVER ZONE PASS...WEST WENDOVER * IMPACTS: GUSTY WINDS WILL MAKE DRIVING HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES DIFFICULT...PARTICULARLY ALONG NORTH-SOUTH HIGHWAYS SUCH AS ALTERNATE U. S. HIGHWAY 93. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT SUSTAINED WINDS OF 30 MPH WITH GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 45 MPH ARE EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. && $$
538 WWUS75 KLKN 270102 NPWLKN URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV 602 PM PDT MON MAR 26 2012 NVZ033-270215- /O.CAN.KLKN.WI.Y.0015.000000T0000Z-120327T0200Z/ EXTREME EASTERN ELKO COUNTY- INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...SILVER ZONE PASS... WEST WENDOVER 602 PM PDT MON MAR 26 2012 ...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ELKO HAS CANCELLED THE WIND ADVISORY. WINDS HAVE DIMINISHED BELOW ADVISORY CRITERIA AND SHOULD NOT RE- INTENSIFY. THEREFORE THE WIND ADVISORY IS BEING CANCELLED AT THIS TIME. $$ RCM
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.