Alert archive / Nevada / Wind Advisories in 2012
Wind Advisory 21, NWS Elko, NV
NWS Elko, NV issued this wind advisory at Apr 30, 2012, 2:34 AM PDT for Elko County, Nevada. It took effect at Apr 30, 2012, 12:00 PM PDT. It was in force for 9 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 30, 2012, 2:34 AM PDT (09:34 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 30, 2012, 12:00 PM PDT
- Expired
- Apr 30, 2012, 8:36 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 09:37 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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, 9.6 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2791 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -24 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -9 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
812 WWUS75 KLKN 300934 NPWLKN URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV 234 AM PDT MON APR 30 2012 ...GUSTY WINDS EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING... .A PACIFIC STORM SYSTEM WILL CROSS THE REGION LATER TODAY AND TONIGHT. THE STORM WILL GENERATE GUSTY WINDS ACROSS PARTS OF THE REGION THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING. NVZ031-302145- /O.NEW.KLKN.WI.Y.0021.120430T1900Z-120501T0600Z/ NORTHERN ELKO COUNTY- INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...JACKPOT...WILDHORSE...OWYHEE 234 AM PDT MON APR 30 2012 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 11 PM PDT THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ELKO HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY... WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 11 PM PDT THIS EVENING. * WINDS: WEST-SOUTHWEST 25 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 50 MPH. * TIMING: MID AFTERNOON THROUGH EARLY EVENING * LOCATIONS INCLUDE: JACKPOT...WILDHORSE...OWYHEE * IMPACTS: WINDS WILL MAKE CONTROLLING HIGH-PROFILE VEHICLES DIFFICULT...PARTICULARLY FOR NORTH-SOUTH HIGHWAYS SUCH AS U.S. HIGHWAY 93 AND NEVADA STATE HIGHWAY 225. 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. && $$ RCM
2 follow-up statements
518 WWUS75 KLKN 302110 NPWLKN URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV 210 PM PDT MON APR 30 2012 ...STRONG GUSTY WEST WINDS THROUGH THIS EVENING... .STRONG SOUTHWEST WINDS THIS AFTERNOON WILL BECOME MORE WESTERLY THIS EVENING AHEAD OF AN APPROACHING COLD FRONT. WINDS WILL REMAIN STRONG THROUGH THE EVENING HOURS BEFORE BEGINNING TO DIMINISH AROUND MIDNIGHT. NVZ031-010600- /O.CON.KLKN.WI.Y.0021.000000T0000Z-120501T0600Z/ NORTHERN ELKO COUNTY- INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...JACKPOT...WILDHORSE...OWYHEE 210 PM PDT MON APR 30 2012 ...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM PDT THIS EVENING... A WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM PDT THIS EVENING. * WINDS: WEST-SOUTHWEST 25 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 55 MPH. * TIMING: STRONGEST WINDS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH 11 PM BEFORE DIMINISHING LATE THIS EVENING. * LOCATIONS INCLUDE: JACKPOT...WILDHORSE...OWYHEE. * IMPACTS: WINDS WILL MAKE CONTROLLING HIGH-PROFILE VEHICLES DIFFICULT...PARTICULARLY FOR NORTH-SOUTH HIGHWAYS SUCH AS U.S. HIGHWAY 93 AND NEVADA STATE HIGHWAY 225. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT SUSTAINED WINDS OF 30 MPH WITH GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 45 MPH ARE EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. && $$ TURNER
734 WWUS75 KLKN 010336 NPWLKN URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV 836 PM PDT MON APR 30 2012 NVZ031-010445- /O.CAN.KLKN.WI.Y.0021.000000T0000Z-120501T0600Z/ NORTHERN ELKO COUNTY- INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...JACKPOT...WILDHORSE...OWYHEE 836 PM PDT MON APR 30 2012 ...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ELKO HAS CANCELLED THE WIND ADVISORY. WINDS ARE DECREASING ACROSS THE AREA. WHILE A FEW GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH MAY STILL OCCUR...WIND ADVISORY CRITERIA GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 45 MPH ARE NO LONGER EXPECTED. $$ RCM
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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.