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Winter Storm Watch 1, NWS Elko, NV
NWS Elko, NV issued this winter storm watch at Jan 19, 2012, 2:33 PM PST for 4 counties in Nevada. It took effect at Jan 20, 2012, 10:00 PM PST. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 19, 2012, 2:33 PM PST (22:33 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 20, 2012, 10:00 PM PST
- Expired
- Jan 20, 2012, 3:18 PM PST
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Elko, NV
Counties Elko County, NV, Eureka County, NV, Lander County, NV, White Pine County, NV
The radar
The Elko radar (KLRX), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:35 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
Salt Lake City I, UT (KSLC), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 345 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
- 1251 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 77 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 203 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 412 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this winter storm watch 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 winter storm watch went out at Jan 18, 3:22 PM PST, 23 hours 11 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 18, 3:22 PM PST, 23 hours 11 minutes before
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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.