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Flash Flood Watch 2, NWS Elko, NV

July 11, 2014Elko County, White Pine County, Nevada

NWS Elko, NV issued this flash flood watch at Jul 11, 2014, 1:24 PM PDT for Elko County, White Pine County, Nevada. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 11, 2014, 1:24 PM PDT (20:24 UTC)
Expired
Jul 11, 2014, 8:12 PM PDT
In force
7 hr
Issued by
NWS Elko, NV
Flood severity
None

Counties Elko County, NV, White Pine County, NV

The radar

The Elko radar (KLRX), 150 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:26 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 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 101 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Elko, NV at 12:00Z on 2014-07-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Elko, NV at 12:00Z on 2014-07-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 29 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
2136 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
29 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-11 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 11, 1:18 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementLKN42 min
Jul 11, 1:36 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementLKN24 min
Jul 11, 1:57 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementLKNElko48 min
Jul 11, 3:00 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementLKN30 min
Jul 11, 3:33 PM PDTAreal Flood AdvisoryLKNElko3 hr
Jul 11, 4:29 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementLKN46 min
Jul 11, 4:48 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementLKN42 min

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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.