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Flash Flood Watch 3, NWS Elko, NV

July 15, 20144 counties in Nevada

NWS Elko, NV issued this flash flood watch at Jul 15, 2014, 10:04 AM PDT for 4 counties in Nevada. It took effect at Jul 15, 2014, 11:00 AM PDT. It was in force for 9 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 15, 2014, 10:04 AM PDT (17:04 UTC)
In effect from: Jul 15, 2014, 11:00 AM PDT
Expired: Jul 15, 2014, 8:12 PM PDT
In force: 9 hr
Issued by: NWS Elko, NV
Flood severity: None

Counties Eureka County, NV, Lander County, NV, Nye County, NV, White Pine County, NV

The radar

The Elko radar (KLRX), 164 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:10 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

Reno, NV (KREV), launched 12:00Z, 5.1 hours before the alert went out and 176 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: 3034 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 6 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -19 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 58 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flash flood 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 flash flood watch went out at Jul 15, 2:12 AM PDT, 7 hours 52 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 15, 2:12 AM PDT, 7 hours 52 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 14, 5:10 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN		50 min
Jul 14, 5:33 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN	Eureka	27 min
Jul 14, 5:37 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LKN	Elko	35 min
Jul 14, 6:39 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN		36 min
Jul 14, 6:40 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN		35 min
Jul 15, 12:55 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN		35 min
Jul 15, 1:08 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN		22 min
Jul 15, 1:26 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN		34 min
Jul 15, 1:38 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN		22 min
Jul 15, 2:01 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN		29 min
Jul 15, 2:12 PM PDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LKN	Nye	3 hr
Jul 15, 2:16 PM PDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LKN	Nye	3 hr
Jul 15, 2:37 PM PDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LKN	Eureka	3 hr
Jul 15, 2:46 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN		59 min
Jul 15, 2:58 PM PDT	Flash Flood Warning	LKN	Nye	3 hr
Jul 15, 2:59 PM PDT	Flash Flood Warning	LKN	Nye	3 hr
Jul 15, 3:32 PM PDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LKN	Nye	3 hr
Jul 15, 3:42 PM PDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LKN	White Pine	3 hr
Jul 15, 4:35 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN		40 min
Jul 15, 4:56 PM PDT	Flash Flood Warning	LKN	Nye	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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.