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Special Weather Statement, NWS Elko, NV
NWS Elko, NV issued this special weather statement at Aug 3, 2014, 2:17 PM PDT for White Pine County, Nevada. It was in force for 118 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 3, 2014, 2:17 PM PDT (21:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 3, 2014, 4:15 PM PDT
- In force
- 118 min
- Issued by
- NWS Elko, NV
County White Pine County, NV
The radar
The Cedar City radar (KICX), 231 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:19 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Salt Lake City I, UT (KSLC), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 255 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
- 20 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -336 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2853 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 8 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -18 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 16 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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</html>What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at Aug 3, 3:40 AM PDT, 10 hours 37 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 3, 3:40 AM PDT, 10 hours 37 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Aug 3, 2:17 PM PDT, 0 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Elko, NV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Aug 2, 5:00 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | LKN | 30 min | |
| Aug 2, 5:13 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | LKN | 32 min | |
| Aug 2, 5:20 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | LKN | Lander | 25 min |
| Aug 2, 5:36 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LKN | Lander | 24 min |
| Aug 2, 5:46 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | LKN | 29 min | |
| Aug 2, 5:49 PM PDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LKN | Lander | 4 hr |
| Aug 2, 5:51 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | LKN | White Pine | 24 min |
| Aug 2, 6:03 PM PDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LKN | Lander | 3 hr |
| Aug 2, 6:06 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | LKN | 39 min | |
| Aug 2, 6:09 PM PDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LKN | Lander, Nye | 3 hr |
| Aug 2, 6:13 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | LKN | Eureka | 32 min |
| Aug 2, 6:20 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | LKN | White Pine | 40 min |
| Aug 2, 6:21 PM PDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LKN | White Pine | 3 hr |
| Aug 2, 6:30 PM PDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LKN | Nye | 3 hr |
| Aug 2, 7:06 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | LKN | 39 min | |
| Aug 2, 7:38 PM PDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LKN | Lander | 3 hr |
| Aug 2, 8:37 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | LKN | 38 min | |
| Aug 2, 9:28 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | LKN | 47 min | |
| Aug 2, 10:18 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | LKN | 42 min | |
| Aug 2, 10:32 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | LKN | 58 min | |
| Aug 2, 10:36 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | LKN | White Pine | 54 min |
| Aug 3, 2:16 PM PDT | Flash Flood Watch | LKN | Elko, Eureka, Humboldt, Lander, Nye, White Pine | 31 hr |
| Aug 3, 2:16 PM PDT | Flash Flood Watch | LKN | Elko, Eureka, Humboldt, Lander, White Pine | 54 hr |
| Aug 3, 2:21 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | LKN | White Pine | 114 min |
| Aug 3, 2:22 PM PDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LKN | Elko, Eureka, White Pine | 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.