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Special Weather Statement, NWS Elko, NV

August 8, 2014Elko County, Nevada

NWS Elko, NV issued this special weather statement at Aug 8, 2014, 2:36 PM PDT for Elko County, Nevada. It was in force for 24 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 8, 2014, 2:36 PM PDT (21:36 UTC)
Expired: Aug 8, 2014, 3:00 PM PDT
In force: 24 min
Issued by: NWS Elko, NV

County Elko County, NV

The nearest sounding before it

Elko, NV (KLKN), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 126 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: 35 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -228 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1839 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 55 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 72 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

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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 7, 3:02 PM PDT, 23 hours 34 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 7, 3:02 PM PDT, 23 hours 34 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
Aug 7, 5:41 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN		34 min
Aug 7, 6:16 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN	Elko	29 min
Aug 7, 7:02 PM PDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LKN	Elko	3 hr
Aug 8, 11:37 AM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN		53 min
Aug 8, 11:48 AM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN		27 min
Aug 8, 12:25 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN		35 min
Aug 8, 12:40 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN		35 min
Aug 8, 12:46 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN		29 min
Aug 8, 1:04 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN	Elko	26 min
Aug 8, 1:47 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN		28 min
Aug 8, 2:19 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN		26 min
Aug 8, 3:28 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN	Eureka	47 min
Aug 8, 4:24 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN	White Pine	36 min
Aug 8, 4:32 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN	Elko	28 min

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.