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Flash Flood Watch 1, NWS Elko, NV

October 27, 2016Elko County, Humboldt County, Nevada

NWS Elko, NV issued this flash flood watch at Oct 27, 2016, 2:31 PM PDT for Elko County, Humboldt County, Nevada. It took effect at Oct 28, 2016, 12:00 AM PDT. It was in force for 20 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Oct 27, 2016, 2:31 PM PDT (21:31 UTC)
In effect from
Oct 28, 2016, 12:00 AM PDT
Expired
Oct 28, 2016, 8:00 PM PDT
In force
20 hr
Issued by
NWS Elko, NV
Flood severity
None

Counties Elko County, NV, Humboldt County, NV

The radar

The Elko radar (KLRX), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:32 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

Reno, NV (KREV), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 227 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, Reno, NV at 12:00Z on 2016-10-27Temperature 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 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Reno, NV at 12:00Z on 2016-10-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 34 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
2316 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
62 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
34 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
115 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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.