Alert archive / Nevada / Wind Advisories in 2016
Wind Advisory 19, NWS Elko, NV
NWS Elko, NV issued this wind advisory at May 5, 2016, 2:13 AM PDT for 4 counties in Nevada. It took effect at May 5, 2016, 11:00 AM PDT. It was in force for 9 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 5, 2016, 2:13 AM PDT (09:13 UTC)
- In effect from
- May 5, 2016, 11:00 AM PDT
- Expired
- May 5, 2016, 8:00 PM PDT
- In force
- 9 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Elko, NV
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 09:14 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 00:00Z, 9.2 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2583 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 14 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 127 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
664 WWUS75 KLKN 050913 NPWLKN URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV 213 AM PDT THU MAY 5 2016 NVZ035-037-041-060300- /O.NEW.KLKN.WI.Y.0019.160505T1800Z-160506T0300Z/ WHITE PINE COUNTY- SOUTHERN LANDER COUNTY AND SOUTHERN EUREKA COUNTY- NORTHEASTERN NYE COUNTY- INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...ELY...MCGILL...CONNORS PASS... GREAT BASIN NATIONAL PARK...AUSTIN...AUSTIN SUMMIT...EUREKA... DIAMOND VALLEY...PINTO SUMMIT...DUCKWATER...CURRANT SUMMIT 213 AM PDT THU MAY 5 2016 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM THIS MORNING TO 8 PM PDT THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ELKO HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY... WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM THIS MORNING TO 8 PM PDT THIS EVENING. * WINDS...SOUTH 20 TO 30 MPH GUSTING TO AROUND 50 MPH. * TIMING...LATE MORNING THROUGH EARLY EVENING. * IMPACTS...MOTORISTS SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR STRONG WINDS AND HAZARDOUS DRIVING CONDITIONS, ESPECIALLY WHEN DRIVING HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT SUSTAINED WINDS OF 30 MPH WITH GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 45 MPH ARE EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT, ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. && $$ LW
2 follow-up statements
754 WWUS75 KLKN 052124 NPWLKN URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV 224 PM PDT THU MAY 5 2016 NVZ035-037-041-060300- /O.CON.KLKN.WI.Y.0019.000000T0000Z-160506T0300Z/ WHITE PINE COUNTY- SOUTHERN LANDER COUNTY AND SOUTHERN EUREKA COUNTY- NORTHEASTERN NYE COUNTY- INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...ELY...MCGILL...CONNORS PASS... GREAT BASIN NATIONAL PARK...AUSTIN...AUSTIN SUMMIT...EUREKA... DIAMOND VALLEY...PINTO SUMMIT...DUCKWATER...CURRANT SUMMIT 224 PM PDT THU MAY 5 2016 ...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM PDT THIS EVENING... * WINDS...SOUTH 25 TO 35 MPH GUSTING TO AROUND 50 MPH. * IMPACTS...MOTORISTS SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR STRONG WINDS AND HAZARDOUS DRIVING CONDITIONS...ESPECIALLY WHEN DRIVING HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT SUSTAINED WINDS OF 30 MPH WITH GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 45 MPH ARE EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT... ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. && $$
567 WWUS75 KLKN 060249 NPWLKN URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV 749 PM PDT THU MAY 5 2016 NVZ035-037-041-060400- /O.EXP.KLKN.WI.Y.0019.000000T0000Z-160506T0300Z/ WHITE PINE COUNTY- SOUTHERN LANDER COUNTY AND SOUTHERN EUREKA COUNTY- NORTHEASTERN NYE COUNTY- INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...ELY...MCGILL...CONNORS PASS... GREAT BASIN NATIONAL PARK...AUSTIN...AUSTIN SUMMIT...EUREKA... DIAMOND VALLEY...PINTO SUMMIT...DUCKWATER...CURRANT SUMMIT 749 PM PDT THU MAY 5 2016 ...WIND ADVISORY WILL EXPIRE AT 8 PM PDT THIS EVENING... WINDS HAVE SUBSIDED THIS EVENING AND THE WIND ADVISORY WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. $$ LW
Nearby
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.