Alert archive / Nevada / Wind Advisories in 2016
Wind Advisory 28, NWS Elko, NV
NWS Elko, NV issued this wind advisory at Oct 2, 2016, 11:26 PM PDT for Elko County, Nevada. It was in force for 18 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 2, 2016, 11:26 PM PDT (06:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 3, 2016, 5:00 PM PDT
- In force
- 18 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Elko, NV
County Elko County, NV
The radar
The Elko radar (KLRX), 129 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:27 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
Elko, NV (KLKN), launched 00:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 102 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
- 3668 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 60 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 11 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 165 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
983 WWUS75 KLKN 030626 NPWLKN URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV 1126 PM PDT SUN OCT 2 2016 NVZ035-037-040-041-030730- /O.CAN.KLKN.WI.Y.0027.000000T0000Z-161003T0700Z/ WHITE PINE COUNTY- SOUTHERN LANDER COUNTY AND SOUTHERN EUREKA COUNTY- NORTHWESTERN NYE COUNTY-NORTHEASTERN NYE COUNTY- 1126 PM PDT SUN OCT 2 2016 ...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... WINDS HAVE DIMINISHED THIS EVENING AND THE ADVISORY IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT. $$ NVZ033-031800- /O.NEW.KLKN.WI.Y.0028.161003T0626Z-161003T1800Z/ SOUTHEASTERN ELKO COUNTY- INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...SILVER ZONE PASS... WEST WENDOVER 1126 PM PDT SUN OCT 2 2016 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 AM PDT MONDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ELKO HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY... WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 AM PDT MONDAY. * WINDS...NORTHWEST 25 TO 35 MPH GUSTING AROUND 55 MPH. * TIMING...THROUGH EARLY MONDAY MORNING * IMPACTS...MOTORISTS SHOULD EXERCISE SPECIAL CAUTION WHILE DRIVING ALONG INTERSTATE 80 NEAR WENDOVER. BE ALERT TO SUDDEN GUSTS OF WIND WHICH MAY CAUSE YOU TO LOSE CONTROL OF YOUR VEHICLE. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT SUSTAINED WINDS OF 30 MPH WITH GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 45 MPH ARE EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT, ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. && $$ LW
1 follow-up statement
116 WWUS75 KLKN 030951 NPWLKN URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV 251 AM PDT MON OCT 3 2016 NVZ031-040000- /O.EXB.KLKN.WI.Y.0028.161003T1800Z-161004T0000Z/ NORTHERN ELKO COUNTY- INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...JACKPOT...WILDHORSE...OWYHEE 251 AM PDT MON OCT 3 2016 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM THIS MORNING TO 5 PM PDT THIS AFTERNOON... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ELKO HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY... WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM THIS MORNING TO 5 PM PDT THIS AFTERNOON. * WINDS...WEST TO NORTHWEST 25 TO 35 MPH GUSTING AROUND 55 MPH. * TIMING...LATE MORNING THROUGH THE AFTERNOON. * IMPACTS...MOTORISTS SHOULD EXERCISE SPECIAL CAUTION WHILE DRIVING ALONG HIGHWAY 93 IN NORTHERN ELKO COUNTY. BE ALERT TO SUDDEN GUSTS OF WIND WHICH MAY CAUSE YOU TO LOSE CONTROL OF YOUR VEHICLE. 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. && $$ NVZ033-040000- /O.EXT.KLKN.WI.Y.0028.000000T0000Z-161004T0000Z/ SOUTHEASTERN ELKO COUNTY- INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...SILVER ZONE PASS... WEST WENDOVER 251 AM PDT MON OCT 3 2016 ...WIND ADVISORY NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM PDT THIS AFTERNOON... * WINDS...NORTHWEST 25 TO 35 MPH GUSTING AROUND 55 MPH. * TIMING...THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON. * IMPACTS...MOTORISTS SHOULD EXERCISE SPECIAL CAUTION WHILE DRIVING ALONG INTERSTATE 80 NEAR WENDOVER. BE ALERT TO SUDDEN GUSTS OF WIND WHICH MAY CAUSE YOU TO LOSE CONTROL OF YOUR VEHICLE. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT SUSTAINED WINDS OF 30 MPH WITH GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 45 MPH ARE EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT... ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. && $$ LW
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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.