Alert archive / Nevada / High Wind Warnings in 2017
High Wind Warning 1, NWS Elko, NV
NWS Elko, NV issued this high wind warning at Jan 10, 2017, 7:36 PM PST for Elko County, Nevada. It was in force for 7 hr. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 10, 2017, 7:36 PM PST (03:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 11, 2017, 2:15 AM PST
- In force
- 7 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 03:36 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 11, 1:41 AM PST | NON-TSTM WND GST 80 | 8 E Jarbidge, NV | MESONET STATION POLE CREEK RAWS /POCN2/. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Elko, NV (KLKN), launched 00:00Z, 3.6 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
- 1415 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 75 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 371 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 707 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
683 WWUS75 KLKN 110336 NPWLKN URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV 736 PM PST TUE JAN 10 2017 NVZ033-111200- /O.NEW.KLKN.HW.W.0001.170111T0336Z-170111T1200Z/ SOUTHEASTERN ELKO COUNTY- 736 PM PST TUE JAN 10 2017 ...HIGH WIND WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 AM PST WEDNESDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ELKO HAS ISSUED A HIGH WIND WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 AM PST WEDNESDAY. * WINDS...SOUTHWEST 30 TO 40 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 60 MPH. * IMPACTS...MOTORISTS SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR STRONG WINDS AND HAZARDOUS DRIVING CONDITIONS. HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES ARE MOST SUSCEPTIBLE TO TIP-OVER FROM STRONG WINDS. THESE WINDS WILL AFFECT INTERSTATE 80 BETWEEN WEST WENDOVER AND SILVER ZONE PASS AND ALSO ALTERNATE US 93. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A HIGH WIND WARNING MEANS A HAZARDOUS HIGH WIND EVENT IS EXPECTED OR OCCURRING. SUSTAINED WIND SPEEDS OF AT LEAST 40 MPH OR GUSTS OF 58 MPH OR MORE CAN LEAD TO PROPERTY DAMAGE. && $$
1 follow-up statement
512 WWUS75 KLKN 111015 NPWLKN URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV 215 AM PST WED JAN 11 2017 NVZ033-111115- /O.CAN.KLKN.HW.W.0001.000000T0000Z-170111T1200Z/ SOUTHEASTERN ELKO COUNTY- 215 AM PST WED JAN 11 2017 ...HIGH WIND WARNING IS CANCELLED... STRONG WINDS ARE NO LONGER A THREAT ACROSS EASTERN ELKO COUNTY AND THE WENDOVER AREA. THUS THE WARNING IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT. $$ LW
The office that day
Everything else NWS Elko, NV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 11, 6:22 AM PST | Special Weather Statement | LKN | Elko | 23 min |
| Jan 11, 2:03 PM PST | Special Weather Statement | LKN | 117 min |
Nearby
High Wind Warnings in Nevada, 2017Every high wind warning in 2017
Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.