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Flash Flood Watch 3, NWS Elko, NV

May 27, 20184 counties in Nevada

NWS Elko, NV issued this flash flood watch at May 27, 2018, 2:14 AM PDT for 4 counties in Nevada. It took effect at May 27, 2018, 7:00 AM PDT. It was in force for 16 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 27, 2018, 2:14 AM PDT (09:14 UTC)
In effect from: May 27, 2018, 7:00 AM PDT
Expired: May 27, 2018, 11:00 PM PDT
In force: 16 hr
Issued by: NWS Elko, NV
Flood severity: None

Counties Elko County, NV, Eureka County, NV, Lander County, NV, White Pine County, NV

The radar

The Elko radar (KLRX), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:15 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 forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flash flood watch 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 flash flood watch went out at May 26, 2:17 PM PDT, 11 hours 57 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 26, 2:17 PM PDT, 11 hours 57 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
May 26, 5:03 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN		42 min
May 26, 5:07 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN	Lander	38 min
May 26, 5:15 PM PDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LKN	Elko, Humboldt	3 hr
May 27, 4:09 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN		66 min
May 27, 4:48 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN	Elko	72 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.