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Special Weather Statement, NWS Elko, NV

May 19, 2018Humboldt County, Nevada

NWS Elko, NV issued this special weather statement at May 19, 2018, 5:47 PM PDT for Humboldt County, Nevada. It was in force for 43 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 19, 2018, 5:47 PM PDT (00:47 UTC)
Expired: May 19, 2018, 6:30 PM PDT
In force: 43 min
Issued by: NWS Elko, NV

County Humboldt County, NV

The radar

The Elko radar (KLRX), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:50 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Reno, NV (KREV), launched 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 217 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 6 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -5 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2285 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -12 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 39 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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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 19, 6:08 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN	Humboldt	37 min
May 20, 10:23 AM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN		22 min
May 20, 12:35 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN	Eureka	40 min
May 20, 12:42 PM PDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LKN	Elko	3 hr
May 20, 1:18 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN		42 min
May 20, 1:26 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN		49 min
May 20, 1:28 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN		32 min
May 20, 2:12 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN		33 min
May 20, 2:36 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN		24 min
May 20, 3:15 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN		45 min
May 20, 3:41 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN	Elko	34 min
May 20, 4:10 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN	Elko	35 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Nevada, 2018 Every special weather statement in 2018

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.