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Frost Advisory 4, NWS Elko, NV

September 7, 20194 counties in Nevada

NWS Elko, NV issued this frost advisory at Sep 7, 2019, 1:42 PM PDT for 4 counties in Nevada. It took effect at Sep 9, 2019, 12:00 AM PDT. It was in force for 8 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Sep 7, 2019, 1:42 PM PDT (20:42 UTC)
In effect from
Sep 9, 2019, 12:00 AM PDT
Expired
Sep 9, 2019, 7:59 AM PDT
In force
8 hr
Issued by
NWS Elko, NV

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 20:45 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

Salt Lake City I, UT (KSLC), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 345 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Salt Lake City I, UT at 12:00Z on 2019-09-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Salt Lake City I, UT at 12:00Z on 2019-09-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -18 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1915 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-18 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
124 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this frost advisory 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 frost advisory went out at Sep 6, 2:44 PM PDT, 22 hours 58 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 6, 2:44 PM PDT, 22 hours 58 minutes before
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Elko, NV issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 6, 5:05 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementLKN25 min
Sep 6, 5:24 PM PDTAreal Flood AdvisoryLKNWhite Pine2 hr
Sep 6, 5:33 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementLKN27 min
Sep 7, 3:29 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementLKN46 min

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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.