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Freeze Warning 1, NWS Elko, NV

June 7, 20206 counties in Nevada

NWS Elko, NV issued this freeze warning at Jun 7, 2020, 9:09 AM PDT for 6 counties in Nevada. It took effect at Jun 7, 2020, 11:00 PM PDT. It was in force for 10 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 7, 2020, 9:09 AM PDT (16:09 UTC)
In effect from
Jun 7, 2020, 11:00 PM PDT
Expired
Jun 8, 2020, 9:00 AM PDT
In force
10 hr
Issued by
NWS Elko, NV

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

The radar

The Elko radar (KLRX), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:09 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, 4.2 hours before the alert went out and 388 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 2020-06-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 2020-06-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 127 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
1485 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
127 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
193 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 freeze warning 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 freeze warning went out at Jun 6, 3:45 PM PDT, 17 hours 24 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 6, 3:45 PM PDT, 17 hours 24 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 6, 5:09 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementLKNHumboldt36 min
Jun 6, 5:54 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementLKN36 min
Jun 6, 6:37 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementLKN38 min
Jun 7, 3:01 AM PDTWind AdvisoryLKNNye20 hr
Jun 7, 9:09 AM PDTHard Freeze WarningLKNEureka, Lander, White Pine24 hr
Jun 7, 4:48 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementLKN42 min

Nearby

Freeze Warnings in Nevada, 2020Every freeze warning in 2020

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.