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Red Flag Warning 14, NWS Elko, NV
NWS Elko, NV issued this red flag warning at Jul 20, 2020, 2:02 PM PDT for 6 counties in Nevada. It took effect at Jul 21, 2020, 11:00 AM 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
- Jul 20, 2020, 2:02 PM PDT (21:02 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jul 21, 2020, 11:00 AM PDT
- Expired
- Jul 21, 2020, 9:00 PM 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 20:59 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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
Reno, NV (KREV), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 164 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
- 2970 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 49 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 110 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this red flag 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 red flag warning went out at Jul 20, 3:33 AM PDT, 10 hours 29 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 20, 3:33 AM PDT, 10 hours 29 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Elko, NV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 20, 2:02 PM PDT | Fire Weather Watch | LKN | Elko, Eureka, Humboldt, Lander | 22 hr |
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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.