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Fire Weather Watch 5, NWS Elko, NV

June 21, 2021Elko County, Eureka County, Lander County, Nevada

NWS Elko, NV issued this fire weather watch at Jun 21, 2021, 2:04 PM PDT for Elko County, Eureka County, Lander County, Nevada. It took effect at Jun 23, 2021, 11:00 AM PDT. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 21, 2021, 2:04 PM PDT (21:04 UTC)
In effect from: Jun 23, 2021, 11:00 AM PDT
Expired: Jun 22, 2021, 2:05 PM PDT
In force
Issued by: NWS Elko, NV

Counties Elko County, NV, Eureka County, NV, Lander County, NV

The radar

The Elko radar (KLRX), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:02 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

Boise Airport, ID (KBOI), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 358 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 2549 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -9 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 66 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 fire weather 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 fire weather watch went out at Jun 20, 3:09 PM PDT, 22 hours 55 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 20, 3:09 PM PDT, 22 hours 55 minutes before

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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.