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Winter Weather Advisory 1, NWS Elko, NV

January 21, 20215 counties in Nevada

NWS Elko, NV issued this winter weather advisory at Jan 21, 2021, 2:11 PM PST for 5 counties in Nevada. It took effect at Jan 22, 2021, 10:00 AM PST. It was in force for 36 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jan 21, 2021, 2:11 PM PST (22:11 UTC)
In effect from
Jan 22, 2021, 10:00 AM PST
Expired
Jan 23, 2021, 10:00 PM PST
In force
36 hr
Issued by
NWS Elko, NV

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

The radar

The Elko radar (KLRX), 133 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:12 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, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 188 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, Reno, NV at 12:00Z on 2021-01-21Temperature 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 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Reno, NV at 12:00Z on 2021-01-21The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 11 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
2386 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
11 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
14 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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.