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Winter Weather Advisory 4, NWS Elko, NV
NWS Elko, NV issued this winter weather advisory at Jan 28, 2021, 2:19 AM PST for 5 counties in Nevada. It took effect at Jan 28, 2021, 4:00 PM PST. It was in force for 28 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 28, 2021, 2:19 AM PST (10:19 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 28, 2021, 4:00 PM PST
- Expired
- Jan 29, 2021, 8:21 PM PST
- In force
- 28 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 10:25 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 00:00Z, 10.3 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 604 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 83 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 105 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 79 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Elko, NV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 28, 2:19 AM PST | Winter Storm Warning | LKN | Nye | 32 hr |
Nearby
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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.