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High Wind Watch 4, NWS Elko, NV

June 16, 2022White Pine County, Nevada

NWS Elko, NV issued this high wind watch at Jun 16, 2022, 1:34 PM PDT for White Pine County, Nevada. It took effect at Jun 18, 2022, 10:00 AM PDT. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 16, 2022, 1:34 PM PDT (20:34 UTC)
In effect from
Jun 18, 2022, 10:00 AM PDT
Expired
Jun 17, 2022, 3:03 PM PDT
In force
Issued by
NWS Elko, NV

County White Pine County, NV

The radar

The Elko radar (KLRX), 217 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:38 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

Elko, NV (KLKN), launched 12:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 170 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, Elko, NV at 12:00Z on 2022-06-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Elko, NV at 12:00Z on 2022-06-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 182 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
5731 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
182 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
235 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 high wind 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 high wind watch went out at Jun 16, 11:30 AM PDT, 2 hours 4 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 16, 11:30 AM PDT, 2 hours 4 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 16, 10:35 AM PDTHigh Wind WarningLKNElko, Eureka, Lander, Nye, White Pine36 hr
Jun 16, 10:35 AM PDTWind AdvisoryLKNElko, Eureka, Lander36 hr
Jun 16, 2:36 PM PDTBlowing Dust AdvisoryLKNHumboldt13 hr
Jun 16, 2:36 PM PDTWind AdvisoryLKNElko, Eureka, Lander, Nye, White Pine7 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.