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Red Flag Warning 1, NWS Elko, NV

June 11, 2022Nye County, Nevada

NWS Elko, NV issued this red flag warning at Jun 11, 2022, 1:56 AM PDT for Nye County, Nevada. It took effect at Jun 12, 2022, 11:00 AM PDT. It was in force for 9 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

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The facts

Issued
Jun 11, 2022, 1:56 AM PDT (08:56 UTC)
In effect from
Jun 12, 2022, 11:00 AM PDT
Expired
Jun 12, 2022, 8:00 PM PDT
In force
9 hr
Issued by
NWS Elko, NV

County Nye County, NV

The nearest sounding before it

Las Vegas, NV (KVEF), launched 00:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 203 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, Las Vegas, NV at 00:00Z on 2022-06-11Temperature 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 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Las Vegas, NV at 00:00Z on 2022-06-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -22 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
5172 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-22 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
28 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 11, 1:55 AM PDTWind AdvisoryLKNElko, Eureka, Humboldt, Lander, Nye, White Pine42 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.