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Red Flag Warning 10, NWS Elko, NV
NWS Elko, NV issued this red flag warning at Jul 13, 2022, 2:46 PM PDT for Elko County, Nye County, White Pine County, Nevada. It took effect at Jul 14, 2022, 12:00 PM PDT. It was in force for 11 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 13, 2022, 2:46 PM PDT (21:46 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jul 14, 2022, 12:00 PM PDT
- Expired
- Jul 14, 2022, 10:42 PM PDT
- In force
- 11 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Elko, NV
Counties Elko County, NV, Nye County, NV, White Pine County, NV
The radar
The Elko radar (KLRX), 169 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:43 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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, 9.8 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
- 56 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -489 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 4766 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 91 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 142 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this red flag warning 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 red flag warning went out at Jul 13, 2:34 AM PDT, 12 hours 12 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 13, 2:34 AM PDT, 12 hours 12 minutes before
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Local storm report, Jul 13, 11:18 AM PDT, 3 hours 28 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV
1118 AM PDT WED JUL 13 2022
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0406 PM WILDFIRE 7 W RUBY VALLEY 40.80N 115.32W
07/12/2022 ELKO NV FIRE DEPT/RESCUE
RABBIT WILDFIRE, ELKO COUNTY.
0445 PM WILDFIRE 13 SSE RUBY LAKE 40.02N 115.41W
07/12/2022 WHITE PINE NV FIRE DEPT/RESCUE
BLUE JAY WILDFIRE, WHITE PINE COUNTY.
0516 PM WILDFIRE 8 SSE RUBY VALLEY 40.68N 115.13W
07/12/2022 ELKO NV FIRE DEPT/RESCUE
FRANKLIN WILDFIRE, ELKO COUNTY.
0619 PM WILDFIRE 4 ENE PINE VALLEY 40.43N 116.04W
07/12/2022 ELKO NV FIRE DEPT/RESCUE
BLACK ROCK WILDFIRE, ELKO COUNTY.
0636 PM WILDFIRE 15 SE LUND 38.70N 114.82W
07/12/2022 WHITE PINE NV FIRE DEPT/RESCUE
BRUSH SPRING WILDFIRE, WHITE PINE COUNTY.
0653 PM WILDFIRE 8 WNW JIGGS 40.48N 115.80W
07/12/2022 ELKO NV FIRE DEPT/RESCUE
CEDAR RIDGE WILDFIRE, ELKO COUNTY.
0700 PM WILDFIRE 17 NE VALMY 40.97N 116.92W
07/12/2022 LANDER NV FIRE DEPT/RESCUE
ROOSTER WILDFIRE, LANDER COUNTY.
0737 PM WILDFIRE 4 ESE LAMOILLE 40.72N 115.41W
07/12/2022 ELKO NV FIRE DEPT/RESCUE
LODGE WILDFIRE, ELKO COUNTY.
0742 PM WILDFIRE 7 NE PINE VALLEY 40.49N 116.02W
07/12/2022 ELKO NV FIRE DEPT/RESCUE
RED SHELL WILDFIRE, ELKO COUNTY.
0819 PM WILDFIRE 7 SE TUSCARORA 41.25N 116.12W
07/12/2022 ELKO NV FIRE DEPT/RESCUE
TAYLOR CANYON WILDFIRE, ELKO COUNTY.
0924 PM WILDFIRE 14 SSW VALMY 40.59N 117.24W
07/12/2022 LANDER NV FIRE DEPT/RESCUE
HUMBUG WILDFIRE, LANDER COUNTY.
0933 PM WILDFIRE 19 NE NEW PASS SUMMIT 39.73N 117.23W
07/12/2022 LANDER NV FIRE DEPT/RESCUE
MANHATTAN WILDFIRE, LANDER COUNTY.
1026 PM WILDFIRE 19 ESE ELY AIRPORT 39.16N 114.55W
07/12/2022 WHITE PINE NV FIRE DEPT/RESCUE
EL TEJON WILDFIRE, WHITE PINE COUNTY.
&&The office that day
Everything else NWS Elko, NV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 12, 7:52 PM PDT | Excessive Heat Warning | LKN | Elko | 30 hr |
| Jul 13, 1:37 AM PDT | Red Flag Warning | LKN | Elko, Eureka, Lander, Nye, White Pine | 21 hr |
| Jul 13, 4:41 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | LKN | 34 min |
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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.