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Red Flag Warning 11, NWS Elko, NV

July 16, 2022Humboldt County, Nevada

NWS Elko, NV issued this red flag warning at Jul 16, 2022, 2:10 PM PDT for Humboldt County, Nevada. It took effect at Jul 17, 2022, 12:00 PM PDT. It was in force for 8 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 16, 2022, 2:10 PM PDT (21:10 UTC)
In effect from: Jul 17, 2022, 12:00 PM PDT
Expired: Jul 17, 2022, 8:00 PM PDT
In force: 8 hr
Issued by: NWS Elko, NV

County Humboldt County, NV

The radar

The Elko radar (KLRX), 132 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:13 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, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 204 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 2827 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 48 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 139 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.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 15, 5:09 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN		51 min
Jul 15, 5:15 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN		30 min
Jul 15, 5:17 PM PDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LKN	Lander	3 hr
Jul 15, 5:46 PM PDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LKN	White Pine	85 min
Jul 15, 5:49 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LKN	Nye	26 min
Jul 15, 6:00 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN	Eureka, Lander, White Pine	60 min
Jul 15, 6:05 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN		25 min
Jul 15, 6:36 PM PDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LKN	Nye	3 hr
Jul 15, 7:11 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN	Nye	34 min
Jul 15, 7:30 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN		30 min
Jul 16, 2:09 PM PDT	Excessive Heat Warning	LKN	Elko	54 hr
Jul 16, 3:04 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN		26 min
Jul 16, 4:34 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	LKN	Lander	26 min

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.