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Wind Advisory 8, NWS Elko, NV

April 3, 20225 counties in Nevada

NWS Elko, NV issued this wind advisory at Apr 3, 2022, 2:17 AM PDT for 5 counties in Nevada. It took effect at Apr 4, 2022, 11:00 AM PDT. It was in force for 21 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 3, 2022, 2:17 AM PDT (09:17 UTC)
In effect from: Apr 4, 2022, 11:00 AM PDT
Expired: Apr 5, 2022, 8:00 AM PDT
In force: 21 hr
Issued by: NWS Elko, NV

Counties Elko County, NV, Eureka County, NV, Humboldt County, NV, Lander County, NV, White Pine County, NV

The radar

The Elko radar (KLRX), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:22 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

Boise Airport, ID (KBOI), launched 00:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 355 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: 2435 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 58 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -23 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -39 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this wind advisory 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 wind advisory went out at Apr 2, 7:09 PM PDT, 7 hours 8 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 2, 7:09 PM PDT, 7 hours 8 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 2, 6:56 PM PDT	High Wind Watch	LKN	Elko, White Pine	20 hr
Apr 3, 2:51 PM PDT	High Wind Warning	LKN	Elko, White Pine	38 hr
Apr 3, 2:51 PM PDT	Wind Advisory	LKN	Elko, White Pine	11 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.