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Flash Flood Warning 5, NWS Elko, NV

May 26, 2023Elko County, Eureka County, Nevada

NWS Elko, NV issued this flash flood warning at May 26, 2023, 3:47 PM PDT for Elko County, Eureka County, Nevada. It was in force for 2 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
May 26, 2023, 3:47 PM PDT (22:47 UTC)
Expired
May 26, 2023, 6:09 PM PDT
In force
2 hr
Issued by
NWS Elko, NV
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
None

Counties Elko County, NV, Eureka County, NV

The radar

The Elko radar (KLRX), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:47 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, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 140 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 2023-05-26Temperature 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 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 2023-05-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 7 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
1246 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
7 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
47 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
May 25, 6:00 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementLKN30 min
May 25, 6:03 PM PDTAreal Flood AdvisoryLKNElko2 hr
May 25, 6:25 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementLKN35 min
May 26, 3:07 AM PDTRiver Flood AdvisoryLKNElko58 hr
May 26, 3:09 AM PDTRiver Flood WarningLKNElko8 days
May 26, 12:35 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementLKNEureka25 min
May 26, 12:56 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementLKN34 min
May 26, 12:59 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementLKN31 min
May 26, 1:03 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementLKNEureka27 min
May 26, 1:14 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementLKN31 min
May 26, 1:20 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementLKNElko25 min
May 26, 1:26 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementLKN34 min
May 26, 1:28 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementLKNEureka32 min
May 26, 1:45 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementLKN30 min
May 26, 1:49 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementLKN26 min
May 26, 1:53 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementLKN37 min
May 26, 1:56 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementLKN34 min
May 26, 1:58 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementLKNEureka32 min
May 26, 2:05 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementLKNEureka25 min
May 26, 2:19 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementLKN26 min
May 26, 2:21 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementLKN24 min
May 26, 2:22 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementLKN23 min
May 26, 2:26 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementLKN34 min
May 26, 2:28 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementLKNLander32 min
May 26, 2:40 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementLKN35 min
May 26, 2:42 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementLKNElko33 min
May 26, 2:55 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementLKNEureka35 min
May 26, 3:07 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementLKN38 min
May 26, 3:20 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementLKNEureka25 min
May 26, 4:05 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementLKNEureka25 min
May 26, 4:09 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementLKN36 min
May 26, 4:15 PM PDTRiver Flood WarningLKNElko53 hr
May 26, 4:20 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementLKNElko40 min
May 26, 4:26 PM PDTRiver Flood WarningLKNEureka4 days
May 26, 4:50 PM PDTAreal Flood AdvisoryLKNElko3 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.