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Wind Advisory 16, NWS Elko, NV

June 17, 20234 counties in Nevada

NWS Elko, NV issued this wind advisory at Jun 17, 2023, 2:01 PM PDT for 4 counties in Nevada. It took effect at Jun 18, 2023, 11:00 AM PDT. It was in force for 12 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 17, 2023, 2:01 PM PDT (21:01 UTC)
In effect from
Jun 18, 2023, 11:00 AM PDT
Expired
Jun 18, 2023, 11:00 PM PDT
In force
12 hr
Issued by
NWS Elko, NV

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

The radar

The Elko radar (KLRX), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:00 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

Salt Lake City I, UT (KSLC), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 345 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, Salt Lake City I, UT at 12:00Z on 2023-06-17Temperature 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, Salt Lake City I, UT at 12:00Z on 2023-06-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 17 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
2646 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
17 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
78 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 17, 2:01 PM PDTFrost AdvisoryLKNElko, Humboldt42 hr
Jun 17, 2:01 PM PDTFreeze WatchLKNElko, Eureka, Humboldt, Lander, Nye, White Pine49 hr
Jun 17, 2:01 PM PDTWind AdvisoryLKNElko, Eureka, Humboldt, Lander, Nye, White Pine57 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.