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Wind Advisory 18, NWS Elko, NV
NWS Elko, NV issued this wind advisory at Aug 31, 2023, 3:53 AM PDT for 5 counties in Nevada. It took effect at Sep 1, 2023, 10:00 AM PDT. It was in force for 10 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 31, 2023, 3:53 AM PDT (10:53 UTC)
- In effect from
- Sep 1, 2023, 10:00 AM PDT
- Expired
- Sep 1, 2023, 8:00 PM PDT
- In force
- 10 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Elko, NV
Counties Elko County, NV, Eureka County, NV, Lander County, NV, Nye County, NV, White Pine County, NV
The radar
The Elko radar (KLRX), 133 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:57 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 00:00Z, 10.9 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 4014 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 29 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 104 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
Nearby
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.