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Wind Advisory 6, NWS Elko, NV
NWS Elko, NV issued this wind advisory at Feb 19, 2023, 12:26 PM PST for Humboldt County, Nevada. It took effect at Feb 21, 2023, 7:00 AM PST. It was in force for 15 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 19, 2023, 12:26 PM PST (20:26 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 21, 2023, 7:00 AM PST
- Expired
- Feb 21, 2023, 10:00 PM PST
- In force
- 15 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 20:27 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, 8.4 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1761 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 72 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 61 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 123 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Elko, NV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 19, 12:23 PM PST | Winter Storm Watch | LKN | White Pine | 23 hr |
| Feb 19, 12:23 PM PST | Winter Weather Advisory | LKN | Elko, Eureka, Lander, Nye, White Pine | 3 days |
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.