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Winter Storm Warning 5, NWS Elko, NV
NWS Elko, NV issued this winter storm warning at Mar 20, 2023, 2:30 PM PDT for Elko County, Nye County, White Pine County, Nevada. It took effect at Mar 21, 2023, 5:00 AM PDT. It was in force for 40 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
- Mar 20, 2023, 2:30 PM PDT (21:30 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 21, 2023, 5:00 AM PDT
- Expired
- Mar 22, 2023, 9:12 PM PDT
- In force
- 40 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Elko, NV
Counties Elko County, NV, Nye County, NV, White Pine County, NV
The radar
The Elko radar (KLRX), 169 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:30 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Reno, NV (KREV), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 225 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
- 2403 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 129 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 93 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this winter storm warning 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 winter storm warning went out at Mar 20, 2:15 PM PDT, 15 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 20, 2:15 PM PDT, 15 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Elko, NV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Mar 20, 1:42 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | LKN | 33 min | |
| Mar 20, 2:30 PM PDT | Winter Weather Advisory | LKN | Elko, Eureka, Humboldt, Lander | 51 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.