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Frost Advisory 4, NWS Elko, NV
NWS Elko, NV issued this frost advisory at Aug 23, 2024, 1:11 PM PDT for 5 counties in Nevada. It took effect at Aug 24, 2024, 10:00 PM PDT. It was in force for 11 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 23, 2024, 1:11 PM PDT (20:11 UTC)
- In effect from
- Aug 24, 2024, 10:00 PM PDT
- Expired
- Aug 25, 2024, 9:00 AM PDT
- In force
- 11 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 20:12 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, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 368 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
- 54 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -237 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2302 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 199 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 252 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this frost advisory 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 frost advisory went out at Aug 22, 2:40 PM PDT, 22 hours 31 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 22, 2:40 PM PDT, 22 hours 31 minutes before
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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.