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Red Flag Warning 1, NWS Elko, NV

June 25, 2024Humboldt County, Nevada

NWS Elko, NV issued this red flag warning at Jun 25, 2024, 1:17 PM PDT for Humboldt County, Nevada. It took effect at Jun 26, 2024, 2:00 PM PDT. It was in force for 9 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
Jun 25, 2024, 1:17 PM PDT (20:17 UTC)
In effect from
Jun 26, 2024, 2:00 PM PDT
Expired
Jun 26, 2024, 11:00 PM PDT
In force
9 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 20:18 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, 8.3 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Reno, NV at 12:00Z on 2024-06-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 151 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Reno, NV at 12:00Z on 2024-06-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 48 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
151 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-255 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1932 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
48 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
106 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 25, 3:51 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementLKNEureka24 min
Jun 25, 3:58 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementLKNEureka32 min
Jun 25, 4:22 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementLKNEureka38 min

Nearby

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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.