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Wind Advisory 18, NWS Elko, NV

October 16, 2024Nye County, Nevada

NWS Elko, NV issued this wind advisory at Oct 16, 2024, 1:32 PM PDT for Nye County, Nevada. It took effect at Oct 17, 2024, 6:00 PM PDT. It was in force for 26 hr.

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The facts

Issued
Oct 16, 2024, 1:32 PM PDT (20:32 UTC)
In effect from
Oct 17, 2024, 6:00 PM PDT
Expired
Oct 18, 2024, 8:07 PM PDT
In force
26 hr
Issued by
NWS Elko, NV

County Nye County, NV

The nearest sounding before it

Las Vegas, NV (KVEF), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 203 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, Las Vegas, NV at 12:00Z on 2024-10-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Las Vegas, NV at 12:00Z on 2024-10-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -26 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
3482 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-26 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-43 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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.