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Winter Storm Warning 5, NWS Elko, NV

January 30, 2024Elko County, Nye County, White Pine County, Nevada

NWS Elko, NV issued this winter storm warning at Jan 30, 2024, 12:51 PM PST for Elko County, Nye County, White Pine County, Nevada. It took effect at Feb 1, 2024, 4:00 AM PST. It was in force for 33 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
Jan 30, 2024, 12:51 PM PST (20:51 UTC)
In effect from
Feb 1, 2024, 4:00 AM PST
Expired
Feb 2, 2024, 1:01 PM PST
In force
33 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 20:52 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, 8.9 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Reno, NV at 12:00Z on 2024-01-30Temperature 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 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 2024-01-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 10 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
1687 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
10 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
83 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
Jan 30, 12:51 PM PSTWinter Weather AdvisoryLKNEureka, Lander, White Pine68 hr
Jan 30, 12:54 PM PSTWind AdvisoryLKNEureka, Lander, Nye, White Pine45 hr

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.