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Winter Storm Warning 8, NWS Elko, NV

February 29, 20245 counties in Nevada

NWS Elko, NV issued this winter storm warning at Feb 29, 2024, 2:10 AM PST for 5 counties in Nevada. It took effect at Mar 1, 2024, 4:00 AM PST. It was in force for 36 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: Feb 29, 2024, 2:10 AM PST (10:10 UTC)
In effect from: Mar 1, 2024, 4:00 AM PST
Expired: Mar 2, 2024, 4:00 PM PST
In force: 36 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 10:14 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 00:00Z, 10.2 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 2802 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 23 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 71 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 Feb 28, 1:14 PM PST, 12 hours 56 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 28, 1:14 PM PST, 12 hours 56 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Elko, NV issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Feb 29, 1:58 AM PST	High Wind Watch	LKN	Nye	24 hr
Feb 29, 12:59 PM PST	Blizzard Warning	LKN	Elko, White Pine	51 hr
Feb 29, 3:08 PM PST	Blowing Dust Advisory	LKN	Elko, Eureka, Humboldt, Lander	4 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.