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Red Flag Warning 14, NWS Elko, NV

August 13, 2025Elko County, Nevada

NWS Elko, NV issued this red flag warning at Aug 13, 2025, 1:16 PM PDT for Elko County, Nevada. It took effect at Aug 14, 2025, 12:00 PM PDT. It was in force for 8 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
Aug 13, 2025, 1:16 PM PDT (20:16 UTC)
In effect from
Aug 14, 2025, 12:00 PM PDT
Expired
Aug 14, 2025, 8:00 PM PDT
In force
8 hr
Issued by
NWS Elko, NV

County Elko County, NV

The radar

The Elko radar (KLRX), 129 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:19 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

Boise Airport, ID (KBOI), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 278 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, Boise Airport, ID at 12:00Z on 2025-08-13Temperature 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, Boise Airport, ID at 12:00Z on 2025-08-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -7 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
3177 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-7 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
25 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
Aug 13, 12:28 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementLKN32 min
Aug 13, 12:31 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementLKN29 min
Aug 13, 3:33 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementLKN27 min

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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.