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Wind Advisory 25, NWS Elko, NV

December 18, 2025Elko County, Humboldt County, White Pine County, Nevada

NWS Elko, NV issued this wind advisory at Dec 18, 2025, 11:31 AM PST for Elko County, Humboldt County, White Pine County, Nevada. It took effect at Dec 19, 2025, 7:00 AM PST. It was in force for 12 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Dec 18, 2025, 11:31 AM PST (19:31 UTC)
In effect from
Dec 19, 2025, 7:00 AM PST
Expired
Dec 19, 2025, 7:00 PM PST
In force
12 hr
Issued by
NWS Elko, NV

Counties Elko County, NV, Humboldt County, NV, White Pine County, NV

The nearest sounding before it

Boise Airport, ID (KBOI), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 323 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 2025-12-18Temperature 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 2025-12-18The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 70 square meters per square second.1939587897117136Sfc1 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
1761 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
95 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
70 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
208 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 wind advisory 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 wind advisory went out at Dec 17, 1:28 PM PST, 22 hours 3 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 17, 1:28 PM PST, 22 hours 3 minutes before
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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.