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Red Flag Warning 8, NWS Elko, NV

July 25, 2026Humboldt County, Nevada

NWS Elko, NV issued this red flag warning at Jul 25, 2026, 10:19 AM PDT for Humboldt County, Nevada. It took effect at Jul 25, 2026, 11:00 AM PDT. It was in force for 9 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
Jul 25, 2026, 10:19 AM PDT (17:19 UTC)
In effect from
Jul 25, 2026, 11:00 AM PDT
Expired
Jul 25, 2026, 8:00 PM PDT
In force
9 hr
Issued by
NWS Elko, NV

County Humboldt County, NV

The radar

The Elko radar (KLRX), 132 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:20 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, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 204 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 2026-07-25Temperature 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, Reno, NV at 12:00Z on 2026-07-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 60 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
3345 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
60 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
69 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
Jul 24, 7:35 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementLKNEureka25 min
Jul 24, 8:57 PM PDTHeat AdvisoryLKNElko3 days
Jul 24, 9:27 PM PDTAreal Flood AdvisoryLKNEureka, Lander2 hr
Jul 25, 2:09 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementLKNElko36 min
Jul 25, 2:14 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementLKNElko31 min
Jul 25, 2:49 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementLKN26 min
Jul 25, 3:01 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementLKNElko29 min
Jul 25, 3:25 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementLKN35 min
Jul 25, 4:28 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementLKN32 min
Jul 25, 4:58 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementLKN32 min

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.