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Wind Advisory 14, NWS Elko, NV
NWS Elko, NV issued this wind advisory at May 15, 2026, 12:38 PM PDT for 6 counties in Nevada. It took effect at May 17, 2026, 11:00 AM PDT. It was in force for 11 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 15, 2026, 12:38 PM PDT (19:38 UTC)
- In effect from
- May 17, 2026, 11:00 AM PDT
- Expired
- May 17, 2026, 9:45 PM PDT
- In force
- 11 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Elko, NV
Counties Elko County, NV, Eureka County, NV, Humboldt County, NV, Lander County, NV, Nye County, NV, White Pine County, NV
The radar
The Elko radar (KLRX), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:37 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
Reno, NV (KREV), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 164 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2477 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 28 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 156 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
Nearby
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.