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Wind Advisory 6, NWS Elko, NV
NWS Elko, NV issued this wind advisory at Mar 31, 2026, 11:50 AM PDT for Elko County, Humboldt County, White Pine County, Nevada. It took effect at Apr 1, 2026, 10:00 AM PDT. It was in force for 16 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 31, 2026, 11:50 AM PDT (18:50 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 1, 2026, 10:00 AM PDT
- Expired
- Apr 2, 2026, 2:00 AM PDT
- In force
- 16 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Elko, NV
Counties Elko County, NV, Humboldt County, NV, White Pine County, NV
The radar
The Elko radar (KLRX), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:52 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, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 214 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
- 1509 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 53 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 68 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Mar 31, 12:53 AM PDT, 10 hours 57 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 31, 12:53 AM PDT, 10 hours 57 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.