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High Wind Warning 6, NWS Reno, NV

December 21, 2005Mono County, California

NWS Reno, NV issued this high wind warning at Dec 21, 2005, 6:08 PM PST for Mono County, California. It was in force for 4 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: Dec 21, 2005, 6:08 PM PST (02:08 UTC)
Expired: Dec 21, 2005, 10:15 PM PST
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: NWS Reno, NV

County Mono County, CA

The radar

The San Joaquin Valley radar (KHNX), 192 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:08 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 00:00Z, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 191 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1348 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 98 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 221 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WWUS75 KREV 220208
NPWREV

URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RENO NV
608 PM PST WED DEC 21 2005


CAZ073-220800-
/O.NEW.KREV.HW.W.0006.051222T0208Z-051222T0800Z/
MONO-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...BRIDGEPORT...COLEVILLE...LEE VINING...
MAMMOTH LAKES
608 PM PST WED DEC 21 2005

...HIGH WIND WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT PST TONIGHT...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RENO HAS ISSUED A HIGH WIND
WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT PST TONIGHT. 

STRONG WINDS SOUTH AND WEST WINDS OF 50 TO 70 MPH ARE EPXECTED
FROM BISHOP TO BRIDGEPORT UNTIL MIDNIGHT. SOME MINOR WIND DAMAGE
WAS REPORTED IN LEE VINING LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND AREAS OF 395
WERE CLOSED TO HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. THE WINDS WILL DIMINSH BY MIDNIGHT.

A HIGH WIND WARNING MEANS A HAZARDOUS HIGH WIND EVENT IS EXPECTED
OR OCCURRING. SUSTAINED WIND SPEEDS OF AT LEAST 40 MPH OR GUSTS
OF 58 MPH OR MORE CAN LEAD TO PROPERTY DAMAGE AND VERY DIFFICULT
DRIVING CONDITIONS FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES.

$$
FISCHER

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS75 KREV 220615
NPWREV

URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RENO NV
1015 PM PST WED DEC 21 2005

CAZ073-220715-
/O.CAN.KREV.HW.W.0006.000000T0000Z-051222T0800Z/
MONO-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...BRIDGEPORT...COLEVILLE...LEE VINING...
MAMMOTH LAKES
1015 PM PST WED DEC 21 2005

...HIGH WIND WARNING IS CANCELLED...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RENO HAS CANCELED THE HIGH WIND
WARNING.

WINDS HAVE DECREASED TO SOUTHWEST 15 TO 25 MPH WITH LOCAL GUSTS TO
35 MPH.  WINDS WILL CONTINUE TO DECREASE OVERNIGHT.

$$

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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.