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High Wind Warning 9, NWS Reno, NV
NWS Reno, NV issued this high wind warning at Dec 31, 2005, 12:34 PM PST for 7 counties in Nevada. It was in force for 5 hr. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 31, 2005, 12:34 PM PST (20:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 31, 2005, 6:00 PM PST
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Reno, NV
Counties Churchill County, NV, Douglas County, NV, Lyon County, NV, Mineral County, NV, Pershing County, NV, Storey County, NV, Washoe County, NV
The radar
The Reno radar (KRGX), 46 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:37 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 31, 1:45 PM PST | HEAVY RAIN 3.5 | Virginia City, NV | RAINFALL IN PAST 24 HOURS. |
| Dec 31, 3:32 PM PST | NON-TSTM WND GST 60 | Lovelock, NV | WIND GUST 60 MPH IN SQUALL. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Reno, NV (KREV), launched 12:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 71 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
- 644 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 68 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 49 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 231 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WWUS75 KREV 312034 NPWREV URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RENO NV 1234 PM PST SAT DEC 31 2005 ...STRONG GUSTY WINDS ACROSS WESTERN NEVADA THIS AFTERNOON... .A STRONG STORM SYSTEM MOVING THROUGH WESTERN NEVADA WILL BRING VERY STRONG AND POSSIBLY DAMAGING WINDS TO PORTIONS OF WESTERN NEVADA THROUGH THE AFTERNOON. DAMAGE TO TREES AND POWER LINES HAS BEEN REPORTED AROUND SOUTH LAKE TAHOE EARLY THIS AFTERNOON...AND SIMILAR PROBLEMS MAY OCCUR IN THE WARNING AREA. NVZ001-003-004-010200- /O.NEW.KREV.HW.W.0009.051231T2034Z-060101T0200Z/ MINERAL AND SOUTHERN LYON COUNTIES-GREATER RENO-CARSON CITY- MINDEN AREA-WESTERN NEVADA BASIN AND RANGE INCLUDING PYRAMID LAKE- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...HAWTHORNE...YERINGTON...SMITH VALLEY... MINA...SCHURZ...SPARKS...VERDI...GARDNERVILLE...FERNLEY... FALLON...LOVELOCK...SILVER SPRINGS...NIXON...IMLAY 1234 PM PST SAT DEC 31 2005 ...HIGH WIND WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM PST THIS AFTERNOON... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RENO HAS ISSUED A HIGH WIND WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM PST THIS AFTERNOON. WEST WINDS 30 TO 40 MPH WITH GUSTS OVER 70 MPH ARE POSSIBLE THROUGH THE AFTERNOON. 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. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Reno, NV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 30, 4:55 PM PST | Flash Flood Warning | REV | 15 hr | |
| Dec 31, 7:55 AM PST | Flash Flood Warning | REV | 4 hr | |
| Dec 31, 9:21 AM PST | Snow Advisory | REV | Douglas, Lyon, Storey, Washoe | 7 hr |
| Dec 31, 11:40 AM PST | Flash Flood Warning | REV | 4 hr |
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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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.