Alert archive / California / Wind Advisories in 2005
Wind Advisory 7, NWS Reno, NV
NWS Reno, NV issued this wind advisory at Nov 5, 2005, 8:20 PM PST for 4 counties in California; Washoe County, Nevada. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 5, 2005, 8:20 PM PST (04:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 6, 2005, 4:00 AM PST
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Reno, NV
Counties Lassen County, CA, Modoc County, CA, Plumas County, CA, Sierra County, CA, Washoe County, NV
The radar
The Reno radar (KRGX), 119 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:20 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, 4.3 hours before the alert went out and 219 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
- 1721 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 67 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 77 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 162 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 060420 NPWREV URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RENO NV 820 PM PST SAT NOV 5 2005 CAZ070-071-NVZ005-061200- /O.NEW.KREV.WI.Y.0007.051106T0420Z-051106T1200Z/ SURPRISE VALLEY CALIFORNIA-LASSEN-EASTERN PLUMAS- EASTERN SIERRA COUNTIES-NORTHERN WASHOE COUNTY- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...CEDARVILLE...EAGLEVILLE... FORT BIDWELL...PORTOLA...SUSANVILLE...WESTWOOD...SIERRAVILLE... EMPIRE...GERLACH 820 PM PST SAT NOV 5 2005 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 AM PST SUNDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RENO HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY... WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 AM PST SUNDAY. A STRONG COLD FRONT IS DEVELOPING ACROSS CENTRAL OREGON. THIS FRONT WILL SLOWLY MOVE SOUTH TONIGHT AND SUNDAY. AHEAD OF THE FRONT SOUTHWEST WINDS WILL INCREASE TO 25 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 50 MPH. THESE WINDS ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE THROUGH AT LEAST EARLY SUNDAY MORNING ACROSS THE SURPRISE VALLEY...NORTHERN WASHOE COUNTY AND LASSEN COUNTY NORTH OF RAVENDALE. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES ALONG HIGHWAY 395 NORTH OF RAVENDALE AND SURPRISE VALLEY ROAD ALONG THE EAST SLOPES OF THE WARNER MOUNTAINS. $$ BRONG
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS75 KREV 061138 NPWREV URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RENO NV 338 AM PST SUN NOV 6 2005 CAZ070-071-NVZ005-061245- /O.EXP.KREV.WI.Y.0007.000000T0000Z-051106T1200Z/ SURPRISE VALLEY CALIFORNIA-LASSEN-EASTERN PLUMAS- EASTERN SIERRA COUNTIES-NORTHERN WASHOE COUNTY- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...CEDARVILLE...EAGLEVILLE... FORT BIDWELL...PORTOLA...SUSANVILLE...WESTWOOD...SIERRAVILLE... EMPIRE...GERLACH 338 AM PST SUN NOV 6 2005 ...WIND ADVISORY WILL EXPIRE AT 4 AM PST EARLY THIS MORNING... THE WIND ADVISORY WILL EXPIRE AT 4 AM PST EARLY THIS MORNING. WINDS HAVE DECREASED OVERNIGHT BUT WILL BE GUSTY AT TIMES THROUGH THE DAY...WITH GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH POSSIBLE. $$
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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.