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Heavy Snow Warning 4, NWS Reno, NV

March 28, 2006Mono County, California

NWS Reno, NV issued this heavy snow warning at Mar 28, 2006, 12:36 PM PST for Mono County, California. It was in force for 15 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: Mar 28, 2006, 12:36 PM PST (20:36 UTC)
Expired: Mar 29, 2006, 4:00 AM PST
In force: 15 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 20:38 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Oakland, CA (KOAK), launched 12:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 292 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: 13 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -9 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 927 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 55 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 222 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 243 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this heavy snow warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Reno, NV wrote its last area forecast discussion before this heavy snow warning went out at Mar 28, 11:55 AM PST, 41 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 28, 11:55 AM PST, 41 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.