Alert archive / Nevada / High Wind Watches in 2006
High Wind Watch 1, NWS Reno, NV
NWS Reno, NV issued this high wind watch at Jan 26, 2006, 9:44 PM PST for 4 counties in Nevada; Modoc County, Mono County, California. It took effect at Jan 28, 2006, 8:00 AM PST. It was in force for 12 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 26, 2006, 9:44 PM PST (05:44 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 28, 2006, 8:00 AM PST
- Expired
- Jan 28, 2006, 8:00 PM PST
- In force
- 12 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Reno, NV
Counties Modoc County, CA, Mono County, CA, Douglas County, NV, Lyon County, NV, Storey County, NV, Washoe County, NV
The radar
The Reno radar (KRGX), 21 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:44 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
Medford/Jackson, OR (KMFR), launched 00:00Z, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 409 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
- 1150 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 198 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 457 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this high wind watch 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 high wind watch went out at Jan 26, 9:15 PM PST, 29 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 26, 9:15 PM PST, 29 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Reno, NV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 27, 9:29 AM PST | Winter Storm Watch | REV | Douglas, Washoe | 6 hr |
| Jan 27, 3:09 PM PST | Winter Storm Warning | REV | Douglas, Washoe | 24 hr |
| Jan 27, 3:42 PM PST | High Wind Warning | REV | Douglas, Lyon, Storey, Washoe | 28 hr |
| Jan 27, 3:42 PM PST | Wind Advisory | REV | Churchill, Lyon, Mineral, Pershing, Washoe | 28 hr |
Nearby
High Wind Watches in Nevada, 2006High Wind Watches in California, 2006Every high wind watch in 2006
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.