Alert archive / Nevada / Wind Advisories in 2006
Wind Advisory 2, NWS Reno, NV
NWS Reno, NV issued this wind advisory at Jan 7, 2006, 7:38 PM PST for Mono County, California; 5 counties in Nevada. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 7, 2006, 7:38 PM PST (03:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 7, 2006, 10:00 PM PST
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Reno, NV
Counties Mono County, CA, Douglas County, NV, Lyon County, NV, Mineral County, NV, Storey County, NV, Washoe County, NV
The radar
The Reno radar (KRGX), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:39 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, 3.6 hours before the alert went out and 103 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
- 2463 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 61 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 132 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 201 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 080338 NPWREV URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RENO NV 738 PM PST SAT JAN 7 2006 .A COLD FRONT MOVING ACROSS NORTHERN CALIFORNIA AND WESTERN NEVADA WILL BRING STRONG GUSTY WINDS TO THE AREA THIS EVENING. WINDS WILL DECREASE BEHIND THE COLD FRONT LATER THIS EVENING. CAZ073-NVZ001-003-080600- /O.NEW.KREV.WI.Y.0002.060108T0338Z-060108T0600Z/ MONO-MINERAL AND SOUTHERN LYON COUNTIES-GREATER RENO-CARSON CITY- MINDEN AREA- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...BRIDGEPORT...COLEVILLE...LEE VINING... MAMMOTH LAKES...HAWTHORNE...YERINGTON...SMITH VALLEY...MINA... SCHURZ...SPARKS...VERDI...GARDNERVILLE 738 PM PST SAT JAN 7 2006 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM PST THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RENO HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY... WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM PST THIS EVENING. WIND SPEEDS OF 20 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 55 MPH WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE EVENING. GUSTS TO 60 MPH ARE POSSIBLE IN WIND PRONE AREAS. IN EXPOSED SNOW-COVERED AREAS THE GUSTY WINDS MAY PRODUCE BLOWING SNOW WITH VISIBILITIES NEAR ZERO AT TIMES. A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT WIND GUSTS OF 45 MPH ARE EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS75 KREV 080542 NPWREV URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RENO NV 942 PM PST SAT JAN 7 2006 CAZ073-NVZ001-003-080645- /O.EXP.KREV.WI.Y.0002.000000T0000Z-060108T0600Z/ MONO-MINERAL AND SOUTHERN LYON COUNTIES-GREATER RENO-CARSON CITY- MINDEN AREA- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...BRIDGEPORT...COLEVILLE...LEE VINING... MAMMOTH LAKES...HAWTHORNE...YERINGTON...SMITH VALLEY...MINA... SCHURZ...SPARKS...VERDI...GARDNERVILLE 942 PM PST SAT JAN 7 2006 ...WIND ADVISORY WILL EXPIRE AT 10 PM PST THIS EVENING... THE WIND ADVISORY WILL EXPIRE AT 10 PM PST THIS EVENING. WIND SPEEDS HAVE DECREASED ACROSS THE AREA BUT GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH ARE POSSIBLE UNTIL AROUND MIDNIGHT. $$
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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.