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Wind Advisory 7, NWS Las Vegas, NV

February 28, 2006Lincoln County, Nevada

NWS Las Vegas, NV issued this wind advisory at Feb 28, 2006, 4:03 PM PST for Lincoln County, Nevada. It was in force for 117 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Feb 28, 2006, 4:03 PM PST (00:03 UTC)
Expired: Feb 28, 2006, 6:00 PM PST
In force: 117 min
Issued by: NWS Las Vegas, NV

County Lincoln County, NV

The radar

The Cedar City radar (KICX), 178 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:05 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

Mercury/Desert R, NV (KDRA), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 151 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 2456 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 61 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 96 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 50 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WWUS75 KVEF 010003
NPWVEF

URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV
403 PM PST TUE FEB 28 2006

NVZ015-010200-
/O.CAN.KVEF.WI.Y.0006.000000T0000Z-060301T0000Z/
/O.NEW.KVEF.WI.Y.0007.060301T0003Z-060301T0200Z/
LINCOLN COUNTY-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...CALIENTE...PIOCHE...PANACA...HIKO...
ALAMO...RACHEL
403 PM PST TUE FEB 28 2006

...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM PST THIS AFTERNOON...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAS VEGAS HAS EXTENDED THE WIND
ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM PST THIS AFTERNOON.

AT 355 PM...SEVERAL SENSORS IN LINCOLN COUNTY CONTINUE TO REPORT
WIND GUSTS BETWEEN 45 AND 55 MPH. THE STRONG WINDS WILL SUBSIDE
SHORTLY AFTER SUNSET. 

A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT WINDS OF 30 TO 39 MPH AND/OR FREQUENT
WIND GUSTS OF 40 MPH OR GREATER ARE EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG
CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES.
USE EXTRA CAUTION.

$$

NVZ014-010115-
/O.CAN.KVEF.WI.Y.0006.000000T0000Z-060301T0000Z/
ESMERALDA AND CENTRAL NYE COUNTY-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...BEATTY...GOLDFIELD...SILVER PEAK...DYER
403 PM PST TUE FEB 28 2006

...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAS VEGAS HAS CANCELLED THE WIND
ADVISORY.

WIND SENSORS ACROSS CENTRAL NYE AND ESMERALDA COUNTIES INDICATE
SUSTAINED WIND SPEEDS AND WIND GUSTS HAVE FALLEN BELOW ADVISORY
LEVELS. THE WIND ADVISORY WAS ALLOWED TO END AT 4 PM. 
 

$$

PIERCE

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS75 KVEF 010203
NPWVEF

URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV
603 PM PST TUE FEB 28 2006

NVZ015-010315-
/O.EXP.KVEF.WI.Y.0007.000000T0000Z-060301T0200Z/
LINCOLN COUNTY-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...CALIENTE...PIOCHE...PANACA...HIKO...
ALAMO...RACHEL
603 PM PST TUE FEB 28 2006

...WIND ADVISORY HAS EXPIRED...

SOUTHWEST WINDS HAVE DECREASED TO BELOW ADVISORY LEVELS...SO THE WIND
ADVISORY IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT.

FOR ANOTHER 2 OR 3 HOURS...WINDS WILL BE FROM THE SOUTHWEST
BETWEEN 10 TO 20 MPH WITH OCCASIONAL GUSTS TO 30 MPH...THEN
BECOME LIGHT AND VARIABLE OVERNIGHT.

$$

Nearby

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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.