Alert archive / Nevada / Winter Storm Warnings in 2006
Winter Storm Warning 1, NWS Las Vegas, NV
NWS Las Vegas, NV issued this winter storm warning at Jan 1, 2006, 3:37 AM PST for 4 counties in Nevada. It took effect at Jan 1, 2006, 7:00 PM PST. It was in force for 25 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
- Jan 1, 2006, 3:37 AM PST (11:37 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 1, 2006, 7:00 PM PST
- Expired
- Jan 2, 2006, 8:25 PM PST
- In force
- 25 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Las Vegas, NV
Counties Clark County, NV, Esmeralda County, NV, Lincoln County, NV, Nye County, NV
The radar
The Las Vegas radar (KESX), 215 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:37 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, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 306 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
- 903 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 82 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 126 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this winter storm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Las Vegas, NV wrote its last area forecast discussion before this winter storm warning went out at Dec 31, 9:00 PM PST, 6 hours 37 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Dec 31, 9:00 PM PST, 6 hours 37 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Las Vegas, NV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 1, 3:37 AM PST | Winter Storm Watch | VEF | Clark, Lincoln, Nye | 12 hr |
| Dec 31, 8:46 PM PST | Winter Storm Watch | VEF | 7 hr | |
| Jan 1, 3:54 PM PST | Snow Advisory | VEF | 10 hr |
Nearby
Winter Storm Warnings in Nevada, 2006Winter Storm Warnings in California, 2006Every winter storm warning 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.