Alert archive / Nevada / High Wind Warnings in 2007

High Wind Warning 2, NWS Reno, NV

February 22, 2007Lyon County, Mineral County, Nevada

NWS Reno, NV issued this high wind warning at Feb 22, 2007, 4:52 PM PST for Lyon County, Mineral County, Nevada. It was in force for 83 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Feb 22, 2007, 4:52 PM PST (00:52 UTC)
Expired
Feb 22, 2007, 6:15 PM PST
In force
83 min
Issued by
NWS Reno, NV

Counties Lyon County, NV, Mineral County, NV

The radar

The Reno radar (KRGX), 122 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:52 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, 0.9 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Reno, NV at 00:00Z on 2007-02-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Reno, NV at 00:00Z on 2007-02-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -75 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1581 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
73 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-75 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
20 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 KREV 230052
NPWREV

URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RENO NV
452 PM PST THU FEB 22 2007

NVZ001-230300-
/O.UPG.KREV.WI.Y.0003.000000T0000Z-070223T0200Z/
/O.NEW.KREV.HW.W.0002.070223T0052Z-070223T0300Z/
MINERAL AND SOUTHERN LYON COUNTIES-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...HAWTHORNE...YERINGTON...SMITH VALLEY...
MINA...SCHURZ
452 PM PST THU FEB 22 2007

...HIGH WIND WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM PST THIS EVENING...
...WIND ADVISORY NO LONGER IN EFFECT...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RENO HAS ISSUED A HIGH WIND
WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM PST THIS EVENING. THE
WIND ADVISORY IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT. 

SOUTHWEST WINDS 20 TO 40 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 55 MPH WILL CONTINUE
THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON. LOCAL WIND PRONE AREAS AROUND WALKER LAKE MAY
SEE GUSTS UP TO 65 MPH. BLOWING DUST IS ALSO POSSIBLE IN DESERT
VALLEYS CAUSING REDUCED VISIBILITIES. THE WINDS WILL DECREASE
LATER THIS EVENING AS RAIN AND SNOW SHOWERS MOVE INTO THE AREA.

A HIGH WIND WARNING MEANS A HAZARDOUS HIGH WIND EVENT IS EXPECTED
OR OCCURRING. SUSTAINED WIND SPEEDS OF AT LEAST 40 MPH OR GUSTS
OF 58 MPH OR MORE CAN LEAD TO PROPERTY DAMAGE AND VERY DIFFICULT
DRIVING CONDITIONS FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES.

$$
TC

HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/RENO
1 follow-up statement
000 
WWUS75 KREV 230215
NPWREV

URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RENO NV
615 PM PST THU FEB 22 2007


NVZ001-230315-
/O.CAN.KREV.HW.W.0002.000000T0000Z-070223T0300Z/
MINERAL AND SOUTHERN LYON COUNTIES-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...HAWTHORNE...YERINGTON...SMITH VALLEY...
MINA...SCHURZ
615 PM PST THU FEB 22 2007

...HIGH WIND WARNING IS CANCELLED...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RENO HAS CANCELLED THE HIGH WIND
WARNING. 

WIND GUSTS HAVE DIMINISHED TO LESS THIS EVENING FOLLOWING A COLD
FRONT.

$$


HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/RENO

The office that day

Everything else NWS Reno, NV issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 23, 3:20 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchREVDouglas, Washoe13 hr

Nearby

High Wind Warnings in Nevada, 2007Every high wind warning in 2007

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.