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Red Flag Warning 13, NWS Reno, NV

July 14, 2007Washoe County, Nevada

NWS Reno, NV issued this red flag warning at Jul 14, 2007, 3:23 PM PDT for Washoe County, Nevada. It was in force for 6 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: Jul 14, 2007, 3:23 PM PDT (22:23 UTC)
Expired: Jul 14, 2007, 8:59 PM PDT
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: NWS Reno, NV

County Washoe County, NV

The radar

The Reno radar (KRGX), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:23 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 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 174 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: 3995 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 35 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 125 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 
WWUS85 KREV 142223
RFWREV

RED FLAG WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RENO NV
323 PM PDT SAT JUL 14 2007

...RED FLAG WARNING FOR THE REST OF THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING FOR
GUSTY WINDS AND LOW HUMIDITIES IN NORTHERN WASHOE COUNTY...ALONG
THE SIERRA FRONT...AND IN MONO COUNTY...

CAZ273-NVZ450-458-150400-
/O.NEW.KREV.FW.W.0013.070714T2223Z-070715T0400Z/
MONO-EASTERN ALPINE COUNTIES-WESTERN NEVADA SIERRA FRONT-
NORTHERN WASHOE COUNTY-
323 PM PDT SAT JUL 14 2007

...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM PDT THIS EVENING...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RENO HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG
WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM PDT THIS EVENING. 

AFTERNOON AND EVENING WINDS WILL GUST TO 30 MPH WITH LOCAL GUSTS
TO 35 MPH. THE WINDS COMBINED WITH LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITIES IN THE
SINGLE DIGITS WILL CREATE CRITICAL FIRE CONDITIONS.

A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS
WILL OCCUR.

$$


HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/RENO/FIRE

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS85 KREV 150359
RFWREV

RED FLAG WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RENO NV
859 PM PDT SAT JUL 14 2007


CAZ273-NVZ450-458-150500-
/O.CAN.KREV.FW.W.0013.000000T0000Z-070715T0400Z/
MONO-EASTERN ALPINE COUNTIES-WESTERN NEVADA SIERRA FRONT-
NORTHERN WASHOE COUNTY-
859 PM PDT SAT JUL 14 2007

...RED FLAG WARNING IS CANCELLED...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RENO HAS CANCELLED THE RED FLAG
WARNING. 

WITH SUNSET...RELATIVE HUMIDITIES HAVE BEGUN TO INCREASE ACROSS
THE REGION AND WINDS ARE SUBSIDING...THEREFORE THE RED FLAG
WARNING WILL BE CANCELLED AS OF 9 PM PDT. LOCALIZED WIND GUSTS TO
NEAR 30 MPH REMAIN POSSIBLE THROUGH 11 PM PDT.

$$
CS

HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/RENO/FIRE

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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.