Alert archive / Nevada / Snow Advisories in 2007
Snow Advisory 1, NWS Reno, NV
NWS Reno, NV issued this snow advisory at Jan 3, 2007, 3:40 PM PST for 4 counties in Nevada; Modoc County, Mono County, California. It took effect at Jan 3, 2007, 10:00 PM PST. It was in force for 29 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 3, 2007, 3:40 PM PST (23:40 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 3, 2007, 10:00 PM PST
- Expired
- Jan 5, 2007, 3:02 AM PST
- In force
- 29 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Reno, NV
Counties Modoc County, CA, Mono County, CA, Douglas County, NV, Lyon County, NV, Storey County, NV, Washoe County, NV
The radar
The Reno radar (KRGX), 21 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:40 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
Oakland, CA (KOAK), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 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
- 1098 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 38 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 88 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this snow advisory went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Reno, NV wrote its last area forecast discussion before this snow advisory went out at Jan 3, 2:45 PM PST, 55 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 3, 2:45 PM PST, 55 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Reno, NV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 3, 2:04 AM PST | Wind Advisory | REV | Douglas, Lyon, Mineral, Storey, Washoe | 32 hr |
| Jan 3, 3:08 AM PST | Winter Storm Warning | REV | Douglas, Washoe | 37 hr |
Nearby
Snow Advisories in Nevada, 2007Snow Advisories in California, 2007Every snow advisory 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.