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Blowing Snow Advisory 2, NWS Reno, NV

January 28, 2008Mono County, California

NWS Reno, NV issued this blowing snow advisory at Jan 28, 2008, 11:59 AM PST for Mono County, California. It was in force for 4 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jan 28, 2008, 11:59 AM PST (19:59 UTC)
Expired: Jan 28, 2008, 4:00 PM PST
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: NWS Reno, NV

County Mono County, CA

The radar

The San Joaquin Valley radar (KHNX), 192 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:02 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 295 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: 1297 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 283 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 512 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this blowing 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 blowing snow advisory went out at Jan 28, 3:47 AM PST, 8 hours 12 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 28, 3:47 AM PST, 8 hours 12 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jan 28, 10:58 AM PST, 1 hour 1 minute before

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Local storm report, Jan 28, 11:19 AM PST, 40 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 28, 8:43 AM PST	Lake Wind Advisory	REV	Churchill, Douglas, Lyon, Pershing, Washoe	6 hr
Jan 28, 3:42 PM PST	Lake Wind Advisory	REV	Churchill, Lyon, Pershing, Washoe	28 hr
Jan 28, 3:51 PM PST	Snow and Blowing Snow Advisory	REV	Douglas, Washoe	36 hr

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.