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Lake Wind Advisory 2, NWS Reno, NV
NWS Reno, NV issued this lake wind advisory at Jan 5, 2008, 3:17 AM PST for 4 counties in Nevada. It took effect at Jan 5, 2008, 4:00 AM PST. It was in force for 14 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 5, 2008, 3:17 AM PST (11:17 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 5, 2008, 4:00 AM PST
- Expired
- Jan 5, 2008, 6:00 PM PST
- In force
- 14 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Reno, NV
Counties Churchill County, NV, Lyon County, NV, Pershing County, NV, Washoe County, NV
The radar
The Reno radar (KRGX), 52 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:20 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 00:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 376 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
- 2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 614 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 86 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -147 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -107 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this lake wind 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 lake wind advisory went out at Jan 4, 3:47 PM PST, 11 hours 30 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 4, 3:47 PM PST, 11 hours 30 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Reno, NV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 5, 3:17 AM PST | Winter Storm Watch | REV | Lyon, Mineral | 8 hr |
| Jan 5, 4:58 AM PST | Flash Flood Warning | REV | Lyon | 5 hr |
| Jan 5, 11:07 AM PST | Snow Advisory | REV | Churchill, Lyon, Pershing, Washoe | 17 hr |
Nearby
Lake Wind Advisories in Nevada, 2008Every lake wind advisory in 2008
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.