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Snow Advisory 6, NWS Las Vegas, NV

January 24, 2008Inyo County, California

NWS Las Vegas, NV issued this snow advisory at Jan 24, 2008, 3:06 PM PST for Inyo County, California. It took effect at Jan 24, 2008, 6:00 PM PST. It was in force for 9 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jan 24, 2008, 3:06 PM PST (23:06 UTC)
In effect from
Jan 24, 2008, 6:00 PM PST
Expired
Jan 25, 2008, 3:05 AM PST
In force
9 hr
Issued by
NWS Las Vegas, NV

County Inyo County, CA

The nearest sounding before it

Mercury/Desert R, NV (KDRA), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 127 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, Mercury/Desert R, NV at 12:00Z on 2008-01-24Temperature 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 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Mercury/Desert R, NV at 12:00Z on 2008-01-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 100 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
726 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
100 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
180 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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.