Alert archive / California / Wind Advisories in 2008
Wind Advisory 9, NWS Las Vegas, NV
NWS Las Vegas, NV issued this wind advisory at Feb 20, 2008, 11:20 AM PST for San Bernardino County, California. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 20, 2008, 11:20 AM PST (19:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 20, 2008, 7:00 PM PST
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Las Vegas, NV
County San Bernardino County, CA
The nearest sounding before it
Edwards AFB, CA (KEDW), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 148 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
- 1176 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 11 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 38 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WWUS75 KVEF 201920 NPWVEF URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV 1120 AM PST WED FEB 20 2008 ...GUSTY WINDS WILL BE SEEN ACROSS WESTERN SAN BERNDARDINO COUNTY THIS AFTERNOON... .A PACIFIC STORM MOVING ACROSS CENTRAL CALIFORNIA TODAY WILL ALLOW FOR WESTERLY WINDS TO CONTINUE ACROSS SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY THIS AFTERNOON AND INTO THIS EVENING. ALTHOUGH GUSTY WINDS WILL BE LIKELY ACROSS MUCH OF THE COUNTY...THE STRONGEST WINDS WILL BE OVER THE WESTERN PORTION. CAZ523-210300- /O.NEW.KVEF.WI.Y.0009.080220T1920Z-080221T0300Z/ WESTERN MOJAVE DESERT- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...BARSTOW...DAGGETT...FT IRWIN 1120 AM PST WED FEB 20 2008 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM PST THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAS VEGAS HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM PST THIS EVENING FOR THE WESTERN MOJAVE DESERT. WEST WINDS BETWEEN 15 AND 25 MPH WITH GUSTS TO NEAR 45 MPH WILL BE SEEN THROUGH EARLY EVENING BEFORE DECREASING BY MID EVENING. DRIVERS OF VANS...CAMPERS...TRAILERS...AND OTHER HIGH-PROFILE VEHICLES SHOULD BE ALERT TO THE DANGER OF THESE WINDS...AS LOCAL CROSS WINDS MAY MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT. IN ADDITION...LOCAL AREAS OF BLOWING DUST MAY BRIEFLY LOWER VISIBILITIES. $$
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS75 KVEF 202331 NPWVEF URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV 331 PM PST WED FEB 20 2008 ...GUSTY WINDS WILL CONTINUE INTO EARLY EVENING ACROSS WESTERN SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY... .A PACIFIC STORM MOVING OVER SOUTHERN NEVADA THIS AFTERNOON WILL CONTINUE TO ALLOW FOR WESTERLY WINDS ACROSS SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY THROUGH THIS EVENING. ALTHOUGH GUSTY WINDS WILL BE LIKELY ACROSS MUCH OF THE COUNTY...THE STRONGEST WINDS WILL REMAIN OVER THE WESTERN PORTION. CAZ523-210300- /O.CON.KVEF.WI.Y.0009.000000T0000Z-080221T0300Z/ WESTERN MOJAVE DESERT- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...BARSTOW...DAGGETT...FT IRWIN 331 PM PST WED FEB 20 2008 ...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM PST THIS EVENING... A WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM PST THIS EVENING FOR WESTERN MOJAVE COUNTY. WEST WINDS BETWEEN 15 AND 25 MPH WITH GUSTS TO NEAR 45 MPH WILL CONTINUE THROUGH EARLY EVENING BEFORE DECREASING BY MID EVENING. DRIVERS OF VANS...CAMPERS...TRAILERS...AND OTHER HIGH-PROFILE VEHICLES SHOULD BE ALERT TO THE DANGER OF THESE WINDS...AS LOCAL CROSS WINDS MAY MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT. $$
000 WWUS75 KVEF 210258 NPWVEF URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV 658 PM PST WED FEB 20 2008 CAZ523-210400- /O.EXP.KVEF.WI.Y.0009.000000T0000Z-080221T0300Z/ WESTERN MOJAVE DESERT- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...BARSTOW...DAGGETT...FT IRWIN 658 PM PST WED FEB 20 2008 ...WIND ADVISORY WILL EXPIRE AT 7 PM PST THIS EVENING... THE WIND ADVISORY WILL EXPIRE AT 7 PM PST THIS EVENING FOR WESTERN SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY. WINDS ACROSS WESTERN SAN BERNARDINO WILL CONTINUE TO DECREASE THIS EVENING AS AN AREA OF LOW PRESSURE OVER NORTHWEST ARIZONA MOVES EAST. THE WIND ADVISORY WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE AT 700 PM PST. THE PEAK WIND GUST AT BARSTOW-DAGGETT AIRPORT WAS 46 MPH AND OCCURRED AT 351 PM. $$ PIERCE
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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.