Alert archive / Nevada / High Wind Watches in 2009
High Wind Watch 6, NWS Reno, NV
NWS Reno, NV issued this high wind watch at Nov 18, 2009, 12:44 PM PST for 5 counties in Nevada; Modoc County, Mono County, California. It took effect at Nov 20, 2009, 8:00 AM PST. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 18, 2009, 12:44 PM PST (20:44 UTC)
- In effect from
- Nov 20, 2009, 8:00 AM PST
- Expired
- Nov 19, 2009, 11:35 AM PST
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Reno, NV
Counties Modoc County, CA, Mono County, CA, Douglas County, NV, Lyon County, NV, Mineral County, NV, Storey County, NV, Washoe County, NV
The radar
The Reno radar (KRGX), 34 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:46 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
Medford/Jackson, OR (KMFR), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 431 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
- 652 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 111 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 164 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this high wind watch 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 high wind watch went out at Nov 18, 4:55 AM PST, 7 hours 49 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Nov 18, 4:55 AM PST, 7 hours 49 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 18, 12:44 PM PST | Winter Storm Watch | REV | Douglas, Washoe | 23 hr |
Nearby
High Wind Watches in Nevada, 2009High Wind Watches in California, 2009Every high wind watch in 2009
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.