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Lake Wind Advisory 22, NWS Reno, NV
NWS Reno, NV issued this lake wind advisory at Mar 19, 2011, 5:05 AM PDT for Douglas County, Washoe County, Nevada; 4 counties in California. It took effect at Mar 19, 2011, 8:00 AM PDT. It was in force for 10 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 19, 2011, 5:05 AM PDT (12:05 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 19, 2011, 8:00 AM PDT
- Expired
- Mar 19, 2011, 8:10 AM PDT
- In force
- 10 min
- Issued by
- NWS Reno, NV
Counties Alpine County, CA, El Dorado County, CA, Nevada County, CA, Placer County, CA, Douglas County, NV, Washoe County, NV
The radar
The Reno radar (KRGX), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:06 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
Reno, NV (KREV), launched 12:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 175 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
- 682 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 60 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 58 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 Mar 19, 3:28 AM PDT, 1 hour 37 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 19, 3:28 AM PDT, 1 hour 37 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 18, 7:49 PM PDT | High Wind Watch | REV | Churchill, Douglas, Lyon, Mineral, Pershing, Storey and 1 more | 19 hr |
| Mar 19, 4:06 AM PDT | Winter Storm Watch | REV | Douglas, Washoe | 13 hr |
| Mar 19, 8:10 AM PDT | Lake Wind Advisory | REV | Douglas, Washoe | 20 hr |
| Mar 19, 8:17 AM PDT | Winter Weather Advisory | REV | Douglas, Washoe | 4 hr |
| Mar 19, 3:09 PM PDT | High Wind Warning | REV | Churchill, Lyon, Mineral, Pershing, Washoe | 25 hr |
| Mar 19, 3:09 PM PDT | Wind Advisory | REV | Douglas, Lyon, Storey, Washoe | 22 hr |
| Mar 19, 3:17 PM PDT | Winter Storm Warning | REV | Douglas, Washoe | 37 hr |
Nearby
Lake Wind Advisories in California, 2011Lake Wind Advisories in Nevada, 2011Every lake wind advisory in 2011
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.