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Lake Wind Advisory 25, NWS Reno, NV

March 25, 20115 counties in Nevada; 4 counties in California

NWS Reno, NV issued this lake wind advisory at Mar 25, 2011, 4:31 AM PDT for 5 counties in Nevada; 4 counties in California. It was in force for 15 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 25, 2011, 4:31 AM PDT (11:31 UTC)
Expired
Mar 25, 2011, 8:00 PM PDT
In force
15 hr
Issued by
NWS Reno, NV

Counties Alpine County, CA, El Dorado County, CA, Nevada County, CA, Placer County, CA, Churchill County, NV, Douglas County, NV, Lyon County, NV, Pershing County, NV, Washoe County, NV

The radar

The Reno radar (KRGX), 46 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:31 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 00:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 424 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, Medford/Jackson, OR at 00:00Z on 2011-03-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 5 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Medford/Jackson, OR at 00:00Z on 2011-03-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 14 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
5 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-48 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1477 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
14 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
65 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Reno, NV issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 25, 4:38 AM PDTWinter Weather AdvisoryREVDouglas, Washoe35 hr
Mar 25, 4:07 PM PDTWind AdvisoryREVDouglas, Lyon, Storey, Washoe31 hr

Nearby

Lake Wind Advisories in Nevada, 2011Lake Wind Advisories in California, 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.