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Winter Weather Advisory 2, NWS Las Vegas, NV
NWS Las Vegas, NV issued this winter weather advisory at Feb 15, 2011, 3:06 PM PST for Inyo County, California. It took effect at Feb 16, 2011, 4:00 AM PST. It was in force for 14 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 15, 2011, 3:06 PM PST (23:06 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 16, 2011, 4:00 AM PST
- Expired
- Feb 16, 2011, 6:00 PM PST
- In force
- 14 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Las Vegas, NV
County Inyo County, CA
The nearest sounding before it
Las Vegas, NV (KVEF), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 168 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
- 1867 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 35 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 25 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this winter weather advisory went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Las Vegas, NV wrote its last area forecast discussion before this winter weather advisory went out at Feb 15, 10:00 AM PST, 5 hours 6 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 15, 10:00 AM PST, 5 hours 6 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Las Vegas, NV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 15, 4:31 AM PST | High Wind Watch | VEF | Clark, Esmeralda, Lincoln, Nye | 10 hr |
| Feb 15, 2:49 PM PST | High Wind Warning | VEF | Clark, Esmeralda, Lincoln, Nye | 31 hr |
| Feb 15, 2:49 PM PST | Wind Advisory | VEF | Clark | 31 hr |
| Feb 15, 3:06 PM PST | Winter Storm Warning | VEF | Inyo | 27 hr |
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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.