Alert archive / Nevada / Red Flag Warnings in 2012
Red Flag Warning 27, NWS Reno, NV
NWS Reno, NV issued this red flag warning at Oct 3, 2012, 3:25 PM PDT for Washoe County, Nevada. It took effect at Oct 4, 2012, 12:00 PM PDT. It was in force for 8 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 3, 2012, 3:25 PM PDT (22:25 UTC)
- In effect from
- Oct 4, 2012, 12:00 PM PDT
- Expired
- Oct 4, 2012, 8:00 PM PDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Reno, NV
County Washoe County, NV
The radar
The Reno radar (KRGX), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:23 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, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 174 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
- 4036 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -5 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 100 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
435 WWUS85 KREV 032225 RFWREV URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RENO NV 325 PM PDT WED OCT 3 2012 NVZ458-041100- /O.NEW.KREV.FW.W.0027.121004T1900Z-121005T0300Z/ NORTHERN WASHOE COUNTY- 325 PM PDT WED OCT 3 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM NOON TO 8 PM PDT THURSDAY FOR GUSTY WINDS AND LOW HUMIDITY FOR NORTHERN WASHOE COUNTY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RENO HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING FOR GUSTY WINDS AND LOW HUMIDITY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM NOON TO 8 PM PDT THURSDAY. * AFFECTED AREA...FIRE ZONE 458 NORTHERN WASHOE COUNTY. * WINDS...WEST 15 TO 20 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 35 MPH. * HUMIDITY...10 TO 15%. * IMPACTS...THE COMBINATION OF GUSTY WINDS AND LOW HUMIDITY WILL CREATE CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS WILL OCCUR. CONTINUE TO CHECK WEATHER.GOV/RENO FOR UPDATES. && $$ HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/RENO
3 follow-up statements
241 WWUS85 KREV 041011 RFWREV URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RENO NV 311 AM PDT THU OCT 4 2012 NVZ458-042300- /O.CON.KREV.FW.W.0027.121004T1900Z-121005T0300Z/ NORTHERN WASHOE COUNTY- 311 AM PDT THU OCT 4 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 8 PM PDT THIS EVENING FOR GUSTY WINDS AND LOW HUMIDITY FOR NORTHERN WASHOE COUNTY... * AFFECTED AREA...FIRE ZONE 458 NORTHERN WASHOE COUNTY. * WINDS...WEST 15 TO 20 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 35 MPH. * HUMIDITY...7 TO 13%. * IMPACTS...THE COMBINATION OF GUSTY WINDS AND LOW HUMIDITY WILL CREATE CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS WILL OCCUR. CONTINUE TO CHECK WEATHER.GOV/RENO FOR UPDATES. && $$ HOON HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/RENO
165 WWUS85 KREV 042156 RFWREV URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RENO NV 256 PM PDT THU OCT 4 2012 NVZ458-050300- /O.CON.KREV.FW.W.0027.000000T0000Z-121005T0300Z/ NORTHERN WASHOE COUNTY- 256 PM PDT THU OCT 4 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM PDT THIS EVENING FOR GUSTY WINDS AND LOW HUMIDITY FOR NORTHERN WASHOE COUNTY... * AFFECTED AREA...FIRE ZONE 458 NORTHERN WASHOE COUNTY. * WINDS...WEST 15 TO 20 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 35 MPH. * HUMIDITY...7 TO 13%. * IMPACTS...THE COMBINATION OF GUSTY WINDS AND LOW HUMIDITY WILL CREATE CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS WILL OCCUR. CONTINUE TO CHECK WEATHER.GOV/RENO FOR UPDATES. && $$ HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/RENO
509 WWUS85 KREV 050253 RFWREV URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RENO NV 753 PM PDT THU OCT 4 2012 NVZ458-050400- /O.EXP.KREV.FW.W.0027.000000T0000Z-121005T0300Z/ NORTHERN WASHOE COUNTY- 753 PM PDT THU OCT 4 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 8 PM PDT THIS EVENING FOR GUSTY WINDS AND LOW HUMIDITY FOR NORTHERN WASHOE COUNTY... WINDS HAVE DIMINISHED OVER NORTHWEST NEVADA THIS EVENING. LIGHTER WINDS WILL CONTINUE OVERNIGHT WITH RISING HUMIDITY...SO THE RED FLAG WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE AT 8 PM. $$ MJD HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/RENO
Nearby
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.