Alert archive / Nevada / Red Flag Warnings in 2012
Red Flag Warning 23, NWS Las Vegas, NV
NWS Las Vegas, NV issued this red flag warning at Jun 27, 2012, 3:42 AM PDT for Lincoln County, Nevada. It took effect at Jun 27, 2012, 11:00 AM PDT. It was in force for 9 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
- Jun 27, 2012, 3:42 AM PDT (10:42 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jun 27, 2012, 11:00 AM PDT
- Expired
- Jun 27, 2012, 8:00 PM PDT
- In force
- 9 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Las Vegas, NV
County Lincoln County, NV
The radar
The Cedar City radar (KICX), 178 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:43 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
Las Vegas, NV (KVEF), launched 00:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 153 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
- 6415 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -12 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 110 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
622 WWUS85 KVEF 271042 RFWVEF URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV 342 AM PDT WED JUN 27 2012 NVZ461-271930- /O.NEW.KVEF.FW.W.0023.120627T1800Z-120628T0300Z/ LINCOLN COUNTY/ELY DISPATCH- 342 AM PDT WED JUN 27 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM THIS MORNING TO 8 PM PDT THIS EVENING FOR STRONG WINDS AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONE 461... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAS VEGAS HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING FOR STRONG WINDS AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM THIS MORNING TO 8 PM PDT THIS EVENING. * AFFECTED AREA...IN NEVADA...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 461 LINCOLN COUNTY/ELY DISPATCH. PRIMARILY NORTH OF A LINE FROM ALAMO TO ELGIN. * TIMING...WIND SPEEDS WILL INCREASE THROUGH THE MORNING WITH GUSTS REACHING CRITICAL LEVELS FROM EARLY AFTERNOON THROUGH EARLY EVENING. * WIND...SOUTH TO SOUTHWEST 20 TO 25 MPH WITH GUSTS BETWEEN 35 AND 40 MPH. * HUMIDITY...MINIMUM VALUES OF 3 TO 7 PERCENT. * IMPACTS...ANY FIRES THAT DO DEVELOP WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO SPREAD RAPIDLY. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING OR ARE IMMINENT. OUTDOOR BURNING IS NOT RECOMMENDED. && $$ HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/LASVEGAS
2 follow-up statements
368 WWUS85 KVEF 272135 RFWVEF URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV 235 PM PDT WED JUN 27 2012 NVZ461-280300- /O.CON.KVEF.FW.W.0023.000000T0000Z-120628T0300Z/ LINCOLN COUNTY/ELY DISPATCH- 235 PM PDT WED JUN 27 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM PDT THIS EVENING FOR STRONG WINDS AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONE 461... * AFFECTED AREA...IN NEVADA...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 461 LINCOLN COUNTY/ELY DISPATCH. * TIMING...THROUGH EARLY THIS EVENING. * WIND...SOUTH TO SOUTHWEST 20 TO 25 MPH WITH GUSTS BETWEEN 35 AND 40 MPH. * HUMIDITY...MINIMUM VALUES OF 3 TO 7 PERCENT. * IMPACTS...ANY FIRES THAT DO DEVELOP WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO SPREAD RAPIDLY. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING OR ARE IMMINENT. OUTDOOR BURNING IS NOT RECOMMENDED. && $$ HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/LASVEGAS
116 WWUS85 KVEF 280321 RFWVEF URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV 821 PM PDT WED JUN 27 2012 NVZ461-280430- /O.EXP.KVEF.FW.W.0023.000000T0000Z-120628T0300Z/ LINCOLN COUNTY/ELY DISPATCH- 821 PM PDT WED JUN 27 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING HAS EXPIRED FOR STRONG WINDS AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONE 461... OBSERVATIONS OF WIDESPREAD STRONG WINDS ACROSS LINCOLN COUNTY ARE BECOMING MORE ISOLATED. THE WIND WILL CONTINUE TO DIMINISH OVERNIGHT. HOWEVER...POOR HUMIDITY RECOVERY WILL CONTINUE AS THE AREA REMAINS UNDER A DRY SOUTHWEST FLOW. $$ HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/LASVEGAS
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.