Alert archive / California / Wind Advisories in 2012
Wind Advisory 40, NWS Las Vegas, NV
NWS Las Vegas, NV issued this wind advisory at Jun 19, 2012, 11:00 AM PDT for San Bernardino County, California. It was in force for 10 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 19, 2012, 11:00 AM PDT (18:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 19, 2012, 9:00 PM PDT
- In force
- 10 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Las Vegas, NV
County San Bernardino County, CA
The nearest sounding before it
Las Vegas, NV (KVEF), launched 12:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 180 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
- 4421 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 26 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 55 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
568 WWUS75 KVEF 191800 NPWVEF URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV 1100 AM PDT TUE JUN 19 2012 .GUSTY SOUTHWEST WINDS WILL CONTINUE ACROSS THE WESTERN MOJAVE DESERT AND MORONGO BASIN THIS AFTERNOON. WINDS ARE EXPECTED TO INCREASE BY MID AFTERNOON AND CONTINUE INTO THE EVENING. CAZ523-525-200400- /O.NEW.KVEF.WI.Y.0040.120619T1800Z-120620T0400Z/ WESTERN MOJAVE DESERT-MORONGO BASIN- INCLUDING...BARSTOW...DAGGETT...FORT IRWIN... MORONGO VALLEY...YUCCA VALLEY...TWENTYNINE PALMS 1100 AM PDT TUE JUN 19 2012 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM PDT THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAS VEGAS HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY FOR THE WESTERN MOJAVE DESERT AND MORONGO BASIN...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM PDT THIS EVENING. * WINDS: SOUTHWEST TO WEST WINDS SUSTAINED AT 20 TO 30 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 45 MPH. * TIMING: THE STRONGEST WINDS ARE EXPECTED DURING THE LATE AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING HOURS...BEFORE GRADUALLY DIMINISHING AFTER SUNSET. * LOCATIONS: BARSTOW...DAGGETT...FORT IRWIN...YUCCA VALLEY...MORONGO VALLEY...TWENTYNINE PALMS AS WELL AS INTERSTATES 15 AND 40. * IMPACTS: STRONG WINDS WILL MAKE FOR DIFFICULT DRIVING CONDITIONS INCLUDING ALONG INTERSTATE 15...INTERSTATE 40...HIGHWAY 247...AND HIGHWAY 62. AREAS OF BLOWING SAND AND DUST WILL ABRUPTLY LOWER VISIBILITIES. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT CROSSWINDS ARE EXPECTED TO BE STRONG ENOUGH TO MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. IN ADDITION...STRONG WINDS OVER DESERT AREAS COULD RESULT IN BRIEFLY LOWERED VISIBILITIES TO WELL UNDER A MILE AT TIMES IN BLOWING DUST OR BLOWING SAND. USE EXTRA CAUTION. && $$
2 follow-up statements
313 WWUS75 KVEF 192119 NPWVEF URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV 219 PM PDT TUE JUN 19 2012 .GUSTY SOUTHWEST WINDS WILL CONTINUE ACROSS THE WESTERN MOJAVE DESERT AND MORONGO BASIN THROUGH THE EARLY EVENING HOURS. CAZ523-525-200400- /O.CON.KVEF.WI.Y.0040.000000T0000Z-120620T0400Z/ WESTERN MOJAVE DESERT-MORONGO BASIN- INCLUDING...BARSTOW...DAGGETT...FORT IRWIN... MORONGO VALLEY...YUCCA VALLEY...TWENTYNINE PALMS 219 PM PDT TUE JUN 19 2012 ...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM PDT THIS EVENING... A WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM PDT THIS EVENING. * WINDS: SOUTHWEST TO WEST WINDS SUSTAINED AT 20 TO 30 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 45 MPH. * TIMING: THE WINDS ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE THROUGH THE EARLY EVENING HOURS...BEFORE GRADUALLY DIMINISHING AFTER SUNSET. * LOCATIONS: BARSTOW...DAGGETT...FORT IRWIN...YUCCA VALLEY... MORONGO VALLEY...TWENTYNINE PALMS AS WELL AS INTERSTATES 15 AND 40. * IMPACTS: STRONG WINDS WILL MAKE FOR DIFFICULT DRIVING CONDITIONS INCLUDING ALONG INTERSTATE 15...INTERSTATE 40... HIGHWAY 247... AND HIGHWAY 62. AREAS OF BLOWING SAND AND DUST WILL ABRUPTLY LOWER VISIBILITIES. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT CROSSWINDS ARE EXPECTED TO BE STRONG ENOUGH TO MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. IN ADDITION...STRONG WINDS OVER DESERT AREAS COULD RESULT IN BRIEFLY LOWERED VISIBILITIES TO WELL UNDER A MILE AT TIMES IN BLOWING DUST OR BLOWING SAND. USE EXTRA CAUTION. && $$
003 WWUS75 KVEF 200344 NPWVEF URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV 844 PM PDT TUE JUN 19 2012 CAZ523-525-200445- /O.EXP.KVEF.WI.Y.0040.000000T0000Z-120620T0400Z/ WESTERN MOJAVE DESERT-MORONGO BASIN- INCLUDING...BARSTOW...DAGGETT...FORT IRWIN... MORONGO VALLEY...YUCCA VALLEY...TWENTYNINE PALMS 844 PM PDT TUE JUN 19 2012 ...WIND ADVISORY WILL EXPIRE AT 9 PM PDT THIS EVENING... THE WIND ADVISORY WILL EXPIRE AT 9 PM PDT THIS EVENING. LOCAL WIND GUSTS TO BETWEEN 35 AND 40 MPH WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF THE EVENING...BUT WIND SPREAD WINDS TO OVER 40 MPH ARE NO LONGER EXPECT ACROSS THE WESTERN MOJAVE DESERT AND THE MORONGO BASIN. THUS WILL ALLOW THE WIND ADVISORY TO EXPIRE AS OF 9 PM PDT THIS EVENING. $$
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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.