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High Wind Watch 1, NWS Reno, NV

September 27, 2013Washoe County, Nevada; Modoc County, California

NWS Reno, NV issued this high wind watch at Sep 27, 2013, 2:27 PM PDT for Washoe County, Nevada; Modoc County, California. It took effect at Sep 29, 2013, 5:00 AM PDT. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Sep 27, 2013, 2:27 PM PDT (21:27 UTC)
In effect from
Sep 29, 2013, 5:00 AM PDT
Expired
Sep 28, 2013, 2:25 PM PDT
In force
Issued by
NWS Reno, NV

Counties Modoc County, CA, Washoe County, NV

The radar

The Reno radar (KRGX), 165 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:30 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 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 257 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 12:00Z on 2013-09-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 12:00Z on 2013-09-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 16 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
721 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
16 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
97 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this high wind watch went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Reno, NV wrote its last area forecast discussion before this high wind watch went out at Sep 27, 3:03 AM PDT, 11 hours 24 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 27, 3:03 AM PDT, 11 hours 24 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 27, 2:26 PM PDTFire Weather WatchREV23 hr

Nearby

High Wind Watches in Nevada, 2013High Wind Watches in California, 2013Every high wind watch in 2013

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.