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Lake Wind Advisory 46, NWS Reno, NV

October 23, 20145 counties in Nevada; 4 counties in California

NWS Reno, NV issued this lake wind advisory at Oct 23, 2014, 2:37 PM PDT for 5 counties in Nevada; 4 counties in California. It took effect at Oct 24, 2014, 11:00 PM PDT. It was in force for 24 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Oct 23, 2014, 2:37 PM PDT (21:37 UTC)
In effect from: Oct 24, 2014, 11:00 PM PDT
Expired: Oct 25, 2014, 11:00 PM PDT
In force: 24 hr
Issued by: NWS Reno, NV

Counties Alpine County, CA, El Dorado County, CA, Nevada County, CA, Placer County, CA, Churchill County, NV, Douglas County, NV, Lyon County, NV, Pershing County, NV, Washoe County, NV

The radar

The Reno radar (KRGX), 46 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:41 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, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 128 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 2414 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 58 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 203 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 415 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 lake wind advisory 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 lake wind advisory went out at Oct 23, 3:00 AM PDT, 11 hours 37 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 23, 3:00 AM PDT, 11 hours 37 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 23, 2:37 PM PDT	Wind Advisory	REV	Churchill, Douglas, Lyon, Mineral, Pershing, Storey and 1 more	53 hr

Nearby

Lake Wind Advisories in Nevada, 2014 Lake Wind Advisories in California, 2014 Every lake wind advisory in 2014

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.