Alert archive / California / Red Flag Warnings in 2014
Red Flag Warning 13, NWS Reno, NV
NWS Reno, NV issued this red flag warning at Jul 10, 2014, 12:10 PM PDT for Lassen County, Plumas County, Sierra County, California. It took effect at Jul 10, 2014, 11:00 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
- Jul 10, 2014, 12:10 PM PDT (19:10 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jul 10, 2014, 11:00 PM PDT
- Expired
- Jul 11, 2014, 6:39 AM PDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Reno, NV
Counties Lassen County, CA, Plumas County, CA, Sierra County, CA
The radar
The Beale AFB radar (KBBX), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:09 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, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 217 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
- 2960 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 5 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -8 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 44 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
409 WWUS85 KREV 101910 RFWREV URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RENO NV 1210 PM PDT THU JUL 10 2014 CAZ271-278-111400- /O.NEW.KREV.FW.W.0013.140711T0600Z-140711T1800Z/ WESTERN LASSEN-EASTERN PLUMAS-EASTERN SIERRA- EASTERN NEVADA COUNTIES-EASTERN LASSEN COUNTY- 1210 PM PDT THU JUL 10 2014 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 11 PM THIS EVENING TO 11 AM PDT FRIDAY FOR THUNDERSTORMS AND STRONG OUTFLOW WINDS FOR THE NORTHEASTERN SIERRA AND NORTHEASTERN CALIFORNIA... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RENO HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING FOR THUNDERSTORMS AND STRONG OUTFLOW WINDS...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 11 PM THIS EVENING TO 11 AM PDT FRIDAY. * AFFECTED AREA...FIRE ZONE 271 WESTERN LASSEN-EASTERN PLUMAS- EASTERN SIERRA-EASTERN NEVADA COUNTIES AND FIRE ZONE 278 EASTERN LASSEN COUNTY. * THUNDERSTORMS...SCATTERED ELEVATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP OVERNIGHT AND INTO EARLY FRIDAY MORNING. THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE A MIX OF WET AND DRY. * OUTFLOW WINDS...GUSTS UP TO 35 MPH POSSIBLE NEAR THUNDERSTORMS. * IMPACTS...LIGHTNING MAY CREATE NEW FIRE STARTS AND COMBINE WITH STRONG OUTFLOW WINDS TO PRODUCE RAPID FIRE GROWTH. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A RED FLAG WARNING FOR DRY LIGHTNING MEANS NUMEROUS NEW WILDFIRE STARTS FROM LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE. REPORT NEW FIRES TO 911 IMMEDIATELY. CONTINUE TO CHECK WEATHER.GOV/RENO FOR UPDATES AND PREPAREDNESS TIPS. && $$ HOON HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/RENO
1 follow-up statement
060 WWUS85 KREV 111339 RFWREV URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RENO NV 639 AM PDT FRI JUL 11 2014 CAZ271-278-111445- /O.CAN.KREV.FW.W.0013.000000T0000Z-140711T1800Z/ WESTERN LASSEN-EASTERN PLUMAS-EASTERN SIERRA- EASTERN NEVADA COUNTIES-EASTERN LASSEN COUNTY- 639 AM PDT FRI JUL 11 2014 ...RED FLAG WARNING IS CANCELLED FOR THUNDERSTORMS WITH OUTFLOW WINDS FOR NORTHEAST CALIFORNIA... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RENO HAS CANCELLED THE RED FLAG WARNING. INSTABILITY HAS WANED THIS MORNING WITH ONLY SHOWERS ACROSS NORTHEAST CALIFORNIA. WHILE ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL FORM LATER THIS AFTERNOON...THE RED FLAG WARNING IS CANCELED. $$ HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/RENO
The office that day
Everything else NWS Reno, NV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 10, 12:40 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | REV | Mono | 50 min |
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.