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Wind Advisory 16, NWS Reno, NV
NWS Reno, NV issued this wind advisory at Dec 20, 2014, 5:46 PM PST for Washoe County, Nevada; Modoc County, California. It took effect at Dec 20, 2014, 6:00 PM PST. It was in force for 28 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 20, 2014, 5:46 PM PST (01:46 UTC)
- In effect from
- Dec 20, 2014, 6:00 PM PST
- Expired
- Dec 21, 2014, 10:00 PM PST
- In force
- 28 hr
- 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 01:47 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 00:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 242 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
- 1268 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 62 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 129 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 377 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
799 WWUS75 KREV 210146 NPWREV URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RENO NV 546 PM PST SAT DEC 20 2014 CAZ070-NVZ005-211230- /O.NEW.KREV.WI.Y.0016.141221T0200Z-141221T2300Z/ SURPRISE VALLEY CALIFORNIA-NORTHERN WASHOE COUNTY- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...CEDARVILLE...FORT BIDWELL 546 PM PST SAT DEC 20 2014 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 3 PM PST SUNDAY FOR SURPRISE VALLEY AND FAR NORTHWEST NEVADA... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RENO HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY... WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 3 PM PST SUNDAY. * TIMING: WINDS WILL INCREASE AND PEAK OVERNIGHT AND EARLY SUNDAY. * WINDS: SOUTHWEST 20 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 55 MPH. * IMPACTS: STRONG CROSS WINDS FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES ALONG SURPRISE VALLEY ROAD AND HIGHWAY 299. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... MOTORISTS...ESPECIALLY IN HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES...SHOULD USE CAUTION AND REMAIN ALERT FOR SUDDEN GUSTS OR CROSS WINDS. && $$ HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/RENO
3 follow-up statements
640 WWUS75 KREV 211032 NPWREV URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RENO NV 232 AM PST SUN DEC 21 2014 CAZ070-NVZ005-212300- /O.CON.KREV.WI.Y.0016.000000T0000Z-141221T2300Z/ SURPRISE VALLEY CALIFORNIA-NORTHERN WASHOE COUNTY- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...CEDARVILLE...FORT BIDWELL 232 AM PST SUN DEC 21 2014 ...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 3 PM PST THIS AFTERNOON... A WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 3 PM PST THIS AFTERNOON. * TIMING: WINDS WILL PEAK EARLY EARLY THIS MORNING SLOWLY TAPERING THIS AFTERNOON. * WINDS: WEST 20 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 55 MPH. * IMPACTS: STRONG CROSS WINDS FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES ALONG SURPRISE VALLEY ROAD AND HIGHWAY 299. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... MOTORISTS...ESPECIALLY IN HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES...SHOULD USE CAUTION AND REMAIN ALERT FOR SUDDEN GUSTS OR CROSS WINDS. && $$ HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/RENO
881 WWUS75 KREV 212208 NPWREV URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RENO NV 208 PM PST SUN DEC 21 2014 CAZ070-NVZ005-220600- /O.EXT.KREV.WI.Y.0016.000000T0000Z-141222T0600Z/ SURPRISE VALLEY CALIFORNIA-NORTHERN WASHOE COUNTY- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...CEDARVILLE...FORT BIDWELL 208 PM PST SUN DEC 21 2014 ...WIND ADVISORY NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM PST THIS EVENING... THE WIND ADVISORY IS NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM PST THIS EVENING. * TIMING: STRONG WINDS WILL CONTINUE INTO EARLY THIS EVENING BEFORE GRADUALLY DIMINISHING. * WINDS: WEST 20 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 55 MPH. * IMPACTS: STRONG CROSS WINDS FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES ALONG SURPRISE VALLEY ROAD AND HIGHWAY 299. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... MOTORISTS...ESPECIALLY IN HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES...SHOULD USE CAUTION AND REMAIN ALERT FOR SUDDEN GUSTS OR CROSS WINDS. && $$ HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/RENO
035 WWUS75 KREV 220605 NPWREV URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RENO NV 1005 PM PST SUN DEC 21 2014 CAZ070-NVZ005-220715- /O.EXP.KREV.WI.Y.0016.000000T0000Z-141222T0600Z/ SURPRISE VALLEY CALIFORNIA-NORTHERN WASHOE COUNTY- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...CEDARVILLE...FORT BIDWELL 1005 PM PST SUN DEC 21 2014 ...WIND ADVISORY HAS EXPIRED... THE WIND ADVISORY IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT. WINDS WERE SLOWLY DIMINISHING AND WILL CONTINUE TO DECREASE THROUGH MONDAY MORNING. MOST GUSTS WILL BE BELOW 35 MPH ALTHOUGH A FEW STRONGER GUSTS TO 45 MPH MAY OCCUR BEFORE 1 AM IN THE SURPRISE VALLEY AROUND CEDARVILLE. $$ HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/RENO
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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.