Alert archive / Nevada / Wind Advisories in 2014
Wind Advisory 40, NWS Las Vegas, NV
NWS Las Vegas, NV issued this wind advisory at Dec 22, 2014, 2:46 AM PST for Esmeralda County, Nye County, Nevada. It took effect at Dec 22, 2014, 10:00 AM PST. It was in force for 9 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 22, 2014, 2:46 AM PST (10:46 UTC)
- In effect from
- Dec 22, 2014, 10:00 AM PST
- Expired
- Dec 22, 2014, 7:00 PM PST
- In force
- 9 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Las Vegas, NV
Counties Esmeralda County, NV, Nye County, NV
The nearest sounding before it
Reno, NV (KREV), launched 00:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 209 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
- 1311 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 137 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 257 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
673 WWUS75 KVEF 221046 NPWVEF URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV 246 AM PST MON DEC 22 2014 ...GUSTY WINDS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING FOR SOUTH-CENTRAL NEVADA... .GUSTY NORTHWEST WINDS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP LATE THIS MORNING AND LAST THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON INTO EARLY THIS EVENING ACROSS SOUTH- CENTRAL NEVADA IN RESPONSE TO A STRONG JET STREAM PASSING ACROSS THE GREAT BASIN AS WELL AS TIGHTENING SURFACE PRESSURE GRADIENTS. NVZ014-221845- /O.NEW.KVEF.WI.Y.0040.141222T1800Z-141223T0300Z/ ESMERALDA AND CENTRAL NYE COUNTY- INCLUDING...BEATTY...GOLDFIELD...SILVER PEAK...DYER 246 AM PST MON DEC 22 2014 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 10 AM THIS MORNING TO 7 PM PST THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAS VEGAS HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY FOR ESMERALDA AND CENTRAL NYE COUNTIES...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 10 AM THIS MORNING TO 7 PM PST THIS EVENING. * WINDS: NORTHWEST AT 20 TO 30 MPH WITH GUSTS TO AROUND 45 MPH. LOCALLY HIGHER GUSTS ARE POSSIBLE IN NORMALLY WIND PRONE LOCATIONS. * TIMING: WINDS SHOULD INCREASE LATE THIS MORNING...BE STRONGEST THIS AFTERNOON AND THEN DECREASE THIS EVENING. * LOCATIONS: BEATTY...DYER...GOLDFIELD...SILVER PEAK AS WELL AS NORTHERN PORTIONS OF THE NEVADA NATIONAL SECURITY SITE. * IMPACTS: STRONG WINDS WILL MAKE TRAVEL DIFFICULT ESPECIALLY ON HIGHWAY 95 FROM NEAR TONOPAH TO BEATTY. AREAS OF BLOWING SAND AND DUST ARE POSSIBLE REDUCING VISIBILITY. LOOSE OBJECTS LEFT OUTSIDE MAY BE BLOWN AWAY INCLUDING ANY POORLY SECURED CHRISTMAS DECORATIONS. 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. && $$ STACHELSKI
2 follow-up statements
469 WWUS75 KVEF 221833 NPWVEF URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV 1033 AM PST MON DEC 22 2014 ...GUSTY WINDS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING FOR SOUTH CENTRAL NEVADA... .GUSTY NORTHWEST WINDS WILL LAST THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON INTO EARLY THIS EVENING ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL NEVADA. NVZ014-230300- /O.CON.KVEF.WI.Y.0040.000000T0000Z-141223T0300Z/ ESMERALDA AND CENTRAL NYE COUNTY- INCLUDING...BEATTY...GOLDFIELD...SILVER PEAK...DYER 1033 AM PST MON DEC 22 2014 ...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM PST THIS EVENING... A WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR ESMERALDA AND CENTRAL NYE COUNTIES UNTIL 7 PM PST THIS EVENING. * WINDS: NORTHWEST AT 20 TO 30 MPH WITH GUSTS TO AROUND 45 MPH. LOCALLY HIGHER GUSTS ARE POSSIBLE IN NORMALLY WIND PRONE LOCATIONS. AT 10 AM PST...WINDS WERE GUSTING UP TO 50 MPH ON THE NEVADA NATIONAL SECURITY SITE...AND TO 38 MPH AT TONOPAH. * TIMING: WINDS WILL PEAK THIS AFTERNOON AND THEN DECREASE THIS EVENING. * LOCATIONS: BEATTY...GOLDFIELD...SILVER PEAK...DYER * IMPACTS: STRONG WINDS WILL MAKE TRAVEL DIFFICULT ESPECIALLY ON HIGHWAY 95 FROM NEAR TONOPAH TO BEATTY. AREAS OF BLOWING SAND AND DUST MAY REDUCE VISIBILITY. LOOSE OBJECTS LEFT OUTSIDE MAY BE BLOWN AWAY INCLUDING CHRISTMAS DECORATIONS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT CROSSWINDS ARE EXPECTED TO BE STRONG ENOUGH TO MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. IN ADDITION...STRONG WINDS OVER DESERT AREAS COULD RESULT IN BRIEFLY LOWERED VISIBILITIES TO WELL UNDER A MILE AT TIMES IN BLOWING DUST OR BLOWING SAND. USE EXTRA CAUTION. && $$ MORGAN
268 WWUS75 KVEF 230240 NPWVEF URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV 640 PM PST MON DEC 22 2014 ...WIND ADVISORY WILL EXPIRE AT 7PM... NVZ014-230345- /O.EXP.KVEF.WI.Y.0040.000000T0000Z-141223T0300Z/ ESMERALDA AND CENTRAL NYE COUNTY- INCLUDING...BEATTY...GOLDFIELD...SILVER PEAK...DYER 640 PM PST MON DEC 22 2014 ...WIND ADVISORY WILL EXPIRE AT 7 PM PST THIS EVENING... THE WIND ADVISORY FOR ESMERALDA AND CENTRAL NYE COUNTIES WILL EXPIRE AT 7 PM PST THIS EVENING. GUSTY WINDS OF 20 TO 30 MPH MAY PERSIST IN SOME LOCATIONS THROUGH MIDNIGHT. $$
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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.