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Blowing Dust Advisory 3, NWS Reno, NV

August 28, 20154 counties in Nevada

NWS Reno, NV issued this blowing dust advisory at Aug 28, 2015, 4:00 AM PDT for 4 counties in Nevada. It took effect at Aug 29, 2015, 8:00 AM PDT. It was in force for 13 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Aug 28, 2015, 4:00 AM PDT (11:00 UTC)
In effect from: Aug 29, 2015, 8:00 AM PDT
Expired: Aug 29, 2015, 9:00 PM PDT
In force: 13 hr
Issued by: NWS Reno, NV

Counties Churchill County, NV, Lyon County, NV, Pershing County, NV, Washoe County, NV

The radar

The Reno radar (KRGX), 52 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:01 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.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this blowing dust 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 blowing dust advisory went out at Aug 28, 3:51 AM PDT, 9 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 28, 3:51 AM PDT, 9 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
Aug 28, 4:00 AM PDT	Lake Wind Advisory	REV	Douglas, Washoe	47 hr
Aug 28, 4:00 AM PDT	Wind Advisory	REV	Douglas, Lyon, Storey, Washoe	38 hr
Aug 28, 4:07 AM PDT	Red Flag Warning	REV		41 hr

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.