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Fire Weather Watch 2, NWS Reno, NV

July 6, 2016Washoe County, Nevada; Lassen County, Modoc County, California

NWS Reno, NV issued this fire weather watch at Jul 6, 2016, 9:45 AM PDT for Washoe County, Nevada; Lassen County, Modoc County, California. It took effect at Jul 8, 2016, 11:00 AM PDT. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 6, 2016, 9:45 AM PDT (16:45 UTC)
In effect from: Jul 8, 2016, 11:00 AM PDT
Expired: Jul 8, 2016, 1:57 PM PDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Reno, NV

Counties Lassen County, CA, Modoc County, CA, Washoe County, NV

The radar

The Reno radar (KRGX), 154 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:46 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this fire weather watch 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 fire weather watch went out at Jul 6, 2:54 AM PDT, 6 hours 51 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 6, 2:54 AM PDT, 6 hours 51 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
Jul 6, 9:45 AM PDT	Fire Weather Watch	REV		52 hr

Nearby

Fire Weather Watches in California, 2016 Fire Weather Watches in Nevada, 2016 Every fire weather watch in 2016

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.