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Lake Wind Advisory 35, NWS Reno, NV

June 15, 20165 counties in Nevada; 4 counties in California

NWS Reno, NV issued this lake wind advisory at Jun 15, 2016, 9:47 AM PDT for 5 counties in Nevada; 4 counties in California. It took effect at Jun 16, 2016, 11:00 AM PDT. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 15, 2016, 9:47 AM PDT (16:47 UTC)
In effect from
Jun 16, 2016, 11:00 AM PDT
Expired
Jun 16, 2016, 5:55 PM PDT
In force
7 hr
Issued by
NWS Reno, NV

Counties Alpine County, CA, El Dorado County, CA, Nevada County, CA, Placer County, CA, Churchill County, NV, Douglas County, NV, Lyon County, NV, Pershing County, NV, Washoe County, NV

The radar

The Reno radar (KRGX), 46 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:44 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 4.8 hours before the alert went out and 128 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Reno, NV at 12:00Z on 2016-06-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Reno, NV at 12:00Z on 2016-06-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 79 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1718 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
72 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
79 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
294 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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.