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Lake Wind Advisory 55, NWS Reno, NV

October 16, 2016Douglas County, Washoe County, Nevada; 4 counties in California

NWS Reno, NV issued this lake wind advisory at Oct 16, 2016, 10:53 AM PDT for Douglas County, Washoe County, Nevada; 4 counties in California. It was in force for 24 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Oct 16, 2016, 10:53 AM PDT (17:53 UTC)
Expired
Oct 17, 2016, 11:00 AM PDT
In force
24 hr
Issued by
NWS Reno, NV

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

The radar

The Reno radar (KRGX), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:53 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

Medford/Jackson, OR (KMFR), launched 12:00Z, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 414 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, Medford/Jackson, OR at 12:00Z on 2016-10-16Temperature 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 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Medford/Jackson, OR at 12:00Z on 2016-10-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 169 square meters per square second.1939587897117136Sfc1 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
1091 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
169 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
318 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Reno, NV issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 16, 4:00 PM PDTWinter Weather AdvisoryREVDouglas, Washoe16 hr
Oct 15, 5:47 PM PDTFlash Flood WarningREVEl Dorado6 hr
Oct 16, 11:48 AM PDTFlash Flood WarningREVEl Dorado6 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.