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Lake Wind Advisory 9, NWS Reno, NV

February 17, 20165 counties in Nevada; 4 counties in California

NWS Reno, NV issued this lake wind advisory at Feb 17, 2016, 6:37 PM PST for 5 counties in Nevada; 4 counties in California. It took effect at Feb 18, 2016, 6:00 AM PST. It was in force for 12 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Feb 17, 2016, 6:37 PM PST (02:37 UTC)
In effect from: Feb 18, 2016, 6:00 AM PST
Expired: Feb 18, 2016, 6:00 PM PST
In force: 12 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 02:37 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Oakland, CA (KOAK), launched 00:00Z, 2.6 hours before the alert went out and 286 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1589 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 62 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 63 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 205 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this lake wind 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 lake wind advisory went out at Feb 17, 2:06 PM PST, 4 hours 31 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 17, 2:06 PM PST, 4 hours 31 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Feb 17, 5:59 PM PST, 38 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RENO NV
559 PM PST WED FEB 17 2016

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0644 AM     NON-TSTM WND GST 5 WSW GARDNERVILLE      38.91N 119.83W
02/17/2016  M62.00 MPH       DOUGLAS            NV   TRAINED SPOTTER

0223 PM     NON-TSTM WND GST 3 SE RENO               39.51N 119.78W
02/17/2016  M58.00 MPH       WASHOE             NV   ASOS

            PEAK GUST AT THE RENO AIRPORT

0331 PM     NON-TSTM WND GST 3 SE SUSANVILLE         40.38N 120.61W
02/17/2016  M62.00 MPH       LASSEN             CA   AWOS

            PEAK GUST AT THE SUSANVILLE AIRPORT

0520 PM     NON-TSTM WND GST 5 NE RENO               39.59N 119.76W
02/17/2016  M59.00 MPH       WASHOE             NV   OFFICIAL NWS OBS

            60 MPH WIND GUST MEASURED AT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
            FORECAST OFFICE.

&&

JWALLMAN

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Feb 18, 2:11 PM PST	Lake Wind Advisory	REV	Churchill, Douglas, Lyon, Pershing, Washoe	32 hr

Nearby

Lake Wind Advisories in Nevada, 2016 Lake Wind Advisories in California, 2016 Every lake wind advisory 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.