Alert archive / Nevada / Red Flag Warnings in 2016
Red Flag Warning 6, NWS Las Vegas, NV
NWS Las Vegas, NV issued this red flag warning at Sep 3, 2016, 2:16 AM PDT for Clark County, Lincoln County, Nye County, Nevada. It took effect at Sep 3, 2016, 11:00 AM PDT. It was in force for 12 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 3, 2016, 2:16 AM PDT (09:16 UTC)
- In effect from
- Sep 3, 2016, 11:00 AM PDT
- Expired
- Sep 3, 2016, 11:00 PM PDT
- In force
- 12 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Las Vegas, NV
Counties Clark County, NV, Lincoln County, NV, Nye County, NV
The radar
The Las Vegas radar (KESX), 185 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:19 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
Las Vegas, NV (KVEF), launched 00:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 103 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3748 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 4 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -32 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -2 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
950 WWUS85 KVEF 030916 RFWVEF URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV 216 AM PDT SAT SEP 3 2016 .A TROUGH APPROACHING THE REGION WILL BRING GUSTY WINDS AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITIES TO PARTS OF THE AREA TODAY THROUGH THIS EVENING. THIS WILL LEAD TO DANGEROUS FIRE WEATHER ACROSS THE SPRING MOUNTAINS...SHEEP RANGE...AND EASTERN NYE COUNTY. NVZ462>464-031730- /O.NEW.KVEF.FW.W.0006.160903T1800Z-160904T0600Z/ NYE COUNTY DESERTS/LAS VEGAS DISPATCH-SHEEP RANGE- SPRING MOUNTAINS- 216 AM PDT SAT SEP 3 2016 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM THIS MORNING TO 11 PM PDT THIS EVENING FOR STRONG WINDS AND LOW RH FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 462...463 AND 464... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAS VEGAS HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM THIS MORNING TO 11 PM PDT THIS EVENING. * AFFECTED AREA...IN NVZ462...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 462. IN NVZ463... FIRE WEATHER ZONE 463. IN NVZ464...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 464. * TIMING...LATE THIS MORNING THROUGH LATE THIS EVENING. * WIND...SOUTHWEST WIND 15 TO 25 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 40 MPH. * HUMIDITY...5 TO 15 PERCENT. * IMPACTS...ANY FIRES THAT DEVELOP WILL LIKELY SPREAD RAPIDLY AND MAY EXHIBIT EXTREME FIRE BEHAVIOR. OUTDOOR BURNING IS NOT RECOMMENDED. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW....OR WILL SHORTLY. A COMBINATION OF STRONG WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND WARM TEMPERATURES CAN CONTRIBUTE TO EXTREME FIRE BEHAVIOR. && $$ WEATHER.GOV/LASVEGAS
2 follow-up statements
149 WWUS85 KVEF 031646 RFWVEF URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV 946 AM PDT SAT SEP 3 2016 .A TROUGH APPROACHING THE REGION WILL BRING GUSTY WINDS AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITIES TO PARTS OF THE AREA TODAY THROUGH THIS EVENING. THIS WILL LEAD TO DANGEROUS FIRE WEATHER ACROSS THE SPRING MOUNTAINS...SHEEP RANGE...AND EASTERN NYE COUNTY. NVZ462>464-040600- /O.CON.KVEF.FW.W.0006.160903T1800Z-160904T0600Z/ NYE COUNTY DESERTS/LAS VEGAS DISPATCH-SHEEP RANGE- SPRING MOUNTAINS- 946 AM PDT SAT SEP 3 2016 ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM PDT THIS EVENING FOR STRONG WINDS AND LOW RH FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 462... 463 AND 464... * AFFECTED AREA...IN NEVADA...FIRE WEATHER ZONES 462...463...AND 464. * TIMING...THROUGH LATE THIS EVENING. * WIND...SOUTHWEST WIND 15 TO 25 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 40 MPH. * HUMIDITY...5 TO 15 PERCENT. * IMPACTS...ANY FIRES THAT DEVELOP WILL LIKELY SPREAD RAPIDLY AND MAY EXHIBIT EXTREME FIRE BEHAVIOR. OUTDOOR BURNING IS NOT RECOMMENDED. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW....OR WILL SHORTLY. A COMBINATION OF STRONG WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND WARM TEMPERATURES CAN CONTRIBUTE TO EXTREME FIRE BEHAVIOR. && $$ MORGAN WEATHER.GOV/LASVEGAS
745 WWUS85 KVEF 040546 RFWVEF URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV 1046 PM PDT SAT SEP 3 2016 NVZ462>464-040700- /O.EXP.KVEF.FW.W.0006.000000T0000Z-160904T0600Z/ NYE COUNTY DESERTS/LAS VEGAS DISPATCH-SHEEP RANGE- SPRING MOUNTAINS- 1046 PM PDT SAT SEP 3 2016 ...RED FLAG WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 11 PM PDT THIS EVENING FOR STRONG WINDS AND LOW RH FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONES 462... 463 AND 464... WIND GUSTS HAVE DIMINISHED ACROSS THE AREA AND THE RED FLAG WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE AT 11 PM. $$ WEATHER.GOV/LASVEGAS
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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.