Alert archive / Nevada / Wind Advisories in 2016
Wind Advisory 25, NWS Las Vegas, NV
NWS Las Vegas, NV issued this wind advisory at May 20, 2016, 10:55 PM PDT for Clark County, Nye County, Nevada. It took effect at May 20, 2016, 11:00 PM PDT. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 20, 2016, 10:55 PM PDT (05:55 UTC)
- In effect from
- May 20, 2016, 11:00 PM PDT
- Expired
- May 21, 2016, 5:00 AM PDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Las Vegas, NV
Counties Clark County, NV, Nye County, NV
The radar
The Las Vegas radar (KESX), 176 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:00 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, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 86 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
- 3815 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 27 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 239 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
219 WWUS75 KVEF 210555 NPWVEF URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV 1055 PM PDT FRI MAY 20 2016 NVZ019-211200- /O.CAN.KVEF.HW.W.0012.000000T0000Z-160521T1200Z/ /O.NEW.KVEF.WI.Y.0025.160521T0600Z-160521T1200Z/ SPRING MOUNTAINS-RED ROCK CANYON- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...THE TOWN OF MT CHARLESTON... RED ROCK CANYON 1055 PM PDT FRI MAY 20 2016 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 AM PDT SATURDAY... ...HIGH WIND WARNING IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAS VEGAS HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 AM PDT SATURDAY. THE HIGH WIND WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED. * TIMING...SOUTHWEST WINDS WILL REMAIN GUSTY OVERNIGHT BEFORE GRADUALLY DIMINISHING TOWARD SUNRISE. * WINDS...30 TO 40 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 50 MPH. * IMPACTS...TRAVEL MAY BE DIFFICULT DUE TO STRONG CROSSWINDS. TEMPORARY STRUCTURES MAY BE DAMAGED OR DISPLACED. POCKETS OF BLOWING DUST MAY REDUCE VISIBILITY AND MAKE TRAVEL HAZARDOUS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND ADVISORY MEANS STRONG WINDS GUSTING OVER 40 MPH CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. && $$ AZZ001>003-036-CAZ521>525-527-NVZ014>018-020>022-210700- /O.EXP.KVEF.WI.Y.0024.000000T0000Z-160521T0600Z/ NORTHWEST PLATEAU-LAKE HAVASU AND FORT MOHAVE-NORTHWEST DESERTS- LAKE MEAD NATIONAL RECREATION AREA-WHITE MOUNTAINS OF INYO COUNTY- DEATH VALLEY NATIONAL PARK-WESTERN MOJAVE DESERT- EASTERN MOJAVE DESERT-MORONGO BASIN-SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY- UPPER COLORADO RIVER VALLEY-ESMERALDA AND CENTRAL NYE COUNTY- LINCOLN COUNTY-NORTHEAST CLARK COUNTY- WESTERN CLARK AND SOUTHERN NYE COUNTY-SHEEP RANGE- LAS VEGAS VALLEY-SOUTHERN CLARK COUNTY- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...COLORADO CITY... PIPE SPRING NATIONAL MONUMENT...TUWEEP...MT TRUMBELL... WESTERN GRAND CANYON...LAKE HAVASU CITY...DESERT HILLS...TOPOCK... KINGMAN...GOLDEN VALLEY...DOLAN SPRINGS...VALENTINE...WIKIEUP... YUCCA...BULLHEAD CITY...OATMAN...MOHAVE VALLEY...WESTGARD PASS... BRISTLECONE PINE...FURNACE CREEK...STOVEPIPE WELLS...SHOSHONE... BARSTOW...DAGGETT...FORT IRWIN...BAKER...MOUNTAIN PASS... MITCHELL CAVERNS...MORONGO VALLEY...YUCCA VALLEY... TWENTYNINE PALMS...NEEDLES...BEATTY...GOLDFIELD...SILVER PEAK... DYER...CALIENTE...PIOCHE...PANACA...HIKO...ALAMO...RACHEL... MESQUITE...OVERTON...MOAPA...PAHRUMP...INDIAN SPRINGS... DESERT ROCK...AMARGOSA VALLEY...LAS VEGAS...NORTH LAS VEGAS... HENDERSON...BOULDER CITY...HOOVER DAM...LAUGHLIN...PRIMM.... SEARCHLIGHT...CAL-NEV-ARI 1055 PM PDT FRI MAY 20 2016 /1055 PM MST FRI MAY 20 2016/ ...WIND ADVISORY WILL EXPIRE AT 11 PM PDT /11 PM MST/ THIS EVENING... GUSTY WINDS ARE STILL EXPECTED TO OCCUR OVERNIGHT...BUT ARE EXPECTED TO REMAIN BELOW ADVISORY LEVELS. $$
1 follow-up statement
053 WWUS75 KVEF 211143 NPWVEF URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV 443 AM PDT SAT MAY 21 2016 NVZ019-211245- /O.EXP.KVEF.WI.Y.0025.000000T0000Z-160521T1200Z/ SPRING MOUNTAINS-RED ROCK CANYON- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...THE TOWN OF MT CHARLESTON... RED ROCK CANYON 443 AM PDT SAT MAY 21 2016 ...WIND ADVISORY WILL EXPIRE AT 5 AM PDT EARLY THIS MORNING... WINDS ARE BEGINNING TO DECREASE EARLY THIS MORNING. THOUGH BREEZY CONDITIONS WILL CONTINUE TODAY...WINDS ARE EXPECTED TO BE BELOW ADVISORY CRITERIA. THEREFORE...THE WIND ADVISORY WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. $$ CMS
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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.