Alert archive / California / Wind Advisories in 2016
Wind Advisory 3, NWS Las Vegas, NV
NWS Las Vegas, NV issued this wind advisory at Jan 21, 2016, 2:04 PM PST for Inyo County, California. It took effect at Jan 22, 2016, 12:00 AM PST. It was in force for 15 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 21, 2016, 2:04 PM PST (22:04 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 22, 2016, 12:00 AM PST
- Expired
- Jan 22, 2016, 3:00 PM PST
- In force
- 15 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Las Vegas, NV
County Inyo County, CA
The radar
The Edwards AFB radar (KEYX), 158 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:08 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 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 168 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
- 2018 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -133 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -57 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
599 WWUS75 KVEF 212204 NPWVEF URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV 204 PM PST THU JAN 21 2016 CAZ519-220830- /O.NEW.KVEF.WI.Y.0003.160122T0800Z-160122T2300Z/ EASTERN SIERRA SLOPES- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...ASPENDELL...MT WHITNEY 204 PM PST THU JAN 21 2016 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM MIDNIGHT TONIGHT TO 3 PM PST FRIDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAS VEGAS HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM MIDNIGHT TONIGHT TO 3 PM PST FRIDAY. * TIMING...WINDS WILL INCREASE OVERNIGHT...PEAK MID-DAY FRIDAY THEN DECREASE FRIDAY AFTERNOON. * WINDS...SOUTHWEST 35 TO 45 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 65 MPH. * IMPACTS...STRONG CROSSWINDS AND AREAS OF BLOWING SNOW COULD CREATE HAZARDOUS TRAVEL CONDITIONS. LIGHT TREE DAMAGE IS ALSO POSSIBLE. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... CHECK WEATHER AND ROAD CONDITIONS BEFORE TRAVELING. USE CAUTION IF TRAVELING AND USE HEADLIGHTS IF AREAS OF BLOWING SNOW ARE ENCOUNTERED. && $$ WOLCOTT
2 follow-up statements
521 WWUS75 KVEF 220849 NPWVEF URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV 1249 AM PST FRI JAN 22 2016 CAZ519-222300- /O.CON.KVEF.WI.Y.0003.000000T0000Z-160122T2300Z/ EASTERN SIERRA SLOPES- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...ASPENDELL...MT WHITNEY 1249 AM PST FRI JAN 22 2016 ...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 3 PM PST THIS AFTERNOON... * TIMING...WINDS WILL INCREASE OVERNIGHT...PEAK MID-DAY FRIDAY THEN DECREASE FRIDAY AFTERNOON. * WINDS...SOUTHWEST 35 TO 45 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 65 MPH. * IMPACTS...STRONG CROSSWINDS AND AREAS OF BLOWING SNOW COULD CREATE HAZARDOUS TRAVEL CONDITIONS. LIGHT TREE DAMAGE IS ALSO POSSIBLE. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... CHECK WEATHER AND ROAD CONDITIONS BEFORE TRAVELING. USE CAUTION IF TRAVELING AND USE HEADLIGHTS IF AREAS OF BLOWING SNOW ARE ENCOUNTERED. && $$
206 WWUS75 KVEF 222254 NPWVEF URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV 254 PM PST FRI JAN 22 2016 CAZ519-230000- /O.EXP.KVEF.WI.Y.0003.000000T0000Z-160122T2300Z/ EASTERN SIERRA SLOPES- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...ASPENDELL...MT WHITNEY 254 PM PST FRI JAN 22 2016 ...WIND ADVISORY WILL EXPIRE AT 3 PM PST THIS AFTERNOON... STRONG WINDS WILL DIMINISH AS PRECIPITATION INCREASES ACROSS THE EASTERN SIERRA SLOPES THROUGH THE LATE AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING HOURS. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Las Vegas, NV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 21, 2:04 PM PST | Winter Weather Advisory | VEF | Inyo | 50 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.