Alert archive / California / Wind Advisories in 2016
Wind Advisory 4, NWS Las Vegas, NV
NWS Las Vegas, NV issued this wind advisory at Jan 23, 2016, 10:48 AM PST for San Bernardino County, California. It took effect at Jan 23, 2016, 7:00 PM PST. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 23, 2016, 10:48 AM PST (18:48 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 23, 2016, 7:00 PM PST
- Expired
- Jan 24, 2016, 2:51 AM PST
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Las Vegas, NV
County San Bernardino County, CA
The radar
The Edwards AFB radar (KEYX), 129 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:50 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, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 180 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
- 2436 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 64 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 184 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
409 WWUS75 KVEF 231848 NPWVEF URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV 1048 AM PST SAT JAN 23 2016 CAZ523-525-241200- /O.NEW.KVEF.WI.Y.0004.160124T0300Z-160124T1200Z/ WESTERN MOJAVE DESERT-MORONGO BASIN- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...BARSTOW...DAGGETT...FORT IRWIN... MORONGO VALLEY...YUCCA VALLEY...TWENTYNINE PALMS 1048 AM PST SAT JAN 23 2016 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 7 PM THIS EVENING TO 4 AM PST SUNDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAS VEGAS HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 7 PM THIS EVENING TO 4 AM PST SUNDAY. * TIMING...WINDS WILL RAPIDLY INCREASE THIS EVENING...PEAK AROUND MIDNIGHT...THEN DECREASE BY SUNRISE. * WINDS...WEST TO NORTHWEST 25 TO 35 MPH...WITH GUSTS 40 TO 50 MPH. ISOLATED STRONGER GUSTS ARE POSSIBLE. * IMPACTS...DIFFICULT DRIVING CONDITIONS FROM STRONG CROSSWINDS. AREAS OF BLOWING SAND AND DUST COULD LOWER VISIBILITIES LOCALLY TO LESS THAN A MILE AT TIMES. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... BE PREPARED TO ENCOUNTER STRONG CROSSWINDS ON INTERSTATE 15, INTERSTATE 40, AND STATE HIGHWAY 62. DRIVERS SHOULD USE EXTRA CAUTION AS BLOWING SAND OR DUST COULD RAPIDLY REDUCE VISIBILITIES AT TIMES. && $$ CMS
1 follow-up statement
262 WWUS75 KVEF 241051 NPWVEF URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV 251 AM PST SUN JAN 24 2016 CAZ523-525-241200- /O.CAN.KVEF.WI.Y.0004.000000T0000Z-160124T1200Z/ WESTERN MOJAVE DESERT-MORONGO BASIN- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...BARSTOW...DAGGETT...FORT IRWIN... MORONGO VALLEY...YUCCA VALLEY...TWENTYNINE PALMS 251 AM PST SUN JAN 24 2016 ...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAS VEGAS HAS CANCELLED THE WIND ADVISORY. WINDS HAVE DECREASED ACROSS MUCH OF SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY THIS MORNING WITH MOST GUSTS REMAINING BELOW 30 MPH. THEREFORE THE WIND ADVISORY HAS BEEN CANCELLED. $$
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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.