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Wind Advisory 4, NWS Las Vegas, NV

January 23, 2016San Bernardino County, California

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Las Vegas, NV at 12:00Z on 2016-01-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Las Vegas, NV at 12:00Z on 2016-01-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 64 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
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

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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.