Alert archive / California / Wind Advisories in 2016
Wind Advisory 40, NWS Las Vegas, NV
NWS Las Vegas, NV issued this wind advisory at Nov 22, 2016, 1:54 PM PST for Inyo County, California. It took effect at Nov 23, 2016, 6:00 AM PST. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 22, 2016, 1:54 PM PST (21:54 UTC)
- In effect from
- Nov 23, 2016, 6:00 AM PST
- Expired
- Nov 23, 2016, 2:00 PM PST
- In force
- 8 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 21:51 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, 9.9 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
- 1714 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 18 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 35 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
085 WWUS75 KVEF 222154 NPWVEF URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV 154 PM PST TUE NOV 22 2016 CAZ519-520-231100- /O.NEW.KVEF.WI.Y.0040.161123T1400Z-161123T2200Z/ EASTERN SIERRA SLOPES-OWENS VALLEY- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...ASPENDELL...MT WHITNEY...BISHOP... INDEPENDENCE...LONE PINE...OLANCHA 154 PM PST TUE NOV 22 2016 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 6 AM TO 2 PM PST WEDNESDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAS VEGAS HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 6 AM TO 2 PM PST WEDNESDAY. * TIMING...CONDITIONS WILL BE FAVORABLE FOR STRONG DOWNSLOPE WINDS TO SURFACE IN THE WESTERN OWENS VALLEY AND LOWER EASTERN SIERRA SLOPES BETWEEN 6 AM AND NOON PST WEDNESDAY. WINDS WILL ABRUPTLY CHANGE TO A NORTH DIRECTION WITH GUSTS OVER 40 MPH EXPECTED THROUGH EARLY IN THE AFTERNOON. * WINDS...WEST WINDS GUSTING 40 TO 55 MPH IN PORTIONS OF THE WESTERN OWENS VALLEY FOLLOWED BY NORTH WINDS GUSTING 40 TO 45 MPH. * IMPACTS...WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT AND CAN BE HAZARDOUS TO HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. AREAS OF BLOWING DUST CAN BE EXPECTED WHICH MAY REDUCE VISIBILITY. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... MOTORCYCLE RIDERS AND DRIVERS OF VANS...CAMPERS...TRAILERS AND ANY OTHER HIGH PROFILE VEHICLE SHOULD BE ALERT TO THE DANGER OF THESE STRONG WINDS. USE EXTRA CAUTION IF PLANNING TO TRAVEL HIGHWAY 395 IN THE OWENS VALLEY WEDNESDAY MORNING THROUGH EARLY AFTERNOON. && $$
2 follow-up statements
529 WWUS75 KVEF 231025 NPWVEF URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV 225 AM PST WED NOV 23 2016 CAZ519-520-232200- /O.CON.KVEF.WI.Y.0040.161123T1400Z-161123T2200Z/ EASTERN SIERRA SLOPES-OWENS VALLEY- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...ASPENDELL...MT WHITNEY...BISHOP... INDEPENDENCE...LONE PINE...OLANCHA 225 AM PST WED NOV 23 2016 ...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 6 AM THIS MORNING TO 2 PM PST THIS AFTERNOON... * TIMING...CONDITIONS WILL BE FAVORABLE FOR STRONG DOWNSLOPE WINDS TO SURFACE IN THE WESTERN OWENS VALLEY AND LOWER EASTERN SIERRA SLOPES BETWEEN 6 AM AND NOON PST TODAY. WINDS WILL ABRUPTLY CHANGE TO A NORTH DIRECTION WITH GUSTS OVER 40 MPH EXPECTED THROUGH EARLY IN THE AFTERNOON. * WINDS...WEST WINDS GUSTING 40 TO 55 MPH IN PORTIONS OF THE WESTERN OWENS VALLEY FOLLOWED BY NORTH WINDS GUSTING 40 TO 45 MPH. * IMPACTS...WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT AND CAN BE HAZARDOUS TO HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. AREAS OF BLOWING DUST CAN BE EXPECTED WHICH MAY REDUCE VISIBILITY. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... MOTORCYCLE RIDERS AND DRIVERS OF VANS...CAMPERS...TRAILERS AND ANY OTHER HIGH PROFILE VEHICLE SHOULD BE ALERT TO THE DANGER OF THESE STRONG WINDS. USE EXTRA CAUTION IF PLANNING TO TRAVEL HIGHWAY 395 IN THE OWENS VALLEY THIS MORNING THROUGH EARLY AFTERNOON. && $$
082 WWUS75 KVEF 232139 NPWVEF URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV 139 PM PST WED NOV 23 2016 CAZ519-520-232245- /O.EXP.KVEF.WI.Y.0040.000000T0000Z-161123T2200Z/ EASTERN SIERRA SLOPES-OWENS VALLEY- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...ASPENDELL...MT WHITNEY...BISHOP... INDEPENDENCE...LONE PINE...OLANCHA 139 PM PST WED NOV 23 2016 ...WIND ADVISORY WILL EXPIRE AT 2 PM PST THIS AFTERNOON... THE THREAT OF STRONG WESTERLY DOWNSLOPE WINDS HAS ENDED. BRISK NORTHERLY WINDS BEHIND A COLD FRONT WERE WORKING SOUTHWARD THROUGH THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON. THERE COULD BE BRIEF ISOLATED GUSTS NEAR 40 MPH THROUGH 4 PM BUT OVERALL THE THREAT OF STRONG WINDS HAS DECREASED AND THE WIND ADVISORY WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. $$ AZZ002-036-CAZ527-NVZ021-241230- /O.NEW.KVEF.WI.Y.0041.161124T1200Z-161125T0300Z/ LAKE HAVASU AND FORT MOHAVE-LAKE MEAD NATIONAL RECREATION AREA- SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY-UPPER COLORADO RIVER VALLEY- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...LAKE HAVASU CITY...DESERT HILLS... TOPOCK...BULLHEAD CITY...OATMAN...MOHAVE VALLEY...NEEDLES... HOOVER DAM...LAUGHLIN 139 PM PST WED NOV 23 2016 /239 PM MST WED NOV 23 2016/ ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 4 AM PST /5 AM MST/ TO 7 PM PST /8 PM MST/ THURSDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAS VEGAS HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 4 AM PST /5 AM MST/ TO 7 PM PST /8 PM MST/ THURSDAY. * TIMING...WINDS WILL INCREASE EARLY THANKSGIVING MORNING AND WILL BE STRONG THROUGHOUT THE DAY BEFORE DECREASING EARLY IN THE EVENING. THE STRONGEST WINDS WILL BE SOUTH OF HOOVER DAM. * WINDS...NORTH 20 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 45 MPH SOUTH OF HOOVER DAM. WINDS ON LAKE MEAD WILL BE CONSIDERABLY LIGHTER. * IMPACTS...DIFFICULT DRIVING DUE TO CROSSWINDS ON WEST-EAST ORIENTED ROADS. LOOSE OBJECTS WILL BE BLOWN AROUND AND ROUGH BOATING CONDITIONS CAN BE EXPECTED ON LAKE MOHAVE AND LAKE HAVASU AND ALONG THE COLORADO RIVER. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND ADVISORY MEANS STRONG WINDS GUSTING OVER 40 MPH CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. && $$
Nearby
Wind Advisories in California, 2016Every wind advisory in 2016
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.