Alert archive / California / Wind Advisories in 2016
Wind Advisory 50, NWS Las Vegas, NV
NWS Las Vegas, NV issued this wind advisory at Dec 24, 2016, 2:14 AM PST for San Bernardino County, California. It took effect at Dec 24, 2016, 7:00 AM PST. It was in force for 15 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 24, 2016, 2:14 AM PST (10:14 UTC)
- In effect from
- Dec 24, 2016, 7:00 AM PST
- Expired
- Dec 24, 2016, 10:00 PM PST
- In force
- 15 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 10:17 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, 10.2 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
- 1122 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 135 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 223 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
543 WWUS75 KVEF 241014 NPWVEF URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV 214 AM PST SAT DEC 24 2016 CAZ523-525-250000- /O.NEW.KVEF.WI.Y.0050.161224T1500Z-161225T0600Z/ WESTERN MOJAVE DESERT-MORONGO BASIN- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...BARSTOW...DAGGETT...FORT IRWIN... MORONGO VALLEY...YUCCA VALLEY...TWENTYNINE PALMS 214 AM PST SAT DEC 24 2016 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 7 AM THIS MORNING TO 10 PM PST THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAS VEGAS HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 7 AM THIS MORNING TO 10 PM PST THIS EVENING FOR THE WESTERN MOJAVE DESERT AND MORONGO BASIN IN SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY. * TIMING...WINDS WILL BECOME STRONG IN THE BARSTOW AREA BY MID MORNING WITH STRONG WINDS SPREADING TO THE MORONGO BASIN LATE MORNING OR EARLY AFTERNOON. THE STRONG WINDS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING BEFORE DECREASING. * WINDS...WEST WINDS 20 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 45 MPH. * IMPACTS...UNSECURED OBJECTS WILL BE BLOWN AROUND. DRIVING COULD BE DIFFICULT AT TIMES DUE TO CROSSWINDS. 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. && $$
2 follow-up statements
082 WWUS75 KVEF 242242 NPWVEF URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV 242 PM PST SAT DEC 24 2016 CAZ523-525-250600- /O.CON.KVEF.WI.Y.0050.000000T0000Z-161225T0600Z/ WESTERN MOJAVE DESERT-MORONGO BASIN- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...BARSTOW...DAGGETT...FORT IRWIN... MORONGO VALLEY...YUCCA VALLEY...TWENTYNINE PALMS 242 PM PST SAT DEC 24 2016 ...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM PST THIS EVENING... * TIMING...STRONG WINDS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THIS EVENING BEFORE DECREASING LATER TONIGHT. * WINDS...WEST WINDS 20 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 45 MPH. * IMPACTS...UNSECURED OBJECTS WILL BE BLOWN AROUND. DRIVING COULD BE DIFFICULT AT TIMES DUE TO CROSSWINDS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND ADVISORY MEANS STRONG WINDS GUSTING OVER 40 MPH CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. && $$
344 WWUS75 KVEF 250531 NPWVEF URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV 931 PM PST SAT DEC 24 2016 CAZ523-525-250645- /O.EXP.KVEF.WI.Y.0050.000000T0000Z-161225T0600Z/ WESTERN MOJAVE DESERT-MORONGO BASIN- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...BARSTOW...DAGGETT...FORT IRWIN... MORONGO VALLEY...YUCCA VALLEY...TWENTYNINE PALMS 931 PM PST SAT DEC 24 2016 ...WIND ADVISORY WILL EXPIRE AT 10 PM PST THIS EVENING... WINDS WERE DECREASING OVER WESTERN SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY THIS EVENING, SO THE WIND ADVISORY WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. $$ MORGAN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Las Vegas, NV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 23, 8:26 PM PST | Areal Flood Advisory | VEF | San Bernardino | 3 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.