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Lake Wind Advisory 29, NWS Reno, NV
NWS Reno, NV issued this lake wind advisory at May 11, 2017, 2:52 PM PDT for 4 counties in Nevada. It took effect at May 12, 2017, 11:00 AM PDT. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 11, 2017, 2:52 PM PDT (21:52 UTC)
- In effect from
- May 12, 2017, 11:00 AM PDT
- Expired
- May 12, 2017, 7:00 PM PDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Reno, NV
Counties Churchill County, NV, Lyon County, NV, Pershing County, NV, Washoe County, NV
The radar
The Reno radar (KRGX), 52 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:55 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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
Elko, NV (KLKN), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 411 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
- 2522 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 44 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 70 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this lake wind advisory went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Reno, NV wrote its last area forecast discussion before this lake wind advisory went out at May 11, 2:41 PM PDT, 11 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 11, 2:41 PM PDT, 11 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Reno, NV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 11, 2:00 PM PDT | Areal Flood Advisory | REV | Lyon | 7 days |
Nearby
Lake Wind Advisories in Nevada, 2017Every lake wind advisory in 2017
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.