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Lake Wind Advisory 43, NWS Reno, NV
NWS Reno, NV issued this lake wind advisory at Jul 17, 2017, 1:52 PM PDT for 6 counties in Nevada; Lassen County, Plumas County, Sierra County, California. It took effect at Jul 18, 2017, 12:00 PM PDT. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 17, 2017, 1:52 PM PDT (20:52 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jul 18, 2017, 12:00 PM PDT
- Expired
- Jul 18, 2017, 8:00 PM PDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Reno, NV
Counties Lassen County, CA, Plumas County, CA, Sierra County, CA, Churchill County, NV, Douglas County, NV, Lyon County, NV, Pershing County, NV, Storey County, NV, Washoe County, NV
The radar
The Reno radar (KRGX), 16 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:55 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
Medford/Jackson, OR (KMFR), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 389 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
- 1796 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -1 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 27 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
Nearby
Lake Wind Advisories in Nevada, 2017Lake Wind Advisories in California, 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.