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Lake Wind Advisory 8, NWS Reno, NV
NWS Reno, NV issued this lake wind advisory at Feb 15, 2017, 3:33 PM PST for 5 counties in Nevada; 4 counties in California. It took effect at Feb 16, 2017, 10:00 AM PST. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 15, 2017, 3:33 PM PST (23:33 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 16, 2017, 10:00 AM PST
- Expired
- Feb 16, 2017, 6:00 PM PST
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Reno, NV
Counties Alpine County, CA, El Dorado County, CA, Nevada County, CA, Placer County, CA, Churchill County, NV, Douglas County, NV, Lyon County, NV, Pershing County, NV, Washoe County, NV
The radar
The Reno radar (KRGX), 46 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:35 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
Oakland, CA (KOAK), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 286 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
- 2046 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -10 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 28 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 Feb 15, 3:15 AM PST, 12 hours 18 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 15, 3:15 AM PST, 12 hours 18 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Reno, NV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 15, 2:58 AM PST | High Wind Watch | REV | Douglas, Lyon, Storey, Washoe | 13 hr |
| Feb 15, 10:37 AM PST | Winter Weather Advisory | REV | Douglas, Washoe | 26 hr |
| Feb 15, 3:33 PM PST | Wind Advisory | REV | Douglas, Lyon, Storey, Washoe | 24 hr |
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.