Alert archive / Nevada / Wind Advisories in 2017
Wind Advisory 4, NWS Las Vegas, NV
NWS Las Vegas, NV issued this wind advisory at Jan 8, 2017, 2:45 PM PST for Clark County, Nye County, Nevada. It was in force for 27 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 8, 2017, 2:45 PM PST (22:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 9, 2017, 6:00 PM PST
- In force
- 27 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Las Vegas, NV
Counties Clark County, NV, Nye County, NV
The nearest sounding before it
Las Vegas, NV (KVEF), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 86 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
- 1614 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 116 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 439 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
291 WWUS75 KVEF 082245 NPWVEF URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV 245 PM PST SUN JAN 8 2017 NVZ019-090645- /O.NEW.KVEF.WI.Y.0004.170108T2245Z-170110T0200Z/ SPRING MOUNTAINS-RED ROCK CANYON- INCLUDING...THE TOWN OF MT CHARLESTON... RED ROCK CANYON 245 PM PST SUN JAN 8 2017 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM PST MONDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LAS VEGAS HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM PST MONDAY. * TIMING...STRONG WINDS HAVE DEVELOPED IN THE SPRING MOUNTAINS ABOVE 7000 FEET AND WILL PERSIST THROUGH MONDAY AFTERNOON. * WINDS...SOUTHWEST WINDS GUSTING 55 TO 65 MPH WILL OCCUR IN THE HIGHER TERRAIN OF THE SPRING MOUNTAINS ESPECIALLY IN CANYONS AND ALONG EXPOSED RIDGES. * IMPACTS...WINDS WILL MAKE DRIVING HAZARDOUS FOR MOTORCYCLES...TRAILERS AND CAMPERS...ESPECIALLY ON NORTH-SOUTH SECTIONS OF ROAD LIKE DEER CREEK HIGHWAY. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... PEOPLE DRIVING HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES OR MOTORCYCLES IN THE SPRING MOUNTAINS SHOULD EXERCISE CAUTION. BE ALERT TO SUDDEN GUSTS OF WIND WHICH MAY CAUSE YOU TO LOSE CONTROL OF YOUR VEHICLE. && $$ JA
2 follow-up statements
291 WWUS75 KVEF 090646 NPWVEF URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV 1046 PM PST SUN JAN 8 2017 NVZ019-091700- /O.CON.KVEF.WI.Y.0004.000000T0000Z-170110T0200Z/ SPRING MOUNTAINS-RED ROCK CANYON- INCLUDING...THE TOWN OF MT CHARLESTON... RED ROCK CANYON 1046 PM PST SUN JAN 8 2017 ...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM PST MONDAY... * TIMING...STRONG WINDS HAVE DEVELOPED IN THE SPRING MOUNTAINS ABOVE 7000 FEET AND WILL PERSIST THROUGH MONDAY AFTERNOON. * WINDS...SOUTHWEST WINDS GUSTING 55 TO 65 MPH WILL OCCUR IN THE HIGHER TERRAIN OF THE SPRING MOUNTAINS ESPECIALLY IN CANYONS AND ALONG EXPOSED RIDGES. * IMPACTS...WINDS WILL MAKE DRIVING HAZARDOUS FOR MOTORCYCLES... TRAILERS AND CAMPERS...ESPECIALLY ON NORTH-SOUTH SECTIONS OF ROAD LIKE DEER CREEK HIGHWAY. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... PEOPLE DRIVING HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES OR MOTORCYCLES IN THE SPRING MOUNTAINS SHOULD EXERCISE CAUTION. BE ALERT TO SUDDEN GUSTS OF WIND WHICH MAY CAUSE YOU TO LOSE CONTROL OF YOUR VEHICLE. && $$
435 WWUS75 KVEF 091854 NPWVEF URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV 1054 AM PST MON JAN 9 2017 NVZ019-100200- /O.CON.KVEF.WI.Y.0004.000000T0000Z-170110T0200Z/ SPRING MOUNTAINS-RED ROCK CANYON- INCLUDING...THE TOWN OF MT CHARLESTON... RED ROCK CANYON 1054 AM PST MON JAN 9 2017 ...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM PST THIS EVENING... * TIMING...STRONG WINDS IN THE SPRING MOUNTAINS AND RED ROCK CANYON WILL PERSIST THROUGH LATE THIS AFTERNOON. * WINDS...SOUTHWEST TO WEST WINDS GUSTING 55 TO 65 MPH WILL OCCUR IN THE HIGHER TERRAIN OF THE SPRING MOUNTAINS AND GUSTS OF 45 TO 55 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED IN RED ROCK CANYON. * IMPACTS...WINDS WILL MAKE DRIVING HAZARDOUS FOR MOTORCYCLES... TRAILERS AND CAMPERS...ESPECIALLY ON NORTH-SOUTH SECTIONS OF ROADS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... PEOPLE DRIVING HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES OR MOTORCYCLES IN THE SPRING MOUNTAINS SHOULD EXERCISE CAUTION. BE ALERT TO SUDDEN GUSTS OF WIND WHICH MAY CAUSE YOU TO LOSE CONTROL OF YOUR VEHICLE. && $$
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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.