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Lake Wind Advisory 29, NWS Reno, NV

July 7, 20186 counties in Nevada

NWS Reno, NV issued this lake wind advisory at Jul 7, 2018, 3:08 AM PDT for 6 counties in Nevada. It took effect at Jul 7, 2018, 1:00 PM PDT. It was in force for 8 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 7, 2018, 3:08 AM PDT (10:08 UTC)
In effect from
Jul 7, 2018, 1:00 PM PDT
Expired
Jul 7, 2018, 9:00 PM PDT
In force
8 hr
Issued by
NWS Reno, NV

Counties Churchill County, NV, Douglas County, NV, Lyon County, NV, Pershing County, NV, Storey County, NV, Washoe County, NV

The radar

The Reno radar (KRGX), 30 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:10 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

Medford/Jackson, OR (KMFR), launched 00:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 430 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Medford/Jackson, OR at 00:00Z on 2018-07-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Medford/Jackson, OR at 00:00Z on 2018-07-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -10 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
2556 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
58 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-10 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
257 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Reno, NV issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 7, 1:19 PM PDTRed Flag WarningREVWashoe32 hr

Nearby

Lake Wind Advisories in Nevada, 2018Every lake wind advisory in 2018

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.