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Lake Wind Advisory 33, NWS Reno, NV

August 25, 20187 counties in Nevada; Mono County, California

NWS Reno, NV issued this lake wind advisory at Aug 25, 2018, 2:23 PM PDT for 7 counties in Nevada; Mono County, California. It took effect at Aug 26, 2018, 11:00 AM PDT. It was in force for 10 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 25, 2018, 2:23 PM PDT (21:23 UTC)
In effect from
Aug 26, 2018, 11:00 AM PDT
Expired
Aug 26, 2018, 9:12 PM PDT
In force
10 hr
Issued by
NWS Reno, NV

Counties Mono County, CA, Churchill County, NV, Douglas County, NV, Lyon County, NV, Mineral County, NV, Pershing County, NV, Storey County, NV, Washoe County, NV

The radar

The Reno radar (KRGX), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:24 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

Reno, NV (KREV), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 75 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, Reno, NV at 12:00Z on 2018-08-25Temperature 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, Reno, NV at 12:00Z on 2018-08-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 88 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
3085 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
88 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
178 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
Aug 25, 2:39 PM PDTRed Flag WarningREVWashoe31 hr

Nearby

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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.