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High Wind Watch 1, NWS Reno, NV
NWS Reno, NV issued this high wind watch at Jan 4, 2019, 1:47 PM PST for 4 counties in Nevada; Modoc County, Mono County, California. It took effect at Jan 6, 2019, 4:00 PM PST. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 4, 2019, 1:47 PM PST (21:47 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 6, 2019, 4:00 PM PST
- Expired
- Jan 6, 2019, 4:14 AM PST
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Reno, NV
Counties Modoc County, CA, Mono County, CA, Douglas County, NV, Lyon County, NV, Storey County, NV, Washoe County, NV
The radar
The Reno radar (KRGX), 21 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:48 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
Oakland, CA (KOAK), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 306 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
- 1632 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 41 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 68 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Reno, NV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 4, 3:04 AM PST | Winter Storm Warning | REV | Douglas, Washoe | 3 days |
| Jan 4, 3:04 AM PST | Winter Weather Advisory | REV | Douglas, Lyon, Storey, Washoe | 53 hr |
| Jan 4, 1:47 PM PST | Lake Wind Advisory | REV | Churchill, Douglas, Lyon, Pershing, Washoe | 28 hr |
Nearby
High Wind Watches in Nevada, 2019High Wind Watches in California, 2019Every high wind watch in 2019
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.