Alert archive / Nevada / High Wind Watches in 2020
High Wind Watch 1, NWS Reno, NV
NWS Reno, NV issued this high wind watch at Jan 11, 2020, 11:48 AM PST for 4 counties in Nevada; Mono County, California. It took effect at Jan 13, 2020, 10:00 PM PST. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 11, 2020, 11:48 AM PST (19:48 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 13, 2020, 10:00 PM PST
- Expired
- Jan 12, 2020, 1:02 PM PST
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Reno, NV
Counties Mono County, CA, Douglas County, NV, Lyon 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 19:51 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 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 456 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
- 892 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 74 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 204 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 300 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 11, 11:48 AM PST | Winter Weather Advisory | REV | Douglas, Washoe | 70 hr |
Nearby
High Wind Watches in Nevada, 2020High Wind Watches in California, 2020Every high wind watch in 2020
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.