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Dust Storm Warning 5, NWS Las Vegas, NV

September 8, 2020Lincoln County, Nevada

NWS Las Vegas, NV issued this dust storm warning at Sep 8, 2020, 10:24 AM PDT for Lincoln County, Nevada. It was in force for 66 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Sep 8, 2020, 10:24 AM PDT (17:24 UTC)
Expired: Sep 8, 2020, 11:30 AM PDT
In force: 66 min
Issued by: NWS Las Vegas, NV
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Lincoln County, NV

The radar

The Cedar City radar (KICX), 178 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:27 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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

Elko, NV (KLKN), launched 12:00Z, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 364 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1393 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 104 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -9 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 269 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this dust storm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Las Vegas, NV wrote its last area forecast discussion before this dust storm warning went out at Sep 8, 9:56 AM PDT, 28 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 8, 9:56 AM PDT, 28 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Sep 8, 6:59 AM PDT, 3 hours 25 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV
659 AM PDT TUE SEP 8 2020

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0445 AM     NON-TSTM WND GST 15 NNW AMARGOSA VALLEY  36.85N 116.47W
09/08/2020  M66 MPH          NYE                NV   MESONET

            YUCCA MOUNTAIN ARL SORD SENSOR OYMAB
            MEASURED A GUST OF 66 MPH AT 445AM.

0541 AM     NON-TSTM WND GST 12 SW ELGIN             37.25N 114.71W
09/08/2020  M59 MPH          LINCOLN            NV   MESONET

            KANE SPRINGS RAWS SENSOR KNSN2 MEASURED A
            GUST OF 59 MPH AT 541AM.

&&

VARIAN

Local storm report, Sep 8, 7:09 AM PDT, 3 hours 15 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV
709 AM PDT TUE SEP 8 2020

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0651 AM     NON-TSTM WND DMG 2 NW THE STRIP          36.13N 115.19W
09/08/2020                   CLARK              NV   FIRE DEPT/RESCUE

            LAS VEGAS FIRE RESCUE REPORTED A TREE DOWN
            ON A POWER BOX ON S. VALLEY VIEW AND SIRIUS
            AT 0651AM.

0651 AM     NON-TSTM WND DMG 1 WSW NORTH LAS VEGAS A 36.21N 115.21W
09/08/2020                   CLARK              NV   FIRE DEPT/RESCUE

            LAS VEGAS FIRE RESCUE REPORTED A POWER POLE
            ARCING AND A POWER OUTAGE ON EL CASTANO AVE
            AT 0651AM.

&&

VARIAN

Local storm report, Sep 8, 8:11 AM PDT, 2 hours 13 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV
811 AM PDT TUE SEP 8 2020

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0706 AM     NON-TSTM WND DMG 4 N SPRING VALLEY       36.16N 115.23W
09/08/2020                   CLARK              NV   BROADCAST MEDIA

            DOWNED POWER LINES REPORTEDLY CAUSED A WATER
            HEATER TO EXPLODE AT A RESIDENCE IN THE WEST
            CENTRAL LAS VEGAS VALLEY.

&&

JA

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 8, 8:37 AM PDT	Dust Storm Warning	VEF	Lincoln	113 min
Sep 8, 11:27 AM PDT	Dust Storm Warning	VEF	Lincoln	2 hr

Nearby

Dust Storm Warnings in Nevada, 2020 Every dust storm warning 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.