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Excessive Heat Warning 2, NWS Las Vegas, NV

May 7, 2020Inyo County, California

NWS Las Vegas, NV issued this excessive heat warning at May 7, 2020, 2:10 AM PDT for Inyo County, California. It took effect at May 8, 2020, 12:00 PM PDT. It was in force for 32 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 7, 2020, 2:10 AM PDT (09:10 UTC)
In effect from: May 8, 2020, 12:00 PM PDT
Expired: May 9, 2020, 7:56 PM PDT
In force: 32 hr
Issued by: NWS Las Vegas, NV

County Inyo County, CA

The radar

The Edwards AFB radar (KEYX), 158 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:09 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.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this excessive heat 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 excessive heat warning went out at May 6, 10:33 PM PDT, 3 hours 37 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 6, 10:33 PM PDT, 3 hours 37 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 7, 2:13 PM PDT	Fire Weather Watch	VEF	Clark, Lincoln, Nye	23 hr

Nearby

Excessive Heat Warnings in California, 2020 Every excessive heat 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.