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High Wind Watch 5, NWS Las Vegas, NV
NWS Las Vegas, NV issued this high wind watch at Nov 16, 2020, 10:23 AM PST for Inyo County, California. It took effect at Nov 17, 2020, 10:00 AM PST. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 16, 2020, 10:23 AM PST (18:23 UTC)
- In effect from
- Nov 17, 2020, 10:00 AM PST
- Expired
- Nov 17, 2020, 9:56 AM PST
- In force
- 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 18:28 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
Vandenberg AFB, CA (KVBG), launched 12:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 342 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
- 3464 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 7 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -42 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -46 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this high wind watch 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 high wind watch went out at Nov 16, 2:25 AM PST, 7 hours 58 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Nov 16, 2:25 AM PST, 7 hours 58 minutes before
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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.