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Lake Wind Advisory 7, NWS Las Vegas, NV

June 7, 2020San Bernardino County, California; Mohave County, Arizona

NWS Las Vegas, NV issued this lake wind advisory at Jun 7, 2020, 2:26 AM PDT for San Bernardino County, California; Mohave County, Arizona. It took effect at Jun 8, 2020, 5:00 AM PDT. It was in force for 9 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 7, 2020, 2:26 AM PDT (09:26 UTC)
In effect from
Jun 8, 2020, 5:00 AM PDT
Expired
Jun 8, 2020, 1:54 PM PDT
In force
9 hr
Issued by
NWS Las Vegas, NV

Counties Mohave County, AZ, San Bernardino County, CA

The radar

The Las Vegas radar (KESX), 48 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:31 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

Flgstf/Belemont, AZ (KFGZ), launched 00:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 288 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Flgstf/Belemont, AZ at 00:00Z on 2020-06-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Flgstf/Belemont, AZ at 00:00Z on 2020-06-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 109 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
2234 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
109 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
162 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this lake wind advisory 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 lake wind advisory went out at Jun 6, 9:02 PM PDT, 5 hours 24 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 6, 9:02 PM PDT, 5 hours 24 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 6, 7:59 PM PDTWind AdvisoryVEFClark, Esmeralda, Lincoln, Nye30 hr
Jun 7, 3:42 AM PDTRed Flag WarningVEFClark, Esmeralda, Lincoln, Nye16 hr

Nearby

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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.