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Excessive Heat Watch 1, NWS Reno, NV
NWS Reno, NV issued this excessive heat watch at Jun 23, 2021, 1:02 PM PDT for 7 counties in Nevada; 4 counties in California. It took effect at Jun 27, 2021, 2:00 PM PDT. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 23, 2021, 1:02 PM PDT (20:02 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jun 27, 2021, 2:00 PM PDT
- Expired
- Jun 26, 2021, 3:16 AM PDT
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Reno, NV
Counties Lassen County, CA, Modoc County, CA, Plumas County, CA, Sierra County, CA, Churchill County, NV, Douglas County, NV, Lyon County, NV, Mineral County, NV, Pershing County, NV, Storey County, NV, Washoe County, NV
The radar
The Reno radar (KRGX), 18 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:04 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
Oakland, CA (KOAK), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 325 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
- 538 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 53 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 44 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this excessive heat watch went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Reno, NV wrote its last area forecast discussion before this excessive heat watch went out at Jun 23, 2:54 AM PDT, 10 hours 8 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 23, 2:54 AM PDT, 10 hours 8 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Reno, NV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 23, 4:03 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | REV | Lassen | 42 min |
| Jun 23, 4:27 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | REV | Lassen, Plumas | 33 min |
Nearby
Excessive Heat Watches in Nevada, 2021Excessive Heat Watches in California, 2021Every excessive heat watch in 2021
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.