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Winter Weather Advisory 18, NWS Reno, NV

November 6, 2021Douglas County, Washoe County, Nevada; 4 counties in California

NWS Reno, NV issued this winter weather advisory at Nov 6, 2021, 2:11 AM PDT for Douglas County, Washoe County, Nevada; 4 counties in California. It took effect at Nov 6, 2021, 11:00 AM PDT. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Nov 6, 2021, 2:11 AM PDT (09:11 UTC)
In effect from
Nov 6, 2021, 11:00 AM PDT
Expired
Nov 6, 2021, 5:47 PM PDT
In force
7 hr
Issued by
NWS Reno, NV

Counties Alpine County, CA, El Dorado County, CA, Nevada County, CA, Placer County, CA, Douglas County, NV, Washoe County, NV

The radar

The Reno radar (KRGX), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:14 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 00:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 241 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, Oakland, CA at 00:00Z on 2021-11-06Temperature 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 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Oakland, CA at 00:00Z on 2021-11-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 77 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
1056 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
54 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
77 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
151 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 winter weather advisory 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 winter weather advisory went out at Nov 5, 3:46 PM PDT, 10 hours 25 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Nov 5, 3:46 PM PDT, 10 hours 25 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.