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Freeze Warning 1, NWS Las Vegas, NV

October 21, 2022Esmeralda County, Lincoln County, Nye County, Nevada

NWS Las Vegas, NV issued this freeze warning at Oct 21, 2022, 1:43 AM PDT for Esmeralda County, Lincoln County, Nye County, Nevada. It took effect at Oct 22, 2022, 11:00 PM PDT. It was in force for 9 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: Oct 21, 2022, 1:43 AM PDT (08:43 UTC)
In effect from: Oct 22, 2022, 11:00 PM PDT
Expired: Oct 23, 2022, 8:00 AM PDT
In force: 9 hr
Issued by: NWS Las Vegas, NV

Counties Esmeralda County, NV, Lincoln County, NV, Nye County, NV

The nearest sounding before it

Las Vegas, NV (KVEF), launched 00:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 175 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 3715 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 9 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 3 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 freeze 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 freeze warning went out at Oct 20, 2:38 PM PDT, 11 hours 5 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 20, 2:38 PM PDT, 11 hours 5 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
Oct 21, 1:43 AM PDT	High Wind Warning	VEF	Clark, Nye	51 hr

Nearby

Freeze Warnings in Nevada, 2022 Freeze Warnings in California, 2022 Every freeze warning in 2022

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.