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High Wind Watch 2, NWS Reno, NV

March 8, 20237 counties in Nevada; Modoc County, California

NWS Reno, NV issued this high wind watch at Mar 8, 2023, 3:19 AM PST for 7 counties in Nevada; Modoc County, California. It took effect at Mar 9, 2023, 10:00 PM PST. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 8, 2023, 3:19 AM PST (11:19 UTC)
In effect from
Mar 9, 2023, 10:00 PM PST
Expired
Mar 9, 2023, 3:40 AM PST
In force
Issued by
NWS Reno, NV

Counties Modoc 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), 19 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:20 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 343 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 2023-03-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 2023-03-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 16 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
1257 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
16 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
84 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 8, 3:19 AM PSTLake Wind AdvisoryREVChurchill, Lyon, Pershing, Washoe15 hr
Mar 8, 3:11 PM PSTWinter Storm WarningREVDouglas, Washoe6 days

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.