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Snow Squall Warning 1, NWS Reno, NV
NWS Reno, NV issued this snow squall warning at Mar 4, 2023, 5:14 PM PST for Lyon County, Storey County, Washoe County, Nevada. It was in force for 18 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 4, 2023, 5:14 PM PST (01:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 4, 2023, 5:32 PM PST
- In force
- 18 min
- Issued by
- NWS Reno, NV
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Lyon County, NV, Storey County, NV, Washoe County, NV
The radar
The Reno radar (KRGX), 5 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:14 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
Medford/Jackson, OR (KMFR), launched 00:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 407 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
- 31 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 825 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 64 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 144 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this snow squall warning 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 snow squall warning went out at Mar 4, 2:14 PM PST, 3 hours earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 4, 2:14 PM PST, 3 hours 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.