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Winter Storm Warning 5, NWS Reno, NV
NWS Reno, NV issued this winter storm warning at Feb 23, 2023, 4:12 AM PST for Lyon County, Mineral County, Nevada; Mono County, California. It took effect at Feb 24, 2023, 4:00 AM PST. It was in force for 53 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
- Feb 23, 2023, 4:12 AM PST (12:12 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 24, 2023, 4:00 AM PST
- Expired
- Feb 26, 2023, 8:47 AM PST
- In force
- 53 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Reno, NV
Counties Mono County, CA, Lyon County, NV, Mineral County, NV
The radar
The Reno radar (KRGX), 150 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:13 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
Las Vegas, NV (KVEF), launched 12:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 375 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
- 1413 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 114 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 winter storm 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 winter storm warning went out at Feb 23, 2:38 AM PST, 1 hour 34 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 23, 2:38 AM PST, 1 hour 34 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.