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Red Flag Warning 16, NWS Reno, NV
NWS Reno, NV issued this red flag warning at Oct 27, 2024, 11:08 AM PDT for Douglas County, Lyon County, Mineral County, Nevada; Madera County, Mono County, California. It was in force for 8 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 27, 2024, 11:08 AM PDT (18:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 27, 2024, 7:00 PM PDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Reno, NV
Counties Madera County, CA, Mono County, CA, Douglas County, NV, Lyon County, NV, Mineral County, NV
The radar
The Reno radar (KRGX), 161 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:12 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, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 388 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
- 3902 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 72 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 128 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this red flag 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 red flag warning went out at Oct 27, 3:22 AM PDT, 7 hours 46 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 27, 3:22 AM PDT, 7 hours 46 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.