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Red Flag Warning 19, NWS Reno, NV
NWS Reno, NV issued this red flag warning at Nov 22, 2024, 8:28 AM PST for 4 counties in Nevada; Madera County, Mono County, California. It was in force for 11 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
- Nov 22, 2024, 8:28 AM PST (16:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 22, 2024, 7:00 PM PST
- In force
- 11 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Reno, NV
Counties Madera County, CA, Mono County, CA, Churchill County, NV, Douglas County, NV, Lyon County, NV, Mineral County, NV
The radar
The Reno radar (KRGX), 140 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:27 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
Oakland, CA (KOAK), launched 12:00Z, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 291 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
- 759 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 70 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 375 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 414 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 Nov 22, 2:28 AM PST, 6 hours earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Nov 22, 2:28 AM PST, 6 hours before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Reno, NV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 22, 1:47 AM PST | High Wind Warning | REV | Douglas, Lyon, Mineral, Storey, Washoe | 23 hr |
| Nov 22, 1:47 AM PST | Wind Advisory | REV | Douglas, Washoe | 8 hr |
| Nov 22, 3:48 AM PST | Winter Storm Watch | REV | Douglas, Washoe | 49 hr |
Nearby
Red Flag Warnings in Nevada, 2024Red Flag Warnings in California, 2024Every red flag warning in 2024
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.