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Red Flag Warning 19, NWS Reno, NV

November 22, 20244 counties in Nevada; Madera County, Mono County, California

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Oakland, CA at 12:00Z on 2024-11-22Temperature 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 12:00Z on 2024-11-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 375 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
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

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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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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Nov 22, 1:47 AM PSTHigh Wind WarningREVDouglas, Lyon, Mineral, Storey, Washoe23 hr
Nov 22, 1:47 AM PSTWind AdvisoryREVDouglas, Washoe8 hr
Nov 22, 3:48 AM PSTWinter Storm WatchREVDouglas, Washoe49 hr

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.