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Winter Storm Warning 6, NWS Reno, NV
NWS Reno, NV issued this winter storm warning at Mar 15, 2025, 3:28 AM PDT for Douglas County, Washoe County, Nevada; 7 counties in California. It took effect at Mar 16, 2025, 11:00 AM PDT. It was in force for 36 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
- Mar 15, 2025, 3:28 AM PDT (10:28 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 16, 2025, 11:00 AM PDT
- Expired
- Mar 17, 2025, 11:00 PM PDT
- In force
- 36 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Reno, NV
Counties Alpine County, CA, El Dorado County, CA, Lassen County, CA, Nevada County, CA, Placer County, CA, Plumas County, CA, Sierra County, CA, Douglas County, NV, Washoe County, NV
The radar
The Reno radar (KRGX), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:29 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
Reno, NV (KREV), launched 00:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 184 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
- 3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1529 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 58 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 146 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 182 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
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 Mar 14, 2:19 PM PDT, 13 hours 9 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 14, 2:19 PM PDT, 13 hours 9 minutes 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 15, 3:34 AM PDT | High Wind Warning | REV | Churchill, Douglas, Lyon, Pershing, Storey, Washoe | 43 hr |
| Mar 15, 1:20 PM PDT | Wind Advisory | REV | Churchill, Douglas, Lyon, Mineral, Pershing, Storey and 1 more | 42 hr |
| Mar 15, 3:28 AM PDT | Winter Weather Advisory | REV | Mono | 68 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.