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Winter Storm Warning 5, NWS Las Vegas, NV
NWS Las Vegas, NV issued this winter storm warning at Mar 11, 2025, 9:30 AM PDT for Clark County, Nye County, Nevada; Inyo County, California. It took effect at Mar 12, 2025, 5:00 PM PDT. It was in force for 28 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 11, 2025, 9:30 AM PDT (16:30 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 12, 2025, 5:00 PM PDT
- Expired
- Mar 13, 2025, 9:09 PM PDT
- In force
- 28 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Las Vegas, NV
Counties Inyo County, CA, Clark County, NV, Nye County, NV
The radar
The Las Vegas radar (KESX), 185 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:32 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, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 91 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
- 3628 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 94 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 124 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 Las Vegas, NV wrote its last area forecast discussion before this winter storm warning went out at Mar 11, 9:10 AM PDT, 20 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 11, 9:10 AM PDT, 20 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Las Vegas, NV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 11, 11:36 AM PDT | Winter Weather Advisory | VEF | Clark, Esmeralda, Lincoln, Nye | 62 hr |
| Mar 11, 12:06 PM PDT | Wind Advisory | VEF | Clark, Esmeralda, Nye | 4 days |
Nearby
Winter Storm Warnings in Nevada, 2025Winter Storm Warnings in California, 2025Every winter storm warning in 2025
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.