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Lake Wind Advisory 13, NWS Reno, NV
NWS Reno, NV issued this lake wind advisory at May 12, 2026, 10:49 AM PDT for 5 counties in Nevada. It took effect at May 13, 2026, 11:00 AM PDT. It was in force for 12 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 12, 2026, 10:49 AM PDT (17:49 UTC)
- In effect from
- May 13, 2026, 11:00 AM PDT
- Expired
- May 13, 2026, 11:00 PM PDT
- In force
- 12 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Reno, NV
Counties Churchill County, NV, Lyon County, NV, Mineral County, NV, Pershing County, NV, Washoe County, NV
The radar
The Reno radar (KRGX), 57 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:50 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 12:00Z, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 53 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
- 3039 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 31 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -1 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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.