The wind is howling in the Sierra Nevada.

The National Weather Service recorded a 106 MPH gust atop Slide Mountain at 8:30 a.m. Thursday. The burst of wind hit at 9,650-feet elevation near Mount Rose Ski Tahoe resort between Lake Tahoe and southwest Reno. That gust would have been an F1 tornado had it been cyclonic and sustained.

Almost nearly as strong, a 104 MPH gust swept an area at 7,000-feet elevation just north of Lee Vining and Mono Lake at 4 a.m. Thursday.

In the more populated area of Truckee, the strongest gale recorded Thursday was 48 MPH. At 8,700 feet at Squaw Valley Ski Resort, the winds are sustained at about 25 MPH and the strongest gust to hit was 99 MPH.

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A storm that swooped into Northern California and the Sierra Nevada Thursday morning are bringing the windy conditions.

"This is pretty common around here in a big storm," says Tony Fuentes, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service office in Reno. "Basically we have a pretty potent system that's moving in. When we get these strong winds, we have a strong jet stream pushing across the Sierra."

The National Weather Service issued advisories warning the public of 20 to 35 MPH winds with gusts reaching 80 MPH in wind-prone areas of the northern Sierra Nevada.

Fuentes says the winds will diminish late Thursday afternoon into Friday morning.