Alert archive / California / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 1, NWS San Diego, CA

August 1, 1992San Diego County, California

NWS San Diego, CA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 1, 1992, 1:18 PM PDT for San Diego County, California. It was in force for 57 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 1, 1992, 1:18 PM PDT (20:18 UTC)
Expired
Aug 1, 1992, 2:15 PM PDT
In force
57 min
Issued by
NWS San Diego, CA
Area
Whole counties

County San Diego County, CA

The nearest sounding before it

San Diego, CA (KNKX), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 47 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, San Diego, CA at 12:00Z on 1992-08-01Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, San Diego, CA at 12:00Z on 1992-08-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 8 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
1346 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
8 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
57 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 1, 11:34 AM PDT, 1 hour 44 minutes before
CAZ013-018-020030-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN DIEGO CA
1132 AM PDT SAT AUG 1 1992

....THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER SAN DIEGO AND IMPERIAL COUNTIES THIS
MORNING...

THUNDERSTORMS ARE DEVELOPING ALONG THE CALIFORNIA/MEXICAN BORDER NEAR
DESCANSO AND CAMPO CALIFORNIA. RADAR REPORTS THE MOVEMENT IS TOWARD
THE NORTHWEST WITH TOPS OF THE THUNDERSTORMS UP TO 43000 FEET. A FLASH
FLOOD WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR ALL THE MOUNTAINS AND DESERTS OF SAN
DIEGO COUNTY UNTIL 7 PM THIS EVENING. THESE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE THE
POTENTIAL FOR LOCAL FLOODING..BRIEF HEAVY RAIN AND DANGEROUS
LIGHTNING.

IF YOUR OBSERVE WATER RUNNING ACROSS THE ROADWAY DO NOT ATTEMPT TO
CROSS. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE.

FURTHER STATEMENTS WILL BE ISSUED AS CONDTITIONS WARRANT.

R. STITT

The office that day

Everything else NWS San Diego, CA issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 1, 1:18 PM PDTFlash Flood WarningSGXSan Diego57 min

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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.