Alert archive / California / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 5, NWS San Diego, CA
NWS San Diego, CA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 5, 2000, 10:37 AM PST for Orange County, San Diego County, California. It was in force for 83 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 5, 2000, 10:37 AM PST (18:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 5, 2000, 12:00 PM PST
- In force
- 83 min
- Issued by
- NWS San Diego, CA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Orange County, CA, San Diego County, CA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 5, 10:45 AM PST | Thunderstorm Wind 52 M | Huntington Beach, CA | |
| Mar 5, 10:52 AM PST | Thunderstorm Wind 56 M | Oceanside, CA |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The nearest sounding before it
San Diego, CA (KNKX), launched 12:00Z, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 62 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
- 635 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 59 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 200 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 206 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS56 KSGX 051843 SVRSAN CAC059-073-051900- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN DIEGO CA 1037 AM PST SUN MAR 5 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN DIEGO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN ORANGE COUNTY IN CALIFORNIA AND WESTERN SAN DIEGO COUNTY IN CALIFORNIA * UNTIL 1200 PM PST * AT 1036 AM PST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS...LIKELY SEVERE ABOUT 10 MILES OFF THE SOUTHERN ORANGE AND SAN DIEGO COUNTY COAST MOVING TOWARD THE EAST AT 20 MPH. * A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR THE SOUTHERN ORANGE COUNTY COASTAL AREAS AND SAN DIEGO COASTAL AREAS UNTIL NOON TODAY. * PEOPLE IN THESE AREAS SHOULD SEEK SHELTER INDOORS. REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFI/CE IN SAN DIEGO. $$ ATKIN
The office that day
Everything else NWS San Diego, CA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 5, 8:40 AM PST | Flash Flood Warning | SGX | San Diego | 80 min |
| Mar 5, 3:06 PM PST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGX | San Bernardino | 54 min |
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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.