Alert archive / California / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS San Diego, CA
NWS San Diego, CA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 27, 2001, 3:20 PM PST for San Diego County, California. It was in force for 40 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 27, 2001, 3:20 PM PST (23:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 27, 2001, 4:00 PM PST
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS San Diego, CA
- Area
- Whole counties
County San Diego County, CA
The radar
The San Diego radar (KNKX), 28 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:21 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
San Diego, CA (KNKX), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -103 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 575 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 50 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 54 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 272338 COR
SVRSAN
CAC073-280000-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING...CORRECTION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN DIEGO CA
329 PM PST TUE FEB 27 2001
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN DIEGO HAS ISSUED A
...DELETED RIVERSIDE COUNTY FROM WARNING...
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
WESTERN SAN DIEGO COUNTY IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...CARLSBAD...ENCINITAS...
ESCONDIDO...FALLBROOK...LA MESA...LAKESIDE...OCEANSIDE...POWAY...
SAN DIEGO...SAN MARCOS...SANTEE...VISTA
* UNTIL 400 PM PST
* AT 318 PM PST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR AND SPOTTER
REPORTS INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER POWAY. THE STORM WAS
NEARLY STATIONARY. HAIL TO NEAR 1 INCH...VERY HEAVY RAIN AND STRONG
DAMAGING WINDS ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. TAKE COVER IN A
SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER UNTIL THE STORM PASSES.
HEAVY RAINS WILL FLOOD LOW LYING AREAS SUCH AS DITCHES AND
UNDERPASSES. AVOID THESE AREAS AND DO NOT CROSS FLOODED ROADS AS THEY
MAY BE WASHED OUT. SMALL STREAMS AND RIVERS WILL ALSO OVERFLOW
...THEREFORE SEEK HIGHER GROUND IF THREATENED BY FLOOD WATERS.
REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORC8EMENT AGENCY. THEY
WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST
OFFICE IN SAN DIEGO.
$$
LAT...LON 3321 11738 3267 11714 3289 11684 3319 11668
3343 11684 3347 11727
SMALLThe office that day
Everything else NWS San Diego, CA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 27, 3:12 PM PST | Flash Flood Warning | SGX | San Diego | 63 min |
| Feb 27, 3:57 PM PST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGX | San Diego | 63 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.