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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS San Diego, CA

February 27, 2001San Diego County, California

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, San Diego, CA at 12:00Z on 2001-02-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 6 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, San Diego, CA at 12:00Z on 2001-02-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 50 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
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

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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

SMALL

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 27, 3:12 PM PSTFlash Flood WarningSGXSan Diego63 min
Feb 27, 3:57 PM PSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGXSan Diego63 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.