Alert archive / California / High Wind Warnings in 2005
High Wind Warning 2, NWS San Francisco Bay Area, CA
NWS San Francisco Bay Area, CA issued this high wind warning at Dec 18, 2005, 8:38 AM PST for City and County of San Francisco, California. It was in force for 12 days. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 18, 2005, 8:38 AM PST (16:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 30, 2005, 7:18 PM PST
- In force
- 12 days
- Issued by
- NWS San Francisco Bay Area, CA
The nearest sounding before it
Oakland, CA (KOAK), launched 12:00Z, 4.6 hours before the alert went out and 22 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
- 605 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 451 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 589 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WWUS76 KMTR 181638 NPWMTR URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN FRANCISCO CA 838 AM PST SUN DEC 18 2005 ...HIGH WIND WARNING FOR SAN FRANCISCO COUNTY UNTIL 11 AM PST THIS MORNING... ...WIND ADVISORY FOR THE SAN FRANCISCO AND MONTEREY BAY AREAS UNTIL 3 PM THIS AFTERNOON... .A VIGOROUS STORM SYSTEM IS MOVING THROUGH THE SAN FRANCISCO AND MONTEREY BAY AREAS AND PRODUCING STRONG WINDS AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN. STRONG WINDS WILL CONTINUE BRIEFLY AFTER THE STORM PASSES...THEN WILL START TO DECREASE. CAZ006-181900- /O.NEW.KMTR.HW.W.0002.051218T1638Z-051218T1900Z/ /O.EXT.KMTR.WI.Y.0006.051218T1900Z-051218T2300Z/ SAN FRANCISCO- 838 AM PST SUN DEC 18 2005 ...HIGH WIND WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 AM PST THIS MORNING... ...WIND ADVISORY NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL 3 PM PST THIS AFTERNOON... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN FRANCISCO HAS ISSUED A HIGH WIND WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 AM PST THIS MORNING. THE WIND ADVISORY IS NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL 3 PM PST THIS AFTERNOON. HIGH WINDS HAVE OCCURRED IN THE SAN FRANCISCO AREA OVER THE LAST HOUR. OBSERVATIONS AT THE GOLDEN GATE HAVE SEEN 58 MPH GUSTS WITH 71 MPH GUSTS AT ANGEL ISLAND. THESE STRONG WINDS ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE OVER THE NEXT FEW HOURS WITH THE WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 11 AM. THE AREA THEN REMAINS UNDER A WIND ADVISORY UNTIL 3 PM. A HIGH WIND WARNING MEANS A HAZARDOUS HIGH WIND EVENT IS EXPECTED OR OCCURRING. SUSTAINED WIND SPEEDS OF AT LEAST 40 MPH OR GUSTS OF 58 MPH OR MORE CAN LEAD TO PROPERTY DAMAGE. THE AREA REMAINS UNDER A WIND ADVISORY UNTIL 3 PM. A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT WIND GUSTS OF AT LEAST 45 MPH ARE EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT... ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. POWER OUTAGES MAY ALSO OCCUR. USE EXTRA CAUTION. $$ CAZ505>515-181915- /O.CON.KMTR.WI.Y.0006.000000T0000Z-051218T2300Z/ COASTAL NORTH BAY...INCLUDING POINT REYES NATIONAL SEASHORE- NORTH BAY INTERIOR VALLEYS-NORTH BAY MOUNTAINS- SAN FRANCISCO BAY SHORELINE-SAN FRANCISCO PENINSULA COAST- EAST BAY INTERIOR VALLEYS-EAST BAY HILLS AND DIABLO RANGE- SANTA CRUZ MOUNTAINS-SANTA CLARA VALLEY...INCLUDING SAN JOSE- MONTEREY BAY...NORTHERN SALINAS VALLEY...HOLLISTER VALLEY...AND CARMEL VALLEY-BIG SUR COAST- 838 AM PST SUN DEC 18 2005 ...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 3 PM PST THIS AFTERNOON... A WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 3 PM PST THIS AFTERNOON. A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT WIND GUSTS OF AT LEAST 45 MPH ARE EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT... ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. POWER OUTAGES MAY ALSO OCCUR. USE EXTRA CAUTION. $$ ANDERSON
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS76 KMTR 181910 NPWMTR URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN FRANCISCO CA 1110 AM PST SUN DEC 18 2005 ...WIND ADVISORY FOR THE SAN FRANCISCO AND MONTEREY BAY AREAS UNTIL 3 PM THIS AFTERNOON... .A VIGOROUS STORM SYSTEM IS MOVING THROUGH THE SAN FRANCISCO AND MONTEREY BAY AREAS AND PRODUCING STRONG WINDS AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN. STRONG WINDS WILL CONTINUE BRIEFLY AFTER THE STORM PASSES... THEN WILL START TO DECREASE. CAZ006-182300- /O.EXP.KMTR.HW.W.0002.000000T0000Z-051218T1900Z/ /O.CON.KMTR.WI.Y.0006.000000T0000Z-051218T2300Z/ SAN FRANCISCO- 1110 AM PST SUN DEC 18 2005 ...HIGH WIND WARNING HAS EXPIRED... ...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 3 PM PST THIS AFTERNOON... THE HIGH WIND WARNING IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT. A WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 3 PM PST THIS AFTERNOON. A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT WINDS OF 35 MPH ARE EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. $$ CAZ505>515-182300- /O.CON.KMTR.WI.Y.0006.000000T0000Z-051218T2300Z/ COASTAL NORTH BAY...INCLUDING POINT REYES NATIONAL SEASHORE- NORTH BAY INTERIOR VALLEYS-NORTH BAY MOUNTAINS- SAN FRANCISCO BAY SHORELINE-SAN FRANCISCO PENINSULA COAST- EAST BAY INTERIOR VALLEYS-EAST BAY HILLS AND DIABLO RANGE- SANTA CRUZ MOUNTAINS-SANTA CLARA VALLEY...INCLUDING SAN JOSE- MONTEREY BAY...NORTHERN SALINAS VALLEY...HOLLISTER VALLEY...AND CARMEL VALLEY-BIG SUR COAST- 1110 AM PST SUN DEC 18 2005 ...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 3 PM PST THIS AFTERNOON... A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT WIND GUSTS OF AT LEAST 45 MPH ARE EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT... ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. POWER OUTAGES MAY ALSO OCCUR. USE EXTRA CAUTION. $$ ANDERSON
The office that day
Everything else NWS San Francisco Bay Area, CA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 18, 9:34 AM PST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MTR | Napa | 26 min |
| Dec 18, 9:56 AM PST | Special Marine Warning | MTR | 34 min | |
| Dec 18, 10:18 AM PST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MTR | Marin, City and County of San Francisco, San Mateo | 27 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.