Alert archive / California / Tornado Warnings in 2005
Tornado Warning 1, NWS San Diego, CA
NWS San Diego, CA issued this tornado warning at Feb 19, 2005, 9:43 AM PST for Riverside County, California. It was in force for 62 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 19, 2005, 9:43 AM PST (17:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 19, 2005, 10:45 AM PST
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS San Diego, CA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Riverside County, CA
The nearest sounding before it
San Diego, CA (KNKX), launched 12:00Z, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 88 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
- 323 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -12 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 629 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 131 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 163 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS56 KSGX 191743 TORSGX CAC065-191845- /X.NEW.KSGX.TO.W.0001.050219T1743Z-050219T1845Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN DIEGO CA 943 AM PST SAT FEB 19 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN DIEGO HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... WEST CENTRAL RIVERSIDE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST CALIFORNIA THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...TEMECULA...HEMET * UNTIL 1045 AM PST * AT 937 AM PST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR TEMECULA... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... HEMET BY 1025 AM PST EAST HEMET BY 1030 AM PST IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. LAT...LON 3347 11725 3343 11708 3372 11686 3383 11710 $$ ATKIN
The office that day
Everything else NWS San Diego, CA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 19, 6:50 AM PST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGX | Orange | 55 min |
| Feb 19, 8:53 AM PST | Flash Flood Warning | SGX | Orange, San Bernardino | 5 hr |
| Feb 19, 9:28 AM PST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGX | Riverside, San Diego | 92 min |
| Feb 19, 1:55 PM PST | Flash Flood Warning | SGX | San Bernardino, San Diego | 4 hr |
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.