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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 1, NWS Eureka, CA

August 29, 2007Trinity County, California

NWS Eureka, CA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 29, 2007, 3:23 PM PDT for Trinity County, California. It was in force for 52 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
Aug 29, 2007, 3:23 PM PDT (22:23 UTC)
Expired
Aug 29, 2007, 4:15 PM PDT
In force
52 min
Issued by
NWS Eureka, CA
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Trinity County, CA

The radar

The Eureka (Bunker Hill) radar (KBHX), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:27 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

Medford/Jackson, OR (KMFR), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 200 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, Medford/Jackson, OR at 12:00Z on 2007-08-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Medford/Jackson, OR at 12:00Z on 2007-08-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 15 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
2090 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
10 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
15 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
80 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 KEKA 292224
SVREKA
CAC105-292315-
/O.NEW.KEKA.SV.W.0001.070829T2223Z-070829T2315Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EUREKA CA
323 PM PDT WED AUG 29 2007

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN EUREKA HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  WEST CENTRAL TRINITY COUNTY IN NORTHWEST CALIFORNIA

* UNTIL 415 PM PDT

* AT 323 PM PDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DIME SIZE HAIL.  THIS
  STORM WAS LOCATED 8 MILES SOUTH OF BIG BAR...OR ABOUT 6 MILES
  WEST OF HAYFORK...AND MOVING NORTHWEST AT 5 MPH.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
  HYAMPOM AND DEL LOMA

LAT...LON 4060 12354 4080 12334 4062 12310 4048 12324
TIME...MOT...LOC 2223Z 149DEG 8KT 4062 12327

$$
MJV
2 follow-up statements
000 
WWUS56 KEKA 292310
SVSEKA

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EUREKA CA
405 PM PDT WED AUG 29 2007

CAC105-292315-
/O.CON.KEKA.SV.W.0001.000000T0000Z-070829T2315Z/
TRINITY CA-
405 PM PDT WED AUG 29 2007

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 415 PM PDT FOR WEST
CENTRAL TRINITY... COUNTY...

AT 402 PM PDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DIME SIZE HAIL. 
THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 3 MILES SOUTH OF BIG BAR...OR ABOUT 9 MILES 
SOUTHEAST OF DEL LOMA...MOVING NORTHWEST AT 5 MPH.

THIS STORM HAS DECREASED IN INTENSITY DURING THE PAST 10 MINUTES.
    

OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO DEL
LOMA.

LAT...LON 4060 12354 4080 12334 4062 12310 4048 12324
TIME...MOT...LOC 2305Z 149DEG 8KT 4072 12331

$$
MJV
000 
WWUS56 KEKA 292316
SVSEKA

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EUREKA CA
415 PM PDT WED AUG 29 2007

CAC105-292325-
/O.EXP.KEKA.SV.W.0001.000000T0000Z-070829T2315Z/
TRINITY CA-
415 PM PDT WED AUG 29 2007

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR WEST CENTRAL TRINITY COUNTY 
HAS EXPIRED. A SLOW-MOVING THUNDERSTORM CONTINUES TO BRING HEAVY 
RAIN AND OCCASIONAL LIGHTNING TO EAST CENTRAL TRINITY COUNTY. 
HOWEVER...THE STORM HAS WEAKENED AND THE WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO 
EXPIRE. 

LAT...LON 4060 12354 4080 12334 4062 12310 4048 12324
TIME...MOT...LOC 2315Z 149DEG 8KT 4064 12330

$$
MJV

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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.