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High Wind Watch 5, NWS Seattle, WA

November 11, 2007San Juan County, Washington

NWS Seattle, WA issued this high wind watch at Nov 11, 2007, 4:03 AM PST for San Juan County, Washington. It took effect at Nov 12, 2007, 4:00 AM PST. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Nov 11, 2007, 4:03 AM PST (12:03 UTC)
In effect from
Nov 12, 2007, 4:00 AM PST
Expired
Nov 11, 2007, 3:58 PM PST
In force
Issued by
NWS Seattle, WA

County San Juan County, WA

The radar

The Seattle radar (KATX), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:04 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

Quillayute State, WA (KUIL), launched 12:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 127 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, Quillayute State, WA at 12:00Z on 2007-11-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Quillayute State, WA at 12:00Z on 2007-11-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 86 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
3 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-5 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
703 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
62 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
86 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
118 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this high wind watch went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Seattle, WA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this high wind watch went out at Nov 11, 3:35 AM PST, 28 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Nov 11, 3:35 AM PST, 28 minutes before
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Seattle, WA issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Nov 11, 2:36 PM PSTHigh Surf AdvisorySEW36 hr
Nov 11, 3:29 PM PSTHigh Wind WatchSEW13 hr
Nov 11, 3:29 PM PSTHigh Wind WarningSEWSan Juan23 hr

Nearby

High Wind Watches in Washington, 2007Every high wind watch in 2007

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.