Alert archive / California / Wind Advisories in 2008
Wind Advisory 3, NWS San Francisco Bay Area, CA
NWS San Francisco Bay Area, CA issued this wind advisory at Jan 4, 2008, 9:06 PM PST for 4 counties in California. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 4, 2008, 9:06 PM PST (05:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 5, 2008, 12:00 AM PST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS San Francisco Bay Area, CA
Counties Alameda County, CA, Contra Costa County, CA, Monterey County, CA, San Benito County, CA
The radar
The San Francisco radar (KMUX), 30 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:14 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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
Oakland, CA (KOAK), launched 00:00Z, 5.1 hours before the alert went out and 89 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
- 2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 614 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 86 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -147 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -107 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 050506 NPWMTR URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN FRANCISCO CA 906 PM PST FRI JAN 4 2008 ...STRONG WINDS TO CONTINUE THROUGH MIDNIGHT IN THE MOUNTAINS OF MONTEREY AND SAN BENITO COUNTIES WHILE WINDS WILL DECREASE IN THE EAST BAY HILLS AND THE VALLEYS... .THE POWERFUL FRONTAL SYSTEM IS NOW SOUTH AND EAST OF THE DISTRICT. HOWEVER SOME STRONG WINDS EXIST IMMEDIATELY BEHIND THE FRONT WHICH WILL AFFECT THE MOUNTAINS OF MONTEREY AND SAN BENITO COUNTIES UNTIL MIDNIGHT. CAZ515-517-518-050800- /O.EXP.KMTR.HW.W.0001.000000T0000Z-080105T0500Z/ /O.NEW.KMTR.WI.Y.0003.080105T0506Z-080105T0800Z/ BIG SUR COAST- SANTA LUCIA MOUNTAINS AND LOS PADRES NATIONAL FOREST- MOUNTAINS OF SAN BENITO AND INTERIOR MONTEREY COUNTY INCLUDING PINNACLES NATIONAL MONUMENT- 906 PM PST FRI JAN 4 2008 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT PST TONIGHT... ...HIGH WIND WARNING HAS EXPIRED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN FRANCISCO HAS DOWNGRADED THE HIGH WIND WARNING TO A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT PST TONIGHT. STRONG GUSTY WINDS UP TO 50 MPH WILL STILL BE POSSIBLE THROUGH THE EVENING HOURS IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING THE PASSAGE OF A POTENT COLD FRONT. WINDS WILL DECREASE TO BELOW ADVISORY CRITERIA AFTER MIDNIGHT. 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. $$ CAZ514-516-050615- /O.EXP.KMTR.HW.W.0001.000000T0000Z-080105T0500Z/ MONTEREY BAY...NORTHERN SALINAS VALLEY...HOLLISTER VALLEY...AND CARMEL VALLEY- SOUTHERN SALINAS VALLEY...ARROYO SECO...AND LAKE SAN ANTONIO- 906 PM PST FRI JAN 4 2008 ...HIGH WIND WARNING HAS EXPIRED... THE HIGH WIND WARNING IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT. WINDS HAVE DECREASED AS THE FRONTAL SYSTEM MOVES FURTHER AWAY FROM THE AREA. $$ CAZ511-512-050615- /O.EXP.KMTR.WI.Y.0002.000000T0000Z-080105T0500Z/ EAST BAY HILLS AND DIABLO RANGE-SANTA CRUZ MOUNTAINS- 906 PM PST FRI JAN 4 2008 ...WIND ADVISORY HAS EXPIRED... WINDS WILL CONTINUE TO DECREASE THIS EVENING AS THE STORM SYSTEM MOVES FURTHER AWAY FROM THE AREA. THEREFORE THE WIND ADVISORY IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT. $$ W PI
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS76 KMTR 050806 NPWMTR URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN FRANCISCO CA 1206 AM PST SAT JAN 5 2008 ...WIND ADVISORY HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE... .THE STRONG STORM SYSTEM THAT BROUGHT THE HIGH WINDS HAS MOVED SOUTH OF THE AREA. THEREFORE THE WIND ADVISORY HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. CAZ515-517-518-050915- /O.EXP.KMTR.WI.Y.0003.000000T0000Z-080105T0800Z/ BIG SUR COAST- SANTA LUCIA MOUNTAINS AND LOS PADRES NATIONAL FOREST- MOUNTAINS OF SAN BENITO AND INTERIOR MONTEREY COUNTY INCLUDING PINNACLES NATIONAL MONUMENT- 1206 AM PST SAT JAN 5 2008 ...WIND ADVISORY HAS EXPIRED... THE WIND ADVISORY IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT. $$ STROBIN
The office that day
Everything else NWS San Francisco Bay Area, CA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 5, 8:47 AM PST | Special Marine Warning | MTR | 58 min | |
| Jan 5, 9:41 AM PST | Special Marine Warning | MTR | 64 min | |
| Jan 5, 11:01 AM PST | Marine Weather Statement | MTR | 3 hr | |
| Jan 5, 11:24 AM PST | Special Marine Warning | MTR | 51 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.