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High Surf Advisory 4, NWS San Diego, CA
NWS San Diego, CA issued this high surf advisory at Feb 4, 2008, 12:27 AM PST for Riverside County, San Diego County, California. It was in force for 14 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 4, 2008, 12:27 AM PST (08:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 4, 2008, 2:00 PM PST
- In force
- 14 hr
- Issued by
- NWS San Diego, CA
Counties Riverside County, CA, San Diego County, CA
The radar
The San Diego radar (KNKX), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:29 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
San Diego, CA (KNKX), launched 00:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 100 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
- 19 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 532 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 62 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 106 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 175 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this high surf advisory went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS San Diego, CA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this high surf advisory went out at Feb 3, 9:15 PM PST, 3 hours 12 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 3, 9:15 PM PST, 3 hours 12 minutes before
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Everything else NWS San Diego, CA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 3, 4:35 PM PST | Snow and Blowing Snow Advisory | SGX | Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego | 17 hr |
| Feb 3, 8:44 PM PST | Wind Advisory | SGX | Riverside, San Diego | 5 hr |
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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.