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High Wind Watch 5, NWS San Diego, CA

January 29, 2008San Bernardino County, California

NWS San Diego, CA issued this high wind watch at Jan 29, 2008, 1:26 PM PST for San Bernardino County, California. It took effect at Jan 30, 2008, 4:00 AM PST. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jan 29, 2008, 1:26 PM PST (21:26 UTC)
In effect from
Jan 30, 2008, 4:00 AM PST
Expired
Jan 29, 2008, 8:40 PM PST
In force
Issued by
NWS San Diego, CA

County San Bernardino County, CA

The nearest sounding before it

Mercury/Desert R, NV (KDRA), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 198 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, Mercury/Desert R, NV at 12:00Z on 2008-01-29Temperature 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°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Mercury/Desert R, NV at 12:00Z on 2008-01-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 33 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
2316 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
33 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
211 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 San Diego, CA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this high wind watch went out at Jan 29, 9:40 AM PST, 3 hours 46 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 29, 9:40 AM PST, 3 hours 46 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Jan 29, 4:00 AM PST, 9 hours 26 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN DIEGO CA
400 AM PST TUE JAN 29 2008

CAZ042-043-048-050-055-056-057-058-060-061-062-301200-
ORANGE COUNTY COASTAL AREAS-
SAN DIEGO COUNTY COASTAL AREAS-
SAN BERNARDINO AND RIVERSIDE COUNTY VALLEYS-THE INLAND EMPIRE-
SAN DIEGO COUNTY VALLEYS-
SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY MOUNTAINS-
RIVERSIDE COUNTY MOUNTAINS-
SANTA ANA MOUNTAINS AND FOOTHILLS-
SAN DIEGO COUNTY MOUNTAINS-
APPLE AND LUCERNE VALLEYS-
COACHELLA VALLEY-
SAN DIEGO COUNTY DESERTS-
400 AM PST TUE JAN 29 2008

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR
ALL OF EXTREME SOUTHWESTERN CALIFORNIA.

.DAY ONE... TODAY THROUGH TONIGHT.

* HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK AT COAST.

* POSSIBLE STRONG NORTHWEST WINDS GUSTING TO 50 MPH
  IN THE MOUNTAINS AND DESERTS TONIGHT.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY.

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...
SKYWARN WEATHER SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT REQUESTED FOR THIS AREA...
HOWEVER WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER
CONDITIONS ACCORDING TO STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES.

MACKECHNIE

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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.