Alert archive / California / Wind Advisories in 2008
Wind Advisory 71, NWS San Diego, CA
NWS San Diego, CA issued this wind advisory at May 13, 2008, 8:21 AM PDT for Riverside County, San Bernardino County, California. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 13, 2008, 8:21 AM PDT (15:21 UTC)
- Expired
- May 13, 2008, 1:27 PM PDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS San Diego, CA
The radar
The Santa Ana Mts radar (KSOX), 152 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:22 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 12:00Z, 3.4 hours before the alert went out and 195 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 701 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 38 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 30 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 KSGX 131521 NPWSGX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN DIEGO CA 821 AM PDT TUE MAY 13 2008 ...GUSTY NORTH TO NORTHEAST WINDS ACROSS THE SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY MOUNTAINS AND THE SAN BERNARDINO AND RIVERSIDE COUNTY VALLEYS THROUGH 3 PM THIS AFTERNOON... .HIGH PRESSURE BUILDING OVER THE PLATEAU WILL BRING GUSTY NORTH TO NORTHEAST WINDS TO THE SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY MOUNTAINS AND LOCALLY INTO THE INLAND EMPIRE. SOME LOCALLY REDUCED VISIBILITIES IN BLOWING DUST ARE POSSIBLE. THE WINDS SHOULD SUBSIDE DURING THE EARLY AFTERNOON HOURS TODAY. CAZ048-055-132200- /O.NEW.KSGX.WI.Y.0071.080513T1521Z-080513T2200Z/ SAN BERNARDINO AND RIVERSIDE COUNTY VALLEYS-THE INLAND EMPIRE- SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY MOUNTAINS- 821 AM PDT TUE MAY 13 2008 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 3 PM PDT THIS AFTERNOON... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN DIEGO HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 3 PM PDT THIS AFTERNOON. GUSTY NORTH TO NORTHEAST WINDS 20 TO 30 MPH WITH GUSTS TO AROUND 45 MPH ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP...ESPECIALLY IN AND BELOW THE CAJON PASS. THE WINDS SHOULD CONTINUE THROUGH THE EARLY AFTERNOON HOURS...THEN SUBSIDE. A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT WIND GUSTS AT OR ABOVE 35 MPH ARE EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. MOTORISTS ARE ADVISED TO USE EXTRA CAUTION. $$ SMALL/GONSALVES
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS76 KSGX 132027 NPWSGX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN DIEGO CA 127 PM PDT TUE MAY 13 2008 ...THE WIND ADVISORY HAS BEEN CANCELLED... CAZ048-055-132130- /O.CAN.KSGX.WI.Y.0071.000000T0000Z-080513T2200Z/ SAN BERNARDINO AND RIVERSIDE COUNTY VALLEYS-THE INLAND EMPIRE- SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY MOUNTAINS- 122 PM PDT TUE MAY 13 2008 ...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN DIEGO HAS CANCELLED THE WIND ADVISORY. THE OFFSHORE FLOW AT THE SURFACE HAS WEAKENED SOMEWHAT OVER THE AREA...AND WIND GUSTS ARE EXPECTED TO BE BELOW CRITERIA. $$ SMALL
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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.