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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Los Angeles, CA

May 28, 2009San Luis Obispo County, California

NWS Los Angeles, CA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 28, 2009, 4:56 PM PDT for San Luis Obispo County, California. It was in force for 64 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 28, 2009, 4:56 PM PDT (23:56 UTC)
Expired
May 28, 2009, 6:00 PM PDT
In force
64 min
Issued by
NWS Los Angeles, CA
Area
Storm-based polygon

County San Luis Obispo County, CA

The nearest sounding before it

Vandenberg AFB, CA (KVBG), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 73 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, Vandenberg AFB, CA at 12:00Z on 2009-05-28Temperature 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, Vandenberg AFB, CA at 12:00Z on 2009-05-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 29 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
754 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
29 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
71 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Los Angeles, CA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 28, 2:00 PM PDT, 2 hours 56 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 28, 2:00 PM PDT, 2 hours 56 minutes before
SOUTHWEST CALIFORNIA AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOS ANGELES/OXNARD CA
200 PM PDT THU MAY 28 2009

.SHORT TERM (TONIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY)...LATEST SATELLITE/RADAR SHOWS
CONVECTIVE ACTIVITY AS EXPECTED OVER THE MOUNTAIN AREAS AND INTERIOR
VALLEYS...WITH MOST ACTIVITY OVER SLO/SBA/VTU COUNTIES. TSTMS WILL
LIKELY PRODUCE SMALL HAIL...HEAVY RAIN AND GUSTY WINDS. ALSO...NOT
OUT OF THE REALM OF POSSIBILITY TO GET AN ISOLATED DRY STRIKE AWAY
FROM THE MAIN THUNDERSTORM. PARAMETERS ARE RIPE FOR SEVERE AND/OR
FLASH FLOODING WARNINGS...SO RADAR WILL BE MONITORED CLOSELY THROUGH
THE AFTERNOON.

FORECAST WISE...12Z MODELS ARE ON THE SAME PAGE. AT UPPER LEVELS
RIDGE OVER THE SOUTHWEST STATES WILL BE PUSHED EASTWARD THROUGH THE
PERIOD AS A WEAK TROUGH MOVES INLAND OVER THE AREA. NEAR THE
SURFACE...ONSHORE FLOW IS FORECAST TO CONTINUE THROUGH SUNDAY. FOR
FRIDAY...MID-LEVEL FLOW TURNS SOUTHERLY...SO WILL EXPECT A DECREASE
IN CONVECTIVE ACTIVITY OVER THE HIGHER TERRAIN. STILL SHOULD BE
ENOUGH MOISTURE AND INSTABILITY TO WARRANT SLIGHT CHANCE POPS FOR
SBA/VTU/LAX MOUNTAINS AND PARTS OF THE CUYAMA VALLEY. BY SATURDAY
WITH THE TROUGH MOVING OVERHEAD...CONVECTIVE THREAT WILL BE NIL.
OTHERWISE...EXPECT CONTINUED DEEP MARINE LAYER FOR THE AREA WITH
STRATUS REACHING INTO THE SANTA CLARITA VALLEY EACH NIGHT/MORNING
THROUGH SUNDAY. AS FOR TEMPS...EXPECT ONLY MINOR FLUCTUATIONS
THROUGH SUNDAY WITH HIGHS HOVERING AROUND SEASONAL NORMS.

.LONG TERM (MONDAY THROUGH THURSDAY)...FOR THE EXTENDED...MODELS
SEEM TO BE IN GENERAL AGREEMENT THROUGH THE PERIOD WITH THE MAIN
FOCUS ON A DEVELOPING UPPER LOW. THIS UPPER LOW DEVELOPS OVER
THE EASTERN PACIFIC...AND DROPS IT SOUTHEAST TO A COUPLE HUNDRED
MILES WEST OF THE CENTRAL COAST BY WEDNESDAY/THURSDAY. AT THIS
TIME...DIFFICULT TO DETERMINE EXACTLY HOW MUCH MOISTURE THE
SOUTH TO SOUTHWEST FLOW AROUND THIS SYSTEM WILL HAVE TO WORK WITH.
SO...AT THIS TIME...WILL NOT INTRODUCE ANY MENTIONABLE POPS INTO
THE FORECAST. HOWEVER...DEPENDING ON FUTURE MODEL RUNS...POPS MAY
HAVE TO BE ADDED TO THE FORECAST. NO MATTER WHAT HAPPENS WITH THE
RAIN CHANCES...THIS SCENARIO WILL RESULT IN COOLER TEMPS FOR ALL
AREAS THROUGH THE PERIOD...AND PARTLY TO MOSTLY CLOUDY SKIES.

&&

.AVIATION...28/1825Z.
MOST COASTAL TAF SITES ARE ON THE VERGE OF CLEARING WITH A FAIRLY
QUICK RETURN OF LOW CLOUDS AND FOG EXPECTED AGAIN EARLY THIS
EVENING. COASTAL SITES WILL EXPERIENCE MVFR CONDITIONS...LOCAL IFR
CONDITIONS ON THE CENTRAL COAST...TONIGHT WHILE THE VALLEY TAFS WILL
EXPERIENCE MVFR TO LOCAL IFR CONDITIONS LATER TONIGHT. ANOTHER
AREA OF CONCERN IS THE ANTELOPE VALLEY THIS AFTERNOON WHERE THERE IS
A SLIGHT CHANCE OF AFTERNOON CONVECTION AND VCTS HAS BEEN INCLUDED
IN THE TAFS.

KLAX...GOOD CONFIDENCE IN CLEARING AROUND 19 TO 20Z FOLLOWED BY
MOSTLY VFR CONDITIONS THIS AFTERNOON ASIDE FROM AN AFTERNOON
INTRUSION BY THE LOW CLOUDS ALONG WITH THE SEA BREEZE CAUSING MVFR
CEILINGS. BY EARLY THIS EVENING THE LOW CLOUDS AND FOG ARE BACK TO
STAY WITH MVFR CONDITIONS LASTING THROUGH THE NIGHT AND THROUGH MOST
OF FRIDAY MORNING.

KBUR...GOOD CONFIDENCE IN VFR CONDITIONS THROUGH LATE THIS EVENING
WHEN THE LOW CLOUDS AND FOG RETURN AND CAUSE MVFR TO LOCAL IFR
CONDITIONS FOR THE REST OF THE NIGHT AND THROUGH MID MORNING FRIDAY.

&&

.LOX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
NONE

&&

PUBLIC...THOMPSON
AVIATION...SWEET

WWW.WEATHER.GOV/LOSANGELES
Hazardous weather outlook, May 28, 6:00 AM PDT, 10 hours 56 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOS ANGELES/OXNARD CA
600 AM PDT THU MAY 28 2009

CAZ034>041-044>046-051>054-059-087-088-547-548-291300-
SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY CENTRAL COAST-
SANTA BARBARA COUNTY CENTRAL COAST-SANTA YNEZ VALLEY-
SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY INTERIOR VALLEYS-CUYAMA VALLEY-
SANTA BARBARA COUNTY SOUTH COAST-VENTURA COUNTY COAST-
LOS ANGELES COUNTY COAST INCLUDING DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES-
VENTURA COUNTY INTERIOR VALLEYS-VENTURA COUNTY COASTAL VALLEYS-
SANTA MONICA MOUNTAINS RECREATIONAL AREA-
SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY MOUNTAINS-
SANTA BARBARA COUNTY MOUNTAINS-VENTURA COUNTY MOUNTAINS-
LOS ANGELES COUNTY MOUNTAINS EXCLUDING THE SANTA MONICA RANGE-
ANTELOPE VALLEY-CATALINA ISLAND-SANTA CLARITA VALLEY-
LOS ANGELES COUNTY SAN FERNANDO VALLEY-
LOS ANGELES COUNTY SAN GABRIEL VALLEY-
600 AM PDT THU MAY 28 2009

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHWESTERN CALIFORNIA.

.DAY ONE... TODAY AND TONIGHT

THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE OF AFTERNOON AND EVENING SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS MAINLY OVER THE MOUNTAINS AND DESERT. THE MAIN THREAT
WITH THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE GUSTY WINDS AND POSSIBLE DRY LIGHTNING.
LITTLE RAINFALL...IF ANY...IS EXPECTED.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY

THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS MAINLY OVER THE MOUNTAINS
AND DESERT ON FRIDAY. THE MAIN THREAT WITH THESE POSSIBLE STORMS
WILL BE GUSTY WINDS AND POSSIBLE DRY LIGHTNING. LITTLE RAINFALL...IF
ANY...IS EXPECTED.

HALL

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 28, 4:40 PM PDT, 16 minutes before
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Los Angeles, CA issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 28, 2:21 PM PDTFlash Flood WarningLOXSan Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara99 min
May 28, 2:30 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLOXSan Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara90 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in California, 2009Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2009

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.