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Wind Advisory 11, NWS Los Angeles, CA

February 8, 2009Los Angeles County, California

NWS Los Angeles, CA issued this wind advisory at Feb 8, 2009, 10:08 PM PST for Los Angeles County, California. It was in force for 29 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Feb 8, 2009, 10:08 PM PST (06:08 UTC)
Expired
Feb 10, 2009, 3:00 AM PST
In force
29 hr
Issued by
NWS Los Angeles, CA

County Los Angeles County, CA

The radar

The Santa Ana Mts radar (KSOX), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:12 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this wind advisory 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 wind advisory went out at Feb 8, 2:30 PM PST, 7 hours 38 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 8, 2:30 PM PST, 7 hours 38 minutes before
SOUTHWEST CALIFORNIA AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOS ANGELES/OXNARD CA
230 PM PST SUN FEB 8 2009

.SHORT TERM...WILL ISSUE A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SNOW
AND BLOWING SNOW ABOVE 3500 FEET FOR SANTA BARBARA
...VENTURA AND LOS ANGELES COUNTIES TONIGHT. A FRONTAL BOUNDARY
230 MILES OFF THE CENTRAL COAST WITH A NARROW MOISTURE FIELD WILL
MOVE ASHORE TONIGHT. A SURFACE TROUGH IS EXPECTED TO MOVE ASHORE
FOLLOWING THE FRONT MONDAY AND SHOWERS WILL PERSIST OVER THE AREA
THROUGH THE EVENING. MOISTURE IS LIMITED WITHIN THE LEADING BOUNDARY
AND IN THE COOLER FOLLOWING AIR MASS UPSTREAM. IT IS LIKELY
HIGHER RAIN RATES WILL OCCUR FOLLOWING THE FRONT MONDAY MORNING THROUGH
LATE AFTERNOON. GUIDANCE WAS REASONABLY CONSISTENT WITH LOWERING SNOW
LEVELS TO 3000 TO 3500 FEET OVERNIGHT THROUGH MONDAY MORNING.
TEMPERATURES AROUND 10 TO 20 DEGREES BELOW SEASONAL TODAY WILL LIKELY
COOL TO 15 TO 25 DEGREES BELOW NORMAL MONDAY...TEMPERATURES WILL
MODERATE TUE AND WED AS THE COOL SYSTEM EXITS THE AREA EARLY TUESDAY
AND AHEAD OF THE APPROACHING SYSTEM EARLY WED...BUT LIKELY TO REMAIN
SEVERAL DEGREES BELOW NORMAL.

.LONG TERM...GUIDANCE WAS CONSISTENT WITH PREVIOUS RUNS AND A LONG
WAVE RIDGE CENTERED OVER THE CENTRAL PACIFIC AND TROUGH OVER THE
WEST COAST WILL PERSIST THROUGH THE PERIOD. FRONTAL SYSTEM CURRENTLY
OVER THE CENTRAL PACIFIC THIS AFTERNOON WILL MOVE ASHORE WEDNESDAY
FOLLOWED BY THE SYSTEM OVER THE WESTERN PACIFIC ON FRIDAY. HAVE
ADJUSTED TIMING OF CHANCE POPS ON SAT UP TO FRI AND CONTINUED THE
CHANCE THROUGH SAT AS WELL AS INCLUDED CHANCE POPS SUNDAY AS A
PERSISTENT TROUGH LINGERS OVER THE AREA. TEMPERATURES 5 TO 15
DEGREES COOLER THAN SEASONAL NORMAL WILL LIKELY PERSIST THROUGH THE PERIOD.

&&

.AVIATION...08/2000Z...

LOW CONFIDENCE IN CURRENT TAF PACKAGE. AMPLE LOW LEVEL MOISTURE HAS
FED A FEW SHOWERS ACROSS THE AREA...BRINGING LOCAL MVFR CIGS TO A
FEW AIRFIELDS ALONG THE CENTRAL COAST. ANOTHER FRONT SHOULD PUSH
INTO THE AREA TONIGHT...AND SOME IFR VSBYS IN SHOWERS COULD BE
POSSIBLE TONIGHT.

FOR KLAX...MODERATE CONFIDENCE IN FIRST HALF OF TAF...WITH GENERALLY
VFR CONDITIONS EXPECTED...TURNING TO MVFR AFTER MIDNIGHT. LOW
CONFIDENCE AFTER MIDNIGHT...AS TIMING OF NEXT FRONT AND ASSOCIATED
RAIN IS UNCERTAIN.

FOR KBUR...MODERATE CONFIDENCE WITH GENERALLY VFR CONDITIONS
EXPECTED TO PERSIST THROUGH THIS EVENING...THEN MVFR TO LOCAL IFR
CONDS LIKELY AFTER MIDNIGHT WITH SHOWERS.

&&

.LOX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
HIGH SURF ADVISORY (SEE LAXCFWLOX).
WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY (SEE LAXWSWLOX).
WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY (SEE LAXWSWLOX).
GALE WARNING (SEE LAXMWWLOX).
SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY (SEE LAXMWWLOX).

&&

PUBLIC...30
AVIATION...MEIER

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 9, 3:21 AM PSTSmall Craft AdvisoryLOX6 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.