Alert archive / California / High Surf Advisories in 2010

High Surf Advisory 4, NWS San Francisco Bay Area, CA

January 21, 20105 counties in California

NWS San Francisco Bay Area, CA issued this high surf advisory at Jan 21, 2010, 2:23 PM PST for 5 counties in California. It was in force for 38 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jan 21, 2010, 2:23 PM PST (22:23 UTC)
Expired: Jan 23, 2010, 4:00 AM PST
In force: 38 hr
Issued by: NWS San Francisco Bay Area, CA

Counties Marin County, CA, Monterey County, CA, San Mateo County, CA, Santa Cruz County, CA, Sonoma County, CA

The radar

The San Francisco radar (KMUX), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:26 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

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 Francisco Bay Area, CA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this high surf advisory went out at Jan 21, 9:49 AM PST, 4 hours 34 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 21, 9:49 AM PST, 4 hours 34 minutes before

<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
  <title>Service Notice</title>
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="index.css">
</head>
<body>
  <main class="wrap">
    <section class="card" role="status" aria-live="polite">
      <div class="status" id="status">Temporary Notice</div>
      <h1 id="headline">This service is currently unavailable.</h1>
      <p id="message1">
        The site you requested is temporarily down for maintenance or an unexpected outage.
      </p>
      <p id="message2">
        Please try again in a few minutes.
      </p>
      <p class="small" id="detail">
        If you are an administrator, restore upstream service and remove the redirect/fallback rule when normal operations resume.
      </p>
    </section>
  </main>
  <script src="index.js"></script>
</body>
</html>

Hazardous weather outlook, Jan 21, 5:28 AM PST, 8 hours 55 minutes before

<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
  <title>Service Notice</title>
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="index.css">
</head>
<body>
  <main class="wrap">
    <section class="card" role="status" aria-live="polite">
      <div class="status" id="status">Temporary Notice</div>
      <h1 id="headline">This service is currently unavailable.</h1>
      <p id="message1">
        The site you requested is temporarily down for maintenance or an unexpected outage.
      </p>
      <p id="message2">
        Please try again in a few minutes.
      </p>
      <p class="small" id="detail">
        If you are an administrator, restore upstream service and remove the redirect/fallback rule when normal operations resume.
      </p>
    </section>
  </main>
  <script src="index.js"></script>
</body>
</html>

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jan 21, 1:56 PM PST, 27 minutes before

<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
  <title>Service Notice</title>
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="index.css">
</head>
<body>
  <main class="wrap">
    <section class="card" role="status" aria-live="polite">
      <div class="status" id="status">Temporary Notice</div>
      <h1 id="headline">This service is currently unavailable.</h1>
      <p id="message1">
        The site you requested is temporarily down for maintenance or an unexpected outage.
      </p>
      <p id="message2">
        Please try again in a few minutes.
      </p>
      <p class="small" id="detail">
        If you are an administrator, restore upstream service and remove the redirect/fallback rule when normal operations resume.
      </p>
    </section>
  </main>
  <script src="index.js"></script>
</body>
</html>

The office that day

Everything else NWS San Francisco Bay Area, CA issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 20, 5:11 PM PST	Special Weather Statement	MTR	San Benito	49 min
Jan 20, 5:14 PM PST	Special Weather Statement	MTR	Napa	46 min
Jan 20, 5:36 PM PST	Special Marine Warning	MTR		24 min
Jan 20, 6:34 PM PST	Special Weather Statement	MTR	San Mateo	26 min
Jan 20, 7:01 PM PST	Special Weather Statement	MTR	San Mateo	29 min
Jan 20, 7:18 PM PST	Special Marine Warning	MTR		27 min
Jan 20, 7:32 PM PST	Special Weather Statement	MTR	Alameda	28 min
Jan 20, 8:43 PM PST	Special Weather Statement	MTR	Marin	47 min
Jan 20, 9:06 PM PST	Gale Warning	MTR		6 hr
Jan 21, 4:07 AM PST	Small Craft Advisory	MTR		47 hr
Jan 21, 8:42 AM PST	Small Craft Advisory for Hazardous Seas	MTR		43 hr

Nearby

High Surf Advisories in California, 2010 Every high surf advisory in 2010

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.