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High Wind Watch 3, NWS San Francisco Bay Area, CA

April 9, 201011 counties in California

NWS San Francisco Bay Area, CA issued this high wind watch at Apr 9, 2010, 2:04 PM PDT for 11 counties in California. It took effect at Apr 11, 2010, 5:00 AM PDT. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 9, 2010, 2:04 PM PDT (21:04 UTC)
In effect from: Apr 11, 2010, 5:00 AM PDT
Expired: Apr 10, 2010, 3:16 AM PDT
In force
Issued by: NWS San Francisco Bay Area, CA

Counties Alameda County, CA, City and County of San Francisco, CA, Contra Costa County, CA, Marin County, CA, Monterey County, CA, Napa County, CA, San Benito County, CA, San Mateo County, CA, Santa Clara County, CA, Santa Cruz County, CA, Sonoma County, CA

The radar

The San Francisco radar (KMUX), 46 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:05 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 wind watch 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 wind watch went out at Apr 9, 11:00 AM PDT, 3 hours 4 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 9, 11:00 AM PDT, 3 hours 4 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 9, 2:03 PM PDT, 1 minute before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA
203 PM PDT FRI APR 9 2010

CAZ006-505>513-516>518-528>530-PZZ530-535-102115-
SAN FRANCISCO-
COASTAL NORTH BAY...INCLUDING POINT REYES NATIONAL SEASHORE-
NORTH BAY INTERIOR VALLEYS-NORTH BAY MOUNTAINS-
SAN FRANCISCO BAY SHORELINE-SAN FRANCISCO PENINSULA COAST-
EAST BAY INTERIOR VALLEYS-EAST BAY HILLS AND DIABLO RANGE-
SANTA CRUZ MOUNTAINS-SANTA CLARA VALLEY...INCLUDING SAN JOSE-
SOUTHERN SALINAS VALLEY...ARROYO SECO...AND LAKE SAN ANTONIO-
SANTA LUCIA MOUNTAINS AND LOS PADRES NATIONAL FOREST-
MOUNTAINS OF SAN BENITO AND INTERIOR MONTEREY COUNTY INCLUDING
PINNACLES NATIONAL MONUMENT-
NORTHERN SALINAS VALLEY...HOLLISTER VALLEY...AND CARMEL VALLEY-
NORTHERN MONTEREY BAY-SOUTHERN MONTEREY BAY AND BIG SUR COAST-
SAN FRANCISCO/SAN PABLO/SUISUN BAYS AND THE WEST DELTA-
MONTEREY BAY-
203 PM PDT FRI APR 9 2010

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA AND
MONTEREY BAY AREA.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT

CLEAR SKIES WILL GIVE WAY TO INCREASING CLOUDS OVERNIGHT.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY

AN UNSEASONABLY STRONG PACIFIC STORM SYSTEM WILL PUSH THROUGH CENTRAL
CALIFORNIA SUNDAY AND SUNDAY NIGHT BRINGING INCREASED SOUTHERLY
WINDS AND THE POTENTIAL FOR MODERATE TO OCCASIONALLY HEAVY
RAINFALL. WINDS WILL BE STRONGEST OVER THE RIDGE TOPS AND ALONG
THE COASTLINE. POST- FRONTAL SHOWERS WILL PERSIST INTO MONDAY.
TOTAL RAINFALL BY MONDAY AFTERNOON COULD REACH ONE TO TWO INCHES
OF NEW RAIN.

*    HIGH WIND WATCH...SFONPWMTR WWUS76 KMTR FOR DETAILS    *

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER
CONDITIONS PER STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Apr 9, 4:11 AM PDT	Small Craft Advisory for Rough Bar	MTR	17 hr
Apr 9, 4:11 AM PDT	Small Craft Advisory	MTR	19 hr
Apr 9, 2:30 PM PDT	Gale Watch	MTR	13 hr

Nearby

High Wind Watches in California, 2010 Every high wind watch 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.