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High Wind Watch 12, NWS Los Angeles, CA
NWS Los Angeles, CA issued this high wind watch at Nov 29, 2011, 4:03 AM PST for Los Angeles County, California. It took effect at Nov 30, 2011, 7:00 PM PST. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 29, 2011, 4:03 AM PST (12:03 UTC)
- In effect from
- Nov 30, 2011, 7:00 PM PST
- Expired
- Nov 29, 2011, 3:25 PM PST
- In force
- 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 12:08 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, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 184 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
- 4651 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 56 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 46 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Los Angeles, CA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this high wind watch went out at Nov 29, 3:30 AM PST, 33 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Nov 29, 3:30 AM PST, 33 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Los Angeles, CA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 29, 9:48 AM PST | Fire Weather Watch | LOX | Los Angeles | 6 hr |
| Nov 29, 3:25 PM PST | High Wind Warning | LOX | Los Angeles | 65 hr |
| Nov 29, 3:37 PM PST | Red Flag Warning | LOX | Los Angeles | 66 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.