Alert archive / California / Wind Advisories in 2011
Wind Advisory 7, NWS San Francisco Bay Area, CA
NWS San Francisco Bay Area, CA issued this wind advisory at Dec 1, 2011, 6:41 PM PST for Monterey County, California. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 1, 2011, 6:41 PM PST (02:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 2, 2011, 12:00 AM PST
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS San Francisco Bay Area, CA
County Monterey County, CA
The radar
The San Francisco radar (KMUX), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:43 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Vandenberg AFB, CA (KVBG), launched 00:00Z, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 183 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
- 2629 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -49 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -25 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
557 WWUS76 KMTR 020241 NPWMTR URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA 641 PM PST THU DEC 1 2011 CAZ517-020800- /O.NEW.KMTR.WI.Y.0007.111202T0241Z-111202T0800Z/ SANTA LUCIA MOUNTAINS AND LOS PADRES NATIONAL FOREST- 641 PM PST THU DEC 1 2011 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT PST TONIGHT... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT PST TONIGHT...FOR THE SANTA LUCIA MOUNTAINS. * WINDS: STRONG AND GUSTY NORTHEAST WINDS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THURSDAY EVENING. WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH ARE LIKELY OVER EXPOSED RIDGES AND THROUGH COASTAL CANYONS. * IMPACTS: DOWNED TREES AND BRANCHES MAY CAUSE POWER OUTAGES. LOOSE OBJECTS NOT TIED DOWN MAY BLOW AROUND. DRIVING HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES WILL BE DIFFICULT. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT SUSTAINED WINDS OF 35 MPH ARE EXPECTED...OR GUSTS TO AT LEAST 45 MPH. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. && $$ CAZ509-512-021400- /O.EXA.KMTR.WI.Y.0006.000000T0000Z-111202T1800Z/ SAN FRANCISCO PENINSULA COAST-SANTA CRUZ MOUNTAINS- 641 PM PST THU DEC 1 2011 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM PST FRIDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM PST FRIDAY...FOR THE SANTA CRUZ MOUNTAINS AND SAN FRANCISCO PENINSULA COAST. * WINDS: STRONG AND GUSTY NORTHEAST WINDS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH LATE FRIDAY MORNING. WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH ARE LIKELY OVER EXPOSED RIDGES AND THROUGH COASTAL CANYONS. * IMPACTS: DOWNED TREES AND BRANCHES MAY CAUSE POWER OUTAGES. LOOSE OBJECTS NOT TIED DOWN MAY BLOW AROUND. DRIVING HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES WILL BE DIFFICULT. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT SUSTAINED WINDS OF 35 MPH ARE EXPECTED...OR GUSTS TO AT LEAST 45 MPH. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. && $$ CAZ516-021400- /O.CON.KMTR.FR.Y.0004.111202T0800Z-111202T1700Z/ SOUTHERN SALINAS VALLEY...ARROYO SECO...AND LAKE SAN ANTONIO- 641 PM PST THU DEC 1 2011 ...FROST ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM MIDNIGHT TONIGHT TO 9 AM PST FRIDAY... A FROST ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM MIDNIGHT TONIGHT TO 9 AM PST FRIDAY FOR THE SOUTHERN SALINAS VALLEY...THE ARROYO SECO AREA...AND THE LAKE SAN ANTONIO AREA. * TEMPERATURE: OVERNIGHT LOW TEMPERATURES WILL RANGE FROM THE MID 20S TO LOWER 30S. * IMPACTS: PLANTS SENSITIVE TO FREEZING TEMPERATURES MAY BE SEVERELY DAMAGED IF LEFT UNPROTECTED TONIGHT. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A FROST ADVISORY MEANS THAT FROST IS POSSIBLE. SENSITIVE OUTDOOR PLANTS MAY BE DAMAGED OR KILLED IF LEFT UNCOVERED. && $$ CAZ511-021400- /O.CON.KMTR.WI.Y.0006.000000T0000Z-111202T1800Z/ EAST BAY HILLS AND DIABLO RANGE- 641 PM PST THU DEC 1 2011 ...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM PST FRIDAY... A WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM PST FRIDAY FOR THE EAST BAY HILLS. * WINDS: STRONG AND GUSTY NORTHEAST WINDS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH LATE FRIDAY MORNING. WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH ARE LIKELY OVER EXPOSED RIDGES. * IMPACTS: DOWNED TREES AND BRANCHES MAY CAUSE POWER OUTAGES. LOOSE OBJECTS NOT TIED DOWN MAY BLOW AROUND. DRIVING HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES WILL BE DIFFICULT AND POSSIBLY DANGEROUS. ANY STRUCTURE FIRE OR WILDFIRE COULD BE DIFFICULT TO SUPPRESS DUE TO THE STRONG WINDS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT SUSTAINED WINDS OF 35 MPH ARE EXPECTED OR GUSTS AS HIGH AS 45 MPH. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. && $$ CAZ507-021400- /O.CON.KMTR.WI.Y.0006.000000T0000Z-111202T1800Z/ NORTH BAY MOUNTAINS- 641 PM PST THU DEC 1 2011 ...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM PST FRIDAY... A WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM PST FRIDAY FOR THE NORTH BAY MOUNTAINS. * WINDS: STRONG AND GUSTY NORTHEAST WINDS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH LATE FRIDAY MORNING. WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH ARE LIKELY OVER EXPOSED RIDGES. * IMPACTS: DOWNED TREES AND BRANCHES MAY CAUSE POWER OUTAGES. LOOSE OBJECTS NOT TIED DOWN MAY BLOW AROUND. DRIVING HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES WILL BE DIFFICULT AND POSSIBLY DANGEROUS. ANY STRUCTURE FIRE OR WILDFIRE COULD BE DIFFICULT TO SUPPRESS DUE TO THE STRONG WINDS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT SUSTAINED WINDS OF 35 MPH ARE EXPECTED OR GUSTS AS HIGH AS 45 MPH. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. && $$ DYKEMA
The office that day
Everything else NWS San Francisco Bay Area, CA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 2, 1:28 PM PST | Wind Advisory | MTR | San Mateo, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz | 21 hr |
Nearby
Wind Advisories in California, 2011Every wind advisory in 2011
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.