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High Surf Advisory 11, NWS San Diego, CA

April 13, 2011San Diego County, California

NWS San Diego, CA issued this high surf advisory at Apr 13, 2011, 1:49 AM PDT for San Diego County, California. It took effect at Apr 13, 2011, 2:00 AM PDT. It was in force for 11 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 13, 2011, 1:49 AM PDT (08:49 UTC)
In effect from
Apr 13, 2011, 2:00 AM PDT
Expired
Apr 13, 2011, 1:22 PM PDT
In force
11 hr
Issued by
NWS San Diego, CA

County San Diego County, CA

The radar

The San Diego radar (KNKX), 28 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:50 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

San Diego, CA (KNKX), launched 00:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 47 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, San Diego, CA at 00:00Z on 2011-04-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, San Diego, CA at 00:00Z on 2011-04-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -26 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
0 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-26 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
9 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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 Diego, CA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this high surf advisory went out at Apr 12, 9:20 PM PDT, 4 hours 29 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 12, 9:20 PM PDT, 4 hours 29 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 12, 4:11 PM PDT, 9 hours 38 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN DIEGO CA
411 PM PDT TUE APR 12 2011

CAZ055-056-058-060>062-132315-
SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY MOUNTAINS-RIVERSIDE COUNTY MOUNTAINS-
SAN DIEGO COUNTY MOUNTAINS-APPLE AND LUCERNE VALLEYS-
COACHELLA VALLEY-SAN DIEGO COUNTY DESERTS-
411 PM PDT TUE APR 12 2011

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF EXTREME
SOUTHWESTERN CALIFORNIA.

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. DEEPENING OF THE
MARINE LAYER MAY BRING SOME DRIZZLE TO THE COASTAL AREAS AND
VALLEYS LATER TONIGHT AS WELL AS A SLIGHT CHANCE OF RAIN TO THE
UPSLOPE AREAS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY

THE ONSHORE WINDS WILL INCREASE ON WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON AND
NIGHT...BRINGING GUSTY CONDITIONS OVER THE MOUNTAINS AND DESERTS.
AREAS OF BLOWING DUST AND SAND WILL BE POSSIBLE IN THE DESERTS.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...
SKYWARN WEATHER ACTIVATION IS NOT REQUESTED FOR THIS AREA...
HOWEVER WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT
WEATHER CONDITIONS.

The office that day

Everything else NWS San Diego, CA issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 13, 2:01 AM PDTSmall Craft AdvisorySGX25 hr
Apr 13, 3:06 AM PDTWind AdvisorySGXRiverside, San Bernardino, San Diego17 hr

Nearby

High Surf Advisories in California, 2011Every high surf 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.