Alert archive / California / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2011

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS San Diego, CA

July 5, 2011San Diego County, California

NWS San Diego, CA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 5, 2011, 5:12 PM PDT for San Diego County, California. It was in force for 48 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jul 5, 2011, 5:12 PM PDT (00:12 UTC)
Expired
Jul 5, 2011, 6:00 PM PDT
In force
48 min
Issued by
NWS San Diego, CA
Area
Storm-based polygon

County San Diego County, CA

The radar

The San Diego radar (KNKX), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:12 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, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 84 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 2011-07-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, San Diego, CA at 00:00Z on 2011-07-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 32 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
1564 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
32 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
73 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

703 
WUUS56 KSGX 060012
SVRSGX
CAC073-060100-
/O.NEW.KSGX.SV.W.0002.110706T0012Z-110706T0100Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN DIEGO CA
512 PM PDT TUE JUL 5 2011

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN DIEGO HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN SAN DIEGO COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST CALIFORNIA...

* UNTIL 600 PM PDT

* AT 505 PM PDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL...AND
  DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 17 
  MILES SOUTHEAST OF MOUNT LAGUNA...OR 5 MILES NORTH OF 
  BOULEVARD...AND MOVING NORTHWEST AT 15 MPH. OTHER SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORMS OVER EXTREME NORTHERN BAJA CALIFORNIA ARE EXPECTED
  TO MOVE NORTHWEST TOWARDS TIERRA DEL SOL AND CAMPO.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
  MOUNT LAGUNA...CAMPO AND PINE VALLEY BY 600 PM PDT...

&&

LAT...LON 3289 11668 3293 11630 3266 11609 3262 11610
      3261 11611 3260 11620 3261 11623 3260 11626
      3258 11650
TIME...MOT...LOC 0010Z 129DEG 13KT 3268 11626

$$

MAXWELL
2 follow-up statements
595 
WWUS56 KSGX 060017
SVSSGX

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN DIEGO CA
517 PM PDT TUE JUL 5 2011

CAC073-060100-
/O.CON.KSGX.SV.W.0002.000000T0000Z-110706T0100Z/
SAN DIEGO CA-
517 PM PDT TUE JUL 5 2011

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 600 PM PDT
FOR SOUTHEASTERN SAN DIEGO COUNTY...

AT 515 PM PDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE
HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS
LOCATED NEAR BOULEVARD...OR 5 MILES NORTH OF BOULEVARD...MOVING 
NORTHWEST AT 15 MPH. THIS STORM WILL IMPACT INTERSTATE 8 BETWEEN 
LIVE OAK SPRINGS AND JACUMBA THROUGH 545 PM AND BETWEEN LIVE OAK 
SPRINGS AND PINE VALLEY BETWEEN 530 PM AND 600 PM.

OTHER STORMS OVER EXTREME NORTHERN BAJA CALIFORNIA WILL MOVE 
NORTHWEST AT 15 MPH TOWARDS TIERRA DEL SOL BY 530 PM AND CAMPO BY 
600 PM. THIS WILL IMPACT HIGHWAY 94 FROM CAMPO EAST TO INTERSTATE 8.

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  LIVE OAK SPRINGS BY 525 PM PDT...
  TIERRA DEL SOL BY 530 PM PDT...
  8 MILES NORTHEAST OF MORENA VILLAGE BY 555 PM PDT...  
  PINE VALLEY AND MOUNT LAGUNA AND CAMPO BY 600 PM PDT...

LAT...LON 3289 11668 3293 11630 3266 11609 3262 11610
      3261 11611 3260 11620 3261 11623 3260 11626
      3258 11650
TIME...MOT...LOC 0014Z 129DEG 13KT 3267 11629

$$

MAXWELL
282 
WWUS56 KSGX 060056
SVSSGX

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN DIEGO CA
556 PM PDT TUE JUL 5 2011

CAC073-060105-
/O.EXP.KSGX.SV.W.0002.000000T0000Z-110706T0100Z/
SAN DIEGO CA-
556 PM PDT TUE JUL 5 2011

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SOUTHEASTERN SAN DIEGO COUNTY
WILL EXPIRE AT 600 PM PDT...

THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED OVER SOUTHEASTERN SAN DIEGO COUNTY...BUT 
THEY HAD WEAKENED SINCE 530 PM. PEA SIZED HAIL AND LOCAL WIND GUSTS 
TO 50 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE AS THE THUNDERSTORMS MOVE INTO POTRERO 
AND PINE VALLEY SHORTLY AFTER 600 PM.

LAT...LON 3289 11668 3293 11630 3266 11609 3262 11610
      3261 11611 3260 11620 3261 11623 3260 11626
      3258 11650
TIME...MOT...LOC 0055Z 129DEG 13KT 3275 11644

$$

MAXWELL

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 6, 12:14 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementSGXSan Diego61 min
Jul 6, 12:52 PM PDTFlash Flood WarningSGXSan Bernardino100 min
Jul 6, 12:55 PM PDTFlash Flood WarningSGXSan Diego50 min
Jul 6, 1:01 PM PDTFlash Flood WatchSGXRiverside, San Bernardino, San Diego7 hr
Jul 6, 1:15 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGXSan Bernardino45 min
Jul 6, 1:31 PM PDTFlash Flood WarningSGXRiverside, San Diego59 min
Jul 6, 1:48 PM PDTFlash Flood WarningSGXSan Bernardino87 min
Jul 6, 2:48 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGXRiverside42 min
Jul 6, 2:56 PM PDTAreal Flood AdvisorySGXRiverside, San Bernardino2 hr
Jul 6, 4:00 PM PDTAreal Flood AdvisorySGXRiverside, San Bernardino90 min
Jul 6, 4:27 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementSGXSan Diego63 min

Nearby

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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.