Alert archive / California / Wind Advisories in 2011
Wind Advisory 17, NWS San Diego, CA
NWS San Diego, CA issued this wind advisory at Apr 4, 2011, 3:04 AM PDT for 4 counties in California. It took effect at Apr 4, 2011, 6:00 AM PDT. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 4, 2011, 3:04 AM PDT (10:04 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 4, 2011, 6:00 AM PDT
- Expired
- Apr 4, 2011, 12:56 PM PDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- NWS San Diego, CA
Counties Orange County, CA, Riverside County, CA, San Bernardino County, CA, San Diego County, CA
The radar
The Santa Ana Mts radar (KSOX), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:02 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, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 124 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
- 0 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -38 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 8 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
852 WWUS76 KSGX 041004 NPWSGX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN DIEGO CA 304 AM PDT MON APR 4 2011 ...GUSTY OFFSHORE WINDS TODAY... .SURFACE HIGH PRESSURE OVER THE GREAT BASIN WILL BRING A BRIEF PERIOD OF MODERATE OFFSHORE WINDS THROUGH AND BELOW PASSES AND CANYONS FOR THIS MORNING THROUGH EARLY AFTERNOON. CAZ042-048-057-042100- /O.NEW.KSGX.WI.Y.0017.110404T1300Z-110404T2100Z/ ORANGE COUNTY COASTAL AREAS- SAN BERNARDINO AND RIVERSIDE COUNTY VALLEYS-THE INLAND EMPIRE- SANTA ANA MOUNTAINS AND FOOTHILLS- 304 AM PDT MON APR 4 2011 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 6 AM THIS MORNING TO 2 PM PDT THIS AFTERNOON... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN DIEGO HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 6 AM THIS MORNING TO 2 PM PDT THIS AFTERNOON. * TIMING: THIS MORNING THROUGH EARLY THIS AFTERNOON. * WINDS: AREAS OF NORTHEAST WINDS 20 TO 30 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 50 MPH BELOW PASSES AND CANYONS. * IMPACTS: THE WINDS WILL MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR MOTORISTS WITH HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. WATCH FOR BROKEN TREE LIMBS AND DOWNED POWER LINES. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT WINDS OF 35 MPH ARE EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. WATCH FOR BROKEN TREE LIMBS AND DOWNED POWER LINES. && $$ CAZ050-042100- /O.NEW.KSGX.WI.Y.0017.110404T1300Z-110404T2100Z/ SAN DIEGO COUNTY VALLEYS- 304 AM PDT MON APR 4 2011 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 6 AM THIS MORNING TO 2 PM PDT THIS AFTERNOON... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN DIEGO HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 6 AM THIS MORNING TO 2 PM PDT THIS AFTERNOON. * TIMING: THIS MORNING THROUGH EARLY THIS AFTERNOON. * WINDS: AREAS OF EAST WINDS 20 TO 30 MPH NEAR THE FOOTHILLS WITH GUSTS TO 45 MPH. * IMPACTS: THE WINDS WILL MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR MOTORISTS WITH HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. WATCH FOR BROKEN TREE LIMBS AND DOWNED POWER LINES. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT WINDS OF 35 MPH ARE EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. WATCH FOR BROKEN TREE LIMBS AND DOWNED POWER LINES. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT WINDS OF 35 MPH ARE EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. && $$ CURRENT WIND GUST REPORTS ON THE WEB: HTTP://WWW.WRH.NOAA.GOV/SGX/GMAP/INDEX.PHP MAX DAILY WIND GUST REPORTS ON THE WEB: HTTP://WWW.WRH.NOAA.GOV/SGX/KML/WIND.PHP?WFO=SGX MARTIN
1 follow-up statement
588 WWUS76 KSGX 041956 NPWSGX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN DIEGO CA 1256 PM PDT MON APR 4 2011 CAZ042-048-050-057-042100- /O.CAN.KSGX.WI.Y.0017.000000T0000Z-110404T2100Z/ ORANGE COUNTY COASTAL AREAS- SAN BERNARDINO AND RIVERSIDE COUNTY VALLEYS-THE INLAND EMPIRE- SAN DIEGO COUNTY VALLEYS-SANTA ANA MOUNTAINS AND FOOTHILLS- 1256 PM PDT MON APR 4 2011 ...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN DIEGO HAS CANCELLED THE WIND ADVISORY. WINDS HAVE DECREASED BELOW ADVISORY CRITERIA. LOCALLY GUSTY WINDS THROUGH SOME PASSES AND CANYONS WILL CONTINUE TO DECREASE INTO THIS EVENING. $$ JAD
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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.