Alert archive / California / Wind Advisories in 2011
Wind Advisory 38, NWS San Diego, CA
NWS San Diego, CA issued this wind advisory at Nov 2, 2011, 1:59 PM PDT for 4 counties in California. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 2, 2011, 1:59 PM PDT (20:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 2, 2011, 6:00 PM PDT
- In force
- 4 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 21:04 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 12:00Z, 9.0 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
- 2020 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -15 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 57 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
735 WWUS76 KSGX 022059 NPWSGX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN DIEGO CA 159 PM PDT WED NOV 2 2011 ...STRONG AND GUSTY WINDS CONTINUE THIS AFTERNOON... CAZ048-057-030100- /O.CAN.KSGX.HW.W.0014.000000T0000Z-111102T2200Z/ /O.NEW.KSGX.WI.Y.0038.111102T2059Z-111103T0100Z/ SAN BERNARDINO AND RIVERSIDE COUNTY VALLEYS-THE INLAND EMPIRE- SANTA ANA MOUNTAINS AND FOOTHILLS- 159 PM PDT WED NOV 2 2011 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM PDT THIS EVENING... ...HIGH WIND WARNING IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN DIEGO HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM PDT THIS EVENING. THE HIGH WIND WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED. * TIMING: STRONGEST WINDS EARLY THIS AFTERNOON...DECREASING BY EVENING. * WINDS: NORTHEAST WINDS 25 TO 35 MPH WITH LOCAL GUSTS TO 55 MPH. STRONGEST WINDS WILL BE BELOW CANYONS AND PASSES OF THE SAN BERNARDINO AND SANTA ANA MOUNTAINS. * VISIBILITY: VISIBILITIES WILL FALL LOCALLY TO BELOW 3 MILES IN BLOWING DUST. * IMPACTS: GUSTY WINDS WILL MAKE TRAVEL HAZARDOUS IN SOME LOCATIONS...ESPECIALLY FOR 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. && $$ CAZ055-022200- /O.CAN.KSGX.HW.W.0014.000000T0000Z-111102T2200Z/ SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY MOUNTAINS- 159 PM PDT WED NOV 2 2011 ...HIGH WIND WARNING IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN DIEGO HAS CANCELLED THE HIGH WIND WARNING. WIND SPEEDS HAVE DECREASED AND ARE EXPECTED TO DECREASE FURTHER OVERNIGHT. $$ CAZ042-050-056-058-022200- /O.CAN.KSGX.WI.Y.0037.000000T0000Z-111102T2200Z/ ORANGE COUNTY COASTAL AREAS-SAN DIEGO COUNTY VALLEYS- RIVERSIDE COUNTY MOUNTAINS-SAN DIEGO COUNTY MOUNTAINS- 159 PM PDT WED NOV 2 2011 ...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN DIEGO HAS CANCELLED THE WIND ADVISORY. WIND SPEEDS HAVE DECREASED AND ARE EXPECTED TO DECREASE FURTHER OVERNIGHT. $$ PG
1 follow-up statement
791 WWUS76 KSGX 030057 NPWSGX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN DIEGO CA 557 PM PDT WED NOV 2 2011 CAZ048-057-030200- /O.EXP.KSGX.WI.Y.0038.000000T0000Z-111103T0100Z/ SAN BERNARDINO AND RIVERSIDE COUNTY VALLEYS-THE INLAND EMPIRE- SANTA ANA MOUNTAINS AND FOOTHILLS- 557 PM PDT WED NOV 2 2011 ...WIND ADVISORY WILL EXPIRE AT 6 PM PDT THIS EVENING... THE WIND ADVISORY WILL EXPIRE AT 6 PM PDT THIS EVENING. WINDS HAVE DROPPED BELOW ADVISORY CRITERIA AND WILL CONTINUE TO WEAKEN THIS EVENING. LOCAL GUSTS AROUND 30 MPH ARE STILL POSSIBLE NEAR THE BANNING PASS THROUGH ABOUT 9 PM. $$ SS
The office that day
Everything else NWS San Diego, CA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 2, 1:57 PM PDT | Red Flag Warning | SGX | Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego | 6 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.