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Areal Flood Advisory 4, NWS Eureka, CA

August 5, 2012Trinity County, California

NWS Eureka, CA issued this areal flood advisory at Aug 5, 2012, 5:17 PM PDT for Trinity County, California. It was in force for 67 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 5, 2012, 5:17 PM PDT (00:17 UTC)
Expired
Aug 5, 2012, 6:24 PM PDT
In force
67 min
Issued by
NWS Eureka, CA
Area
Storm-based polygon

County Trinity County, CA

The radar

The Eureka (Bunker Hill) radar (KBHX), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:21 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Medford/Jackson, OR (KMFR), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 193 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, Medford/Jackson, OR at 00:00Z on 2012-08-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 265 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Medford/Jackson, OR at 00:00Z on 2012-08-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -9 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
265 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-182 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2963 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-9 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
94 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 areal flood advisory went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Eureka, CA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this areal flood advisory went out at Aug 5, 4:36 PM PDT, 41 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 5, 4:36 PM PDT, 41 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 5, 10:05 AM PDT, 7 hours 12 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EUREKA CA
1005 AM PDT SUN AUG 5 2012

CAZ001-061715-
REDWOOD COAST-
1005 AM PDT SUN AUG 5 2012

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHWEST CALIFORNIA.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT.

ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE AREA THIS MORNING.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY.

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...
SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

CAZ003-004-061715-
NORTH COAST INTERIOR-UPPER TRINITY RIVER-
1005 AM PDT SUN AUG 5 2012

...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM PDT THIS AFTERNOON...

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHWEST CALIFORNIA.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT.

A RED FLAG WARNING IS CURRENTLY IN EFFECT.

ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE
THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY.

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...
SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

CAZ002-076-061715-
MENDOCINO COAST-MENDOCINO INTERIOR-
1005 AM PDT SUN AUG 5 2012

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHWEST CALIFORNIA.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT.

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY.

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...
SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 5, 3:22 PM PDT, 1 hour 55 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EUREKA CA
322 PM PDT SUN AUG 5 2012

CAZ004-052300-
HUMBOLDT CA-TRINITY CA-
322 PM PDT SUN AUG 5 2012

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN EUREKA HAS ISSUED A

SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR...
  WEST CENTRAL TRINITY COUNTY IN NORTHWEST CALIFORNIA
  EAST CENTRAL HUMBOLDT COUNTY IN NORTHWEST CALIFORNIA

UNTIL 400 PM PDT

AT 320 PM PDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR BURNT RANCH...MOVING NORTHWEST AT 10 MPH.

DIME SIZE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS
STORM.

LAT...LON 4098 12367 4107 12337 4076 12326 4068 12347
      4092 12367 4097 12368
TIME...MOT...LOC 2221Z 153DEG 10KT 4080 12342

RPA
Local storm report, Aug 5, 4:25 PM PDT, 52 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 5, 5:02 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementEKATrinity43 min
Aug 5, 5:22 PM PDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEKATrinity62 min
Aug 5, 5:47 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementEKATrinity43 min

Nearby

Areal Flood Advisories in California, 2012Every areal flood advisory in 2012

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.