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High Surf Advisory 12, NWS Los Angeles, CA
NWS Los Angeles, CA issued this high surf advisory at Mar 5, 2012, 2:17 PM PST for Los Angeles County, California. It took effect at Mar 6, 2012, 10:00 AM PST. It was in force for 16 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 5, 2012, 2:17 PM PST (22:17 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 6, 2012, 10:00 AM PST
- Expired
- Mar 7, 2012, 1:32 AM PST
- In force
- 16 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Los Angeles, CA
County Los Angeles County, CA
The radar
The Santa Ana Mts radar (KSOX), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:17 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, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 184 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
- 4708 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 30 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 40 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Los Angeles, CA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this high surf advisory went out at Mar 5, 2:15 PM PST, 2 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 5, 2:15 PM PST, 2 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 5, 6:00 AM PST, 8 hours 17 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOS ANGELES/OXNARD CA 600 AM PST MON MAR 5 2012 CAZ034>041-044>046-051>054-059-087-088-547-548-061400- SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY CENTRAL COAST- SANTA BARBARA COUNTY CENTRAL COAST-SANTA YNEZ VALLEY- SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY INTERIOR VALLEYS-CUYAMA VALLEY- SANTA BARBARA COUNTY SOUTH COAST-VENTURA COUNTY COAST- LOS ANGELES COUNTY COAST INCLUDING DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES- VENTURA COUNTY INTERIOR VALLEYS-VENTURA COUNTY COASTAL VALLEYS- SANTA MONICA MOUNTAINS RECREATIONAL AREA- SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY MOUNTAINS- SANTA BARBARA COUNTY MOUNTAINS-VENTURA COUNTY MOUNTAINS- LOS ANGELES COUNTY MOUNTAINS EXCLUDING THE SANTA MONICA RANGE- ANTELOPE VALLEY-CATALINA ISLAND-SANTA CLARITA VALLEY- LOS ANGELES COUNTY SAN FERNANDO VALLEY- LOS ANGELES COUNTY SAN GABRIEL VALLEY- 600 AM PST MON MAR 5 2012 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHWESTERN CALIFORNIA. .DAY ONE... TODAY AND TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED TODAY. * SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT..SEE WWUS86 KLOX - SPSLOX FOR DETAILS * VERY GUSTY WEST TO NORTHWEST WINDS WILL DEVELOP ACROSS THE LOS ANGELES AND VENTURA COUNTY MOUNTAINS AS WELL AS THE ANTELOPE VALLEY. STRONGEST WIND GUSTS WILL BE BETWEEN 55 TO 65 MPH TUESDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH THE OVERNIGHT HOURS. THERE WILL ALSO BE STRONG GALE ACROSS ALL COASTAL WATERS DEVELOPING TUESDAY MORNING AND CONTINUING THROUGH LATE TUESDAY NIGHT INTO EARLY WEDNESDAY MORNING. STRONGEST WIND GUSTS WILL BE 35 TO 45 KNOTS...WITH LOCAL 50 KNOTS FOR THE NORTHWESTERN PORTION OF THE OUTER WATERS. THERE WILL BE VERY COLD TEMPERATURES TO ACCOMPANY THE HIGH WINDS. SEE THE SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT FOR DETAILS. <TYPE YOUR DAY 2-7 TEXT HERE> * HIGH WIND WARNING..........SEE WWUS76 KLOX - NPWLOX FOR DETAILS * * GALE WARNING...............SEE WHUS76 KLOX - MWWLOX FOR DETAILS * * SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT..SEE WWUS86 KLOX - SPSLOX FOR DETAILS * .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER CONDITIONS ACCORDING TO STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES. KAPLAN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Los Angeles, CA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 5, 2:56 AM PST | Gale Warning | LOX | 48 hr | |
| Mar 5, 2:56 AM PST | Small Craft Advisory | LOX | 24 hr | |
| Mar 5, 3:51 AM PST | High Wind Warning | LOX | 47 hr | |
| Mar 5, 1:53 PM PST | Wind Advisory | LOX | Los Angeles, Santa Barbara | 37 hr |
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.