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High Surf Advisory 7, NWS Los Angeles, CA

February 13, 2012Los Angeles County, California

NWS Los Angeles, CA issued this high surf advisory at Feb 13, 2012, 1:48 AM PST for Los Angeles County, California. It took effect at Feb 13, 2012, 2:00 PM PST. It was in force for 30 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Feb 13, 2012, 1:48 AM PST (09:48 UTC)
In effect from
Feb 13, 2012, 2:00 PM PST
Expired
Feb 14, 2012, 8:00 PM PST
In force
30 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 09:50 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

San Diego, CA (KNKX), launched 00:00Z, 9.8 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, San Diego, CA at 00:00Z on 2012-02-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 21 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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, San Diego, CA at 00:00Z on 2012-02-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -57 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
21 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
746 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-57 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-11 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 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 Feb 12, 9:50 PM PST, 3 hours 58 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 12, 9:50 PM PST, 3 hours 58 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 13, 1:14 PM PSTGale WarningLOX20 hr
Feb 13, 1:14 PM PSTSmall Craft AdvisoryLOX3 hr

Nearby

High Surf Advisories in California, 2012Every high surf 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.