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Beach Hazards Statement 12, NWS San Francisco Bay Area, CA
NWS San Francisco Bay Area, CA issued this beach hazards statement at Oct 2, 2012, 11:19 AM PDT for Santa Cruz County, California. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 2, 2012, 11:19 AM PDT (18:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 2, 2012, 7:00 PM PDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- NWS San Francisco Bay Area, CA
County Santa Cruz County, CA
The radar
The San Francisco radar (KMUX), 18 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:21 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
Vandenberg AFB, CA (KVBG), launched 12:00Z, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 289 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
- 3558 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -15 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 46 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
943 WHUS46 KMTR 021819 CFWMTR URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA 1119 AM PDT TUE OCT 2 2012 ...A BEACH HAZARD STATEMENT IS IN EFFECT FOR SELECT SANTA CRUZ COUNTY BEACHES THROUGH EARLY TUESDAY EVENING... .A LONG PERIOD SOUTHERLY SWELL WILL CONTINUE TROUGH EARLY TUESDAY EVENING. THIS SWELL WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING STRONG RIP CURRENTS. CAZ529-030200- /O.NEW.KMTR.BH.S.0012.121002T1819Z-121003T0200Z/ NORTHERN MONTEREY BAY- 1119 AM PDT TUE OCT 2 2012 ...BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM PDT THIS EVENING FOR SELECT BEACHES IN SANTA CRUZ COUNTY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AN FRANCISCO BAY AREA HAS ISSUED A BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT FOR NATURAL BRIDGES STATE BEACH...SANTA CRUZ BOARDWALK BEACH AND TWIN LAKES STATE BEACH...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM PDT THIS EVENING. * LOCATION...NATURAL BRIDGES STATE BEACH...SANTA CRUZ BOARDWALK BEACH AND TWIN LAKES STATE BEACH. * TIMING...THROUGH EARLY TUESDAY EVENING * IMPACTS...STRONGER THAN NORMAL RIP CURRENTS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...A BEACH HAZARD STATEMENT FOR RIP CURRENTS MEANS THAT CONDITIONS ARE PRESENT TO SUPPORT A HEIGHTENED RISK OF STRONG RIP CURRENTS. RIP CURRENTS ARE TYPICALLY MORE FREQUENT AND STRONGER IN THE VICINITY OF JETTIES...INLETS...AND PIERS. SWIMMERS CAUGHT IN A RIP CURRENT SHOULD SWIM PARALLEL TO THE COAST TO ESCAPE THE RIP CURRENT BEFORE TRYING TO SWIM FOR SHORE. SWIMMERS SHOULD ALWAYS SWIM NEAR A LIFEGUARD. PLEASE VISIT THE FOLLOWING WEBSITE TO SHARE YOUR THOUGHTS ON THE NEW BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT... HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/SURVEY/NWS-SURVEY.PHP?CODE=CHMBHS. && $$ HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/SANFRANCISCO
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.