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Beach Hazards Statement 13, NWS San Francisco Bay Area, CA
NWS San Francisco Bay Area, CA issued this beach hazards statement at Oct 12, 2012, 2:52 AM PDT for Monterey County, Santa Cruz County, California. It was in force for 14 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 12, 2012, 2:52 AM PDT (09:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 12, 2012, 5:00 PM PDT
- In force
- 14 hr
- Issued by
- NWS San Francisco Bay Area, CA
Counties Monterey County, CA, Santa Cruz County, CA
The nearest sounding before it
Oakland, CA (KOAK), launched 00:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 131 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
- 641 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -124 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 158 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
824 WHUS46 KMTR 120952 CFWMTR URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA 252 AM PDT FRI OCT 12 2012 ...A BEACH HAZARD STATEMENT IS IN EFFECT FOR SELECT MONTEREY BAY BEACHES... MODERATE PERIOD WESTERLY SWELL WILL PRODUCE STRONGER THAN NORMAL RIP CURRENTS AND POSSIBLY LARGE SURF AT MANRESA STATE BEACH...AND STRONG RIP CURRENTS AT MARINA STATE BEACH. CAZ529-530-130000- /O.NEW.KMTR.BH.S.0013.121012T0952Z-121013T0000Z/ NORTHERN MONTEREY BAY-SOUTHERN MONTEREY BAY AND BIG SUR COAST- 252 AM PDT FRI OCT 12 2012 ...BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA HAS ISSUED A BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT FOR STRONG RIP CURRENTS AND LARGE SURF... WHICH IS IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON. * LOCATION...MANRESA STATE BEACH AND MARINA STATE BEACH * TIMING...THROUGH FRIDAY AFTERNOON * IMPACTS...STRONG RIP CURRENTS AT BOTH BEACHES AND POSSIBLY LARGE SURF AT MANRESA STATE BEACH 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
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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.