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Beach Hazards Statement 14, NWS San Francisco Bay Area, CA
NWS San Francisco Bay Area, CA issued this beach hazards statement at Oct 12, 2012, 6:05 PM PDT for Monterey County, California. It was in force for 14 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 12, 2012, 6:05 PM PDT (01:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 13, 2012, 8:33 AM PDT
- In force
- 14 hr
- Issued by
- NWS San Francisco Bay Area, CA
County Monterey County, CA
The radar
The San Francisco radar (KMUX), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:06 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
Oakland, CA (KOAK), launched 00:00Z, 1.1 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
- 2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -15 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 982 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -18 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 14 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
548 WHUS46 KMTR 130105 CFWMTR URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA 605 PM 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. CAZ530-140100- /O.NEW.KMTR.BH.S.0014.121013T0105Z-121014T0100Z/ SOUTHERN MONTEREY BAY AND BIG SUR COAST- 605 PM PDT FRI OCT 12 2012 ...BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT IN EFFECT THROUGH SATURDAY 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 SATURDAY AFTERNOON. * LOCATION...MANRESA STATE BEACH AND MARINA STATE BEACH * TIMING...THROUGH SATURDAY 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. && $$ HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/SANFRANCISCO
1 follow-up statement
986 WHUS46 KMTR 131533 CFWMTR URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA 833 AM PDT SAT OCT 13 2012 CAZ530-131645- /O.CAN.KMTR.BH.S.0014.000000T0000Z-121014T0100Z/ SOUTHERN MONTEREY BAY AND BIG SUR COAST- 833 AM PDT SAT OCT 13 2012 ...BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA HAS CANCELLED THE BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT. SEA HEIGHTS AND SWELL PERIODS ARE NO LONGER EXPECTED TO PRODUCE WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS BEACH CONDITIONS. THE LATEST OBSERVATIONS AT BUOY 42 SHOW HEIGHTS OF 5 FEET WITH 12 SECOND PERIODS WHICH IN GENERAL IS NOT SUFFICIENT TO SUPPORT STRONG RIPS AND LARGE SURF FOR THE BEACHES OF SOUTHERN MONTEREY BAY. NONETHELESS BEACH GOERS SHOULD BE VIGILANT WHEN VISITING AREA BEACHES THIS WEEKEND. $$ HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/SANFRANCISCO
The office that day
Everything else NWS San Francisco Bay Area, CA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 13, 2:26 PM PDT | Small Craft Advisory | MTR | 5 days |
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.