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Beach Hazards Statement 15, NWS San Francisco Bay Area, CA
NWS San Francisco Bay Area, CA issued this beach hazards statement at Oct 15, 2012, 9:40 PM PDT for Monterey County, California. It was in force for 32 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 15, 2012, 9:40 PM PDT (04:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 17, 2012, 5:58 AM PDT
- In force
- 32 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 04:40 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, 4.7 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
- 1895 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -14 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -32 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
636 WHUS46 KMTR 160440 CFWMTR URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA 940 PM PDT MON OCT 15 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 MARINA...MONTEREY AND ASILOMAR STATE BEACHES. CAZ530-170400- /O.NEW.KMTR.BH.S.0015.121016T0440Z-121017T0400Z/ SOUTHERN MONTEREY BAY AND BIG SUR COAST- 940 PM PDT MON OCT 15 2012 ...BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT IN EFFECT THROUGH TUESDAY EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA HAS ISSUED A BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT FOR STRONG RIP CURRENTS AND POSSIBLY LARGE SURF...WHICH IS IN EFFECT THROUGH TUESDAY EVENING. * LOCATION...MARINA...MONTEREY AND ASILOMAR STATE BEACHES. * TIMING...THROUGH TUESDAY EVENING. * IMPACTS...STRONG RIP CURRENTS AND POSSIBLY LARGE SURF AT INDICATED STATE BEACHES. 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. && $$ HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/SANFRANCISCO
2 follow-up statements
047 WHUS46 KMTR 170325 CFWMTR URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA 825 PM PDT TUE OCT 16 2012 ...A BEACH HAZARD STATEMENT IS IN EFFECT FOR SELECT MONTEREY BAY BEACHES... MODERATE PERIOD WESTERLY SWELL WILL PRODUCE STRONGER THAN NORMAL RIP CURRENTS AND POSSIBLY LARGE SURF AT MARINA...MONTEREY AND ASILOMAR STATE BEACHES. CAZ530-180330- /O.EXT.KMTR.BH.S.0015.000000T0000Z-121018T0400Z/ SOUTHERN MONTEREY BAY AND BIG SUR COAST- 825 PM PDT TUE OCT 16 2012 ...BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT NOW IN EFFECT THROUGH WEDNESDAY EVENING... * LOCATION...MARINA...MONTEREY AND ASILOMAR STATE BEACHES. * TIMING...THROUGH WEDNESDAY EVENING. * IMPACTS...STRONG RIP CURRENTS AND POSSIBLY LARGE SURF AT INDICATED STATE BEACHES. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A BEACH HAZARD STATEMENT FOR RIP CURRENTS MEANS THAT CONDITIONS ARE PRESENT TO SUPPORT A HEIGHTENED RISK OF STRONG RIP CURRENTS. RIP CURRENTS ARE TYPICALLY MORE FREQUENT AND STRONGER IN THE VICINITY OF JETTIES...INLETS...AND PIERS. SWIMMERS CAUGHT IN A RIP CURRENT SHOULD SWIM PARALLEL TO THE COAST TO ESCAPE THE RIP CURRENT BEFORE TRYING TO SWIM FOR SHORE. SWIMMERS SHOULD ALWAYS SWIM NEAR A LIFEGUARD. PLEASE VISIT THE FOLLOWING WEBSITE TO SHARE YOUR THOUGHTS ON THE NEW BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT... HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/SURVEY/NWS-SURVEY.PHP?CODE=CHMBHS. && $$ HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/SANFRANCISCO
582 WHUS46 KMTR 171258 CFWMTR URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA 558 AM PDT WED OCT 17 2012 CAZ530-171400- /O.CAN.KMTR.BH.S.0015.000000T0000Z-121018T0400Z/ SOUTHERN MONTEREY BAY AND BIG SUR COAST- 558 AM PDT WED OCT 17 2012 ...BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA HAS CANCELLED THE BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT. SWELL PERIODS HAVE DECREASED THIS MORNING AND WAVES ARE NO LONGER EXPECTED TO PRODUCE HAZARDOUS BEACH CONDITIONS. BEACHGOERS SHOULD CONTINUE TO BE VIGILANT WHEN VISITING AREA BEACHES AND WATCH FOR RIP CURRENTS. $$ HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/SANFRANCISCO
Nearby
Beach Hazards Statements in California, 2012Every beach hazards statement 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.