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Beach Hazards Statement 16, NWS San Francisco Bay Area, CA
NWS San Francisco Bay Area, CA issued this beach hazards statement at Oct 29, 2012, 8:49 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 29, 2012, 8:49 AM PDT (15:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 29, 2012, 11:00 PM PDT
- In force
- 14 hr
- Issued by
- NWS San Francisco Bay Area, CA
Counties Monterey County, CA, Santa Cruz County, CA
The radar
The San Francisco radar (KMUX), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:47 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Oakland, CA (KOAK), launched 12:00Z, 3.8 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
- 1538 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 24 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 48 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
520 WHUS46 KMTR 291549 CFWMTR URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA 849 AM PDT MON OCT 29 2012 ...A HEIGHTENED RISK OF STRONG RIP CURRENTS WILL BE POSSIBLE TODAY ON WEST FACING BEACHES... CAZ529-300600- /O.NEW.KMTR.BH.S.0016.121029T1549Z-121030T0600Z/ NORTHERN MONTEREY BAY- 849 AM PDT MON OCT 29 2012 ...BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA HAS ISSUED A BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT FOR A HEIGHTENED RISK OF STRONG RIP CURRENTS... WHICH IS IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING. * LOCATION...WEST FACING BEACHES ESPECIALLY MANRESA STATE BEACH. * TIMING...THROUGH THIS EVENING. * IMPACTS...HEIGHTENED RISK OF STRONG 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. && $$ CAZ530-300600- /O.NEW.KMTR.BH.S.0016.121029T1549Z-121030T0600Z/ SOUTHERN MONTEREY BAY AND BIG SUR COAST- 849 AM PDT MON OCT 29 2012 ...BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA HAS ISSUED A BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT FOR A HEIGHTENED RISK OF STRONG RIP CURRENTS... WHICH IS IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING. * LOCATION...WEST FACING BEACHES ESPECIALLY MARINA STATE BEACH. * TIMING...THROUGH THIS EVENING. * IMPACTS...HEIGHTENED RISK OF STRONG RIP CURRENTS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...A BEACH HAZARD STATEMENT FOR RIP CURRENTS MEANS THAT CONDITIONS ARE PRESENT TO SUPPORT A HEIGHTENED RISK OF STRONG RIP CURRENTS. RIP CURRENTS ARE TYPICALLY MORE FREQUENT AND STRONGER IN THE VICINITY OF JETTIES...INLETS...AND PIERS. SWIMMERS CAUGHT IN A RIP CURRENT SHOULD SWIM PARALLEL TO THE COAST TO ESCAPE THE RIP CURRENT BEFORE TRYING TO SWIM FOR SHORE. SWIMMERS SHOULD ALWAYS SWIM NEAR A LIFEGUARD. PLEASE VISIT THE FOLLOWING WEBSITE TO SHARE YOUR THOUGHTS ON THE NEW BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT... HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/SURVEY/NWS-SURVEY.PHP?CODE=CHMBHS. && $$ HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/SANFRANCISCO
1 follow-up statement
944 WHUS46 KMTR 300551 CFWMTR URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA 1051 PM PDT MON OCT 29 2012 CAZ529-300700- /O.EXP.KMTR.BH.S.0016.000000T0000Z-121030T0600Z/ NORTHERN MONTEREY BAY- 1051 PM PDT MON OCT 29 2012 ...BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT WILL EXPIRE AT 11 PM PDT THIS EVENING... MODEL FORECASTS INDICATE SEA SWELLS WILL DECREASE OVERNIGHT AND TUESDAY REDUCING THE POSSIBILITY OF RIP CURRENTS. $$ CAZ530-300700- /O.EXP.KMTR.BH.S.0016.000000T0000Z-121030T0600Z/ SOUTHERN MONTEREY BAY AND BIG SUR COAST- 1051 PM PDT MON OCT 29 2012 ...BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT WILL EXPIRE AT 11 PM PDT THIS EVENING... MODEL FORECASTS INDICATE SEA SWELLS WILL DECREASE OVERNIGHT AND TUESDAY REDUCING THE POSSIBILITY OF RIP CURRENTS. $$ 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 29, 3:16 AM PDT | Dense Fog Advisory | MTR | Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Monterey, Napa, San Benito and 5 more | 5 hr |
| Oct 29, 3:34 AM PDT | Marine Dense Fog Advisory | MTR | 4 hr | |
| Oct 29, 9:49 AM PDT | Marine Dense Fog Advisory | MTR | 5 hr | |
| Oct 29, 1:20 PM PDT | Dense Fog Advisory | MTR | Marin, Monterey, Napa, San Benito, City and County of San Francisco, San Mateo and 2 more | 20 hr |
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.