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Beach Hazards Statement 17, NWS San Francisco Bay Area, CA
NWS San Francisco Bay Area, CA issued this beach hazards statement at Nov 5, 2012, 9:40 AM PST for Monterey County, California. It was in force for 30 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 5, 2012, 9:40 AM PST (17:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 6, 2012, 4:00 PM PST
- In force
- 30 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 17:45 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 183 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
- 3599 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 2 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -56 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -95 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
894 WHUS46 KMTR 051740 CFWMTR URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA 940 AM PST MON NOV 5 2012 ...A HEIGHTENED RISK OF STRONG RIP CURRENTS ALONG NORTHWEST FACING BEACHES... ..MODERATE PERIOD NORTHWEST SWELL WILL PRODUCE STRONGER THAN NORMAL RIP CURRENTS AT NORTHWEST FACING BEACHES...INCLUDING MONTEREY STATE BEACH AND ASILOMAR STATE BEACH. CAZ530-070000- /O.CAN.KMTR.CF.W.0001.000000T0000Z-121107T0000Z/ /O.NEW.KMTR.BH.S.0017.121105T1740Z-121107T0000Z/ SOUTHERN MONTEREY BAY AND BIG SUR COAST- 940 AM PST MON NOV 5 2012 ...BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT IN EFFECT THROUGH TUESDAY AFTERNOON... ...COASTAL FLOOD WARNING IS CANCELLED... THIS HAZARD REPLACES THE PREVIOUS COASTAL FLOOD WARNING WHICH WAS ISSUED IN ERROR. THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA HAS ISSUED A BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT FOR STRONG RIP CURRENTS... WHICH IS IN EFFECT THROUGH TUESDAY AFTERNOON. THE COASTAL FLOOD WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED. * LOCATION...MONTEREY AND ASILOMAR STATE BEACHES. * TIMING...THROUGH TUESDAY AFTERNOON. * IMPACTS...STRONG RIP CURRENTS AT BOTH 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
The office that day
Everything else NWS San Francisco Bay Area, CA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 5, 9:30 AM PST | Coastal Flood Warning | MTR | Monterey | 10 min |
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.