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Fire Weather Watch 2, NWS San Diego, CA
NWS San Diego, CA issued this fire weather watch at Jan 26, 2012, 1:18 PM PST for 4 counties in California. It took effect at Jan 27, 2012, 10:00 PM PST. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 26, 2012, 1:18 PM PST (21:18 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 27, 2012, 10:00 PM PST
- Expired
- Jan 27, 2012, 10:36 AM PST
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS San Diego, CA
Counties Orange County, CA, Riverside County, CA, San Bernardino County, CA, San Diego County, CA
The radar
The Santa Ana Mts radar (KSOX), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:24 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
San Diego, CA (KNKX), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 124 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
- 3291 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 15 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 79 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this fire weather watch went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS San Diego, CA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this fire weather watch went out at Jan 26, 10:09 AM PST, 3 hours 9 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 26, 10:09 AM PST, 3 hours 9 minutes before
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Everything else NWS San Diego, CA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 25, 8:56 PM PST | High Wind Watch | SGX | Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego | 29 hr |
| Jan 26, 8:05 AM PST | Small Craft Advisory for Hazardous Seas | SGX | 29 hr | |
| Jan 26, 8:13 AM PST | High Surf Advisory | SGX | San Diego | 35 hr |
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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.