Alert archive / California / Wind Advisories in 2012
Wind Advisory 39, NWS San Diego, CA
NWS San Diego, CA issued this wind advisory at Jun 8, 2012, 1:27 PM PDT for Riverside County, California. It took effect at Jun 8, 2012, 5:00 PM PDT. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 8, 2012, 1:27 PM PDT (20:27 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jun 8, 2012, 5:00 PM PDT
- Expired
- Jun 8, 2012, 8:12 PM PDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS San Diego, CA
County Riverside County, CA
The radar
The San Diego radar (KNKX), 134 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:27 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
San Diego, CA (KNKX), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 154 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
- 1674 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -11 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 26 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
352 WWUS76 KSGX 082027 NPWSGX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN DIEGO CA 127 PM PDT FRI JUN 8 2012 ...STRONGER WEST WIND GUSTS THROUGH AND EAST OF BANNING PASS LATE THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH LATE TONIGHT... .INCREASING WEST WINDS DUE TO UPPER TROUGH MOVING BY TO THE NORTH. WINDS EXPECTED TO TEMPORARILY DIMINISH SATURDAY MORNING THEN INCREASE AGAIN SATURDAY AFTERNOON AND NIGHT. WINDS TURNING NORTHERLY AND DIMINISHING SUNDAY. CAZ061-090430- /O.NEW.KSGX.WI.Y.0039.120609T0000Z-120609T1000Z/ COACHELLA VALLEY- 127 PM PDT FRI JUN 8 2012 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 5 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 3 AM PDT SATURDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN DIEGO HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 5 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 3 AM PDT SATURDAY. * WINDS...WEST 20 TO 30 MPH NEAR BANNING PASS AND NORTH OF INTERSTATE 10 WITH GUSTS TO 50 MPH. * TIMING...LATE THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH EARLY SATURDAY MORNING. * LOCATION...THE BANNING PASS TO THE INDIO HILLS AREA...AND BETWEEN THE INTERSTATE 10 CORRIDOR NORTH AND EAST TO THE LITTLE SAN BERNARDINO MOUNTAINS. * VISIBILITY...AREAS OF BLOWING SAND WITH VISIBILITY LESS THAN A MILE. * IMPACTS...MOTORISTS OPERATING HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES WILL ENCOUNTER DIFFICULT DRIVING CONDITIONS. * OUTLOOK...WINDS WILL TEMPORARILY DIMINISH SATURDAY MORNING...THEN INCREASE AGAIN SATURDAY AFTERNOON. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT WINDS OF 35 MPH ARE EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. && $$ BALFOUR
1 follow-up statement
593 WWUS76 KSGX 090312 NPWSGX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN DIEGO CA 812 PM PDT FRI JUN 8 2012 ...WINDS ARE WEAKENING THIS EVENING... CAZ061-090415- /O.CAN.KSGX.WI.Y.0039.000000T0000Z-120609T1000Z/ COACHELLA VALLEY- 812 PM PDT FRI JUN 8 2012 ...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN DIEGO HAS CANCELLED THE WIND ADVISORY. WINDS IN THE NORTHERN COACHELLA VALLEY HAVE DECREASED...BUT OCCASIONAL GUSTS OF 30 TO 35 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE FOR A FEW MORE HOURS TONIGHT. $$
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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.