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Beach Hazards Statement 5, NWS San Francisco Bay Area, CA
NWS San Francisco Bay Area, CA issued this beach hazards statement at Feb 26, 2013, 3:04 AM PST for Monterey County, California. It took effect at Feb 26, 2013, 4:00 AM PST. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 26, 2013, 3:04 AM PST (11:04 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 26, 2013, 4:00 AM PST
- Expired
- Feb 26, 2013, 9:33 AM PST
- In force
- 6 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 11:05 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 00:00Z, 11.1 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
- 1953 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -10 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 13 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
794 WHUS46 KMTR 261104 CFWMTR URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA 304 AM PST TUE FEB 26 2013 ...BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT IS IN EFFECT FOR STRONG RIP CURRENTS AT MONTEREY AND ASILOMAR STATE BEACHES TODAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY MORNING... .LONGER PERIOD NORTHWESTERLY SWELL WITH PERIODS NEAR 18 SECONDS WILL IMPACT THE COAST TODAY...TONIGHT AND PART OF WEDNESDAY MORNING BEFORE DECREASING. CAZ530-271700- /O.NEW.KMTR.BH.S.0005.130226T1200Z-130227T1700Z/ SOUTHERN MONTEREY BAY AND BIG SUR COAST- 304 AM PST TUE FEB 26 2013 ...BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT IN EFFECT THROUGH WEDNESDAY MORNING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT FOR STRONG RIP CURRENTS WHICH IS IN EFFECT THROUGH WEDNESDAY MORNING. * LOCATION...NORTH CENTRAL COAST LOCATIONS MONTEREY AND ASILOMAR STATE BEACHES. * TIMING...LONGER PERIOD NORTHWESTERLY SWELL WILL IMPACT THE AREA TODAY THROUGH EARLY WEDNESDAY MORNING BEFORE SUBSIDING. * IMPACTS...LONGER PERIOD NORTHWESTERLY SWELL GREATLY RAISES THE RISK OF STRONG RIP CURRENTS AT THESE LOCATIONS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... 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. && $$ HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/SANFRANCISCO
1 follow-up statement
251 WHUS46 KMTR 261733 CFWMTR URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA 933 AM PST TUE FEB 26 2013 CAZ530-261845- /O.CAN.KMTR.BH.S.0005.000000T0000Z-130227T1700Z/ SOUTHERN MONTEREY BAY AND BIG SUR COAST- 933 AM PST TUE FEB 26 2013 ...BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA HAS CANCELLED THE BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT. $$ HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/SANFRANCISCO
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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.