Alert archive / California / High Wind Watches in 2013
High Wind Watch 10, NWS San Diego, CA
NWS San Diego, CA issued this high wind watch at Oct 2, 2013, 1:41 PM PDT for 4 counties in California. It took effect at Oct 4, 2013, 2:00 AM PDT. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 2, 2013, 1:41 PM PDT (20:41 UTC)
- In effect from
- Oct 4, 2013, 2:00 AM PDT
- Expired
- Oct 3, 2013, 1:41 PM PDT
- 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 20:40 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, 8.7 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
- 1050 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 22 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 61 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this high wind 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 high wind watch went out at Oct 2, 10:00 AM PDT, 3 hours 41 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 2, 10:00 AM PDT, 3 hours 41 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Oct 2, 5:45 AM PDT, 7 hours 56 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN DIEGO CA 545 AM PDT WED OCT 2 2013 CAZ043-062-031200- SAN DIEGO COUNTY COASTAL AREAS-SAN DIEGO COUNTY DESERTS- 545 AM PDT WED OCT 2 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF EXTREME SOUTHWESTERN CALIFORNIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY FOR FRIDAY THROUGH MONDAY MORNING...EAST WINDS GUSTING OVER 25 MPH AND VERY LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY WILL CREATE AN ELEVATED FIRE DANGER. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED TODAY. CAZ042-048-055>057-061-031200- ORANGE COUNTY COASTAL AREAS- SAN BERNARDINO AND RIVERSIDE COUNTY VALLEYS-THE INLAND EMPIRE- SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY MOUNTAINS- RIVERSIDE COUNTY MOUNTAINS- SANTA ANA MOUNTAINS AND FOOTHILLS- COACHELLA VALLEY- 545 AM PDT WED OCT 2 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF EXTREME SOUTHWESTERN CALIFORNIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY FROM FRIDAY MORNING THROUGH SUNDAY EVENING A FIRE WEATHER WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR A MODERATE SANTA ANA WIND EVENT WITH NORTHEAST TO EAST WINDS 25 TO 40 MPH GUSTING BETWEEN 50 AND 65 MPH IN WIND PRONE LOCATIONS....AND VERY LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...MOSTLY 5 TO 15 PERCENT. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED TODAY. CAZ050-058-031200- SAN DIEGO COUNTY VALLEYS-SAN DIEGO COUNTY MOUNTAINS- 545 AM PDT WED OCT 2 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF EXTREME SOUTHWESTERN CALIFORNIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY FROM FRIDAY MORNING THROUGH 2 PM MONDAY A FIRE WEATHER WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR A MODERATE SANTA ANA WIND EVENT WITH NORTHEAST TO EAST WINDS 25 TO 40 MPH GUSTING TO 55 MPH IN WIND PRONE LOCATIONS....AND VERY LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...MOSTLY 5 TO 15 PERCENT. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED TODAY. CAZ060-031200- APPLE AND LUCERNE VALLEYS- 545 AM PDT WED OCT 2 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF EXTREME SOUTHWESTERN CALIFORNIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED TODAY. MOEDE/BALFOUR
The office that day
Everything else NWS San Diego, CA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 2, 2:05 PM PDT | Red Flag Warning | SGX | Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego | 4 days |
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.