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Special Weather Statement, NWS San Diego, CA

August 23, 2013

NWS San Diego, CA issued this special weather statement at Aug 23, 2013, 2:03 PM PDT. It was in force for 87 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Aug 23, 2013, 2:03 PM PDT (21:03 UTC)
Expired
Aug 23, 2013, 3:30 PM PDT
In force
87 min
Issued by
NWS San Diego, CA

The radar

The San Diego radar (KNKX), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:05 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, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 82 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, San Diego, CA at 12:00Z on 2013-08-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, San Diego, CA at 12:00Z on 2013-08-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -12 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
2849 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-12 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
12 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

259 
WWUS86 KSGX 232103
SPSSGX

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN DIEGO CA
203 PM PDT FRI AUG 23 2013

CAZ058-062-232230-
SAN DIEGO COUNTY DESERTS-
SAN DIEGO COUNTY MOUNTAINS-
203 PM PDT FRI AUG 23 2013

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTHEASTERN SAN DIEGO COUNTY
UNTIL 330 PM PDT...

AT 154 PM PDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 16 MILES SOUTH OF MOUNT LAGUNA...AND OTHER 
STRONG STORMS SOUTH OF THE INTERNATIONAL BORDER. THUNDERSTORMS ARE 
LIKELY TO INTENSIFY OVER EXTREME SOUTHEAST SAN DIEGO COUNTY BETWEEN 
JACUMBA AND LIVE OAK SPRINGS THROUGH 3 PM PDT.

HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF NICKELS IS EXPECTED...ALONG WITH HEAVY RAIN 
AND FREQUENT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. LOCAL WASHES WILL BE FLOWING IN 
THESE AREAS.

AREAS AFFECTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE...INTERSTATE 8 NEAR THE 
IMPERIAL COUNTY LINE...LIVE OAK SPRINGS...BOULEVARD AND JACUMBA.

LAT...LON 3276 11642 3274 11619 3262 11617 3260 11645
TIME...MOT...LOC 2057Z 208DEG 3KT 3265 11635

$$

JAD

The office that day

Everything else NWS San Diego, CA issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 22, 7:10 PM PDTBlowing Dust AdvisorySGXRiverside, San Diego5 hr
Aug 22, 7:54 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGXSan Diego36 min
Aug 22, 8:05 PM PDTFlash Flood WarningSGXSan Diego85 min
Aug 22, 8:13 PM PDTFlash Flood WarningSGXRiverside3 hr
Aug 23, 2:17 PM PDTAreal Flood AdvisorySGXRiverside118 min
Aug 23, 2:25 PM PDTFlash Flood WatchSGXOrange, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego4 days
Aug 23, 2:41 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGXSan Diego34 min
Aug 23, 2:49 PM PDTFlash Flood WarningSGXSan Diego116 min
Aug 23, 3:07 PM PDTAreal Flood AdvisorySGXRiverside113 min
Aug 23, 3:58 PM PDTFlash Flood WarningSGXRiverside3 hr

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.