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Winter Storm Warning 6, NWS San Diego, CA

December 6, 2013Riverside County, San Bernardino County, San Diego County, California

NWS San Diego, CA issued this winter storm warning at Dec 6, 2013, 1:09 PM PST for Riverside County, San Bernardino County, San Diego County, California. It took effect at Dec 7, 2013, 10:00 AM PST. It was in force for 11 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Dec 6, 2013, 1:09 PM PST (21:09 UTC)
In effect from
Dec 7, 2013, 10:00 AM PST
Expired
Dec 7, 2013, 8:57 PM PST
In force
11 hr
Issued by
NWS San Diego, CA

Counties Riverside County, CA, San Bernardino County, CA, San Diego County, CA

The radar

The Santa Ana Mts radar (KSOX), 122 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:22 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, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 145 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 2013-12-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, San Diego, CA at 12:00Z on 2013-12-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 71 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
1 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-35 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1112 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
71 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
99 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this winter storm warning 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 winter storm warning went out at Dec 6, 9:23 AM PST, 3 hours 46 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 6, 9:23 AM PST, 3 hours 46 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Dec 5, 5:24 PM PSTFrost AdvisorySGXRiverside, San Bernardino, San Diego16 hr
Dec 6, 2:16 AM PSTSmall Craft AdvisorySGX57 hr
Dec 6, 9:08 AM PSTHigh Wind WarningSGXRiverside, San Bernardino, San Diego40 hr

Nearby

Winter Storm Warnings in California, 2013Every winter storm warning in 2013

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.