Alert archive / California / High Surf Advisories in 2014
High Surf Advisory 3, NWS Los Angeles, CA
NWS Los Angeles, CA issued this high surf advisory at Jan 22, 2014, 7:52 PM PST for Los Angeles County, California. It took effect at Jan 23, 2014, 6:00 PM PST. It was in force for 57 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 22, 2014, 7:52 PM PST (03:52 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 23, 2014, 6:00 PM PST
- Expired
- Jan 26, 2014, 3:06 AM PST
- In force
- 57 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Los Angeles, CA
County Los Angeles County, CA
The radar
The Santa Ana Mts radar (KSOX), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:51 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 00:00Z, 3.9 hours before the alert went out and 184 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
- 3484 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -9 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 49 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 surf advisory went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Los Angeles, CA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this high surf advisory went out at Jan 22, 3:38 PM PST, 4 hours 14 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 22, 3:38 PM PST, 4 hours 14 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jan 22, 6:40 PM PST, 1 hour 12 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOS ANGELES/OXNARD CA 640 PM PST WED JAN 22 2014 CAZ034>041-044>046-051>054-059-087-088-547-548-231400- SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY CENTRAL COAST- SANTA BARBARA COUNTY CENTRAL COAST-SANTA YNEZ VALLEY- SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY INTERIOR VALLEYS-CUYAMA VALLEY- SANTA BARBARA COUNTY SOUTH COAST-VENTURA COUNTY COAST- LOS ANGELES COUNTY COAST INCLUDING DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES- VENTURA COUNTY INTERIOR VALLEYS-VENTURA COUNTY COASTAL VALLEYS- SANTA MONICA MOUNTAINS RECREATIONAL AREA- SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY MOUNTAINS- SANTA BARBARA COUNTY MOUNTAINS-VENTURA COUNTY MOUNTAINS- LOS ANGELES COUNTY MOUNTAINS EXCLUDING THE SANTA MONICA RANGE- ANTELOPE VALLEY-CATALINA ISLAND-SANTA CLARITA VALLEY- LOS ANGELES COUNTY SAN FERNANDO VALLEY- LOS ANGELES COUNTY SAN GABRIEL VALLEY- 640 PM PST WED JAN 22 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHWESTERN CALIFORNIA. WFO LOX PLANS TO DISCONTINUE THIS PRODUCT IN 2014. PLEASE DIRECT ANY COMMENTS TO ERIC BOLDT AT 805-988-6623. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT AREAS OF DENSE FOG WILL BRING VISIBILITIES OF ONE QUARTER MILE OR LESS AT TIMES ACROSS THE LOS ANGELES COUNTY COAST TONIGHT...MAKING FOR DIFFICULT DRIVING CONDITIONS. WHILE SURF IS GRADUALLY SUBSIDING TONIGHT...THERE WILL CONTINUE TO BE A HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK ACROSS THE LOCAL BEACHES. * DENSE FOG ADVISORY.........SEE WWUS76 KLOX - NPWLOX FOR DETAILS * * HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK......SEE FZUS56 KLOX - SRFLOX FOR DETAILS * .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY THERE IS A GOOD CHANCE OF A SIGNIFICANT HIGH SURF EVENT ON WEST FACING BEACHES THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY. THERE WILL BE A HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS ON ALL AREA BEACHES THURSDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. GUSTY NORTHEAST WINDS AND LOW HUMIDITIES MAY BRING CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS TO PORTIONS OF SOUTHWEST CALIFORNIA LATE THURSDAY NIGHT INTO FRIDAY EVENING...POTENTIALLY BRINGING EXTREME FIRE TO THE REGION ONCE AGAIN. GUSTY OFFSHORE WINDS WITH WARM AND DRY CONDITIONS COULD BRING ANOTHER ROUND OF ELEVATED FIRE DANGER TO SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA MONDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. * FIRE WEATHER WATCH.........SEE WWUS86 KLOX - RFWLOX FOR DETAILS * * HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK......SEE FZUS56 KLOX - SRFLOX FOR DETAILS * .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER CONDITIONS ACCORDING TO STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES. GOMBERG
The office that day
Everything else NWS Los Angeles, CA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 22, 6:39 PM PST | Dense Fog Advisory | LOX | 8 hr | |
| Jan 22, 7:52 PM PST | Beach Hazards Statement | LOX | Los Angeles | 5 days |
| Jan 23, 3:09 AM PST | Wind Advisory | LOX | Los Angeles, Santa Barbara | 34 hr |
| Jan 23, 10:08 AM PST | Red Flag Warning | LOX | Los Angeles, Santa Barbara | 29 hr |
Nearby
High Surf Advisories in California, 2014Every high surf advisory in 2014
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.