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Beach Hazards Statement 13, NWS San Francisco Bay Area, CA

October 26, 2014Monterey County, California

NWS San Francisco Bay Area, CA issued this beach hazards statement at Oct 26, 2014, 5:29 PM PDT for Monterey County, California. It was in force for 12 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Oct 26, 2014, 5:29 PM PDT (00:29 UTC)
Expired
Oct 27, 2014, 5:00 AM PDT
In force
12 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 00:29 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

Oakland, CA (KOAK), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Oakland, CA at 00:00Z on 2014-10-27Temperature 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, Oakland, CA at 00:00Z on 2014-10-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -21 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
1855 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-21 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-6 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.

002 
WHUS46 KMTR 270029
CFWMTR

URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA
529 PM PDT SUN OCT 26 2014

...LARGE NORTHWEST SWELL ENTERING THE MONTEREY BAY WILL GRADUALLY
DIMINISH LATER TONIGHT...

CAZ530-271200-
/O.NEW.KMTR.BH.S.0013.141027T0029Z-141027T1200Z/
SOUTHERN MONTEREY BAY AND BIG SUR COAST-
529 PM PDT SUN OCT 26 2014

...BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 AM PDT MONDAY...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA HAS
ISSUED A BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT FOR LARGE SURF AND SNEAKER 
WAVES...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 AM PDT MONDAY.

* LOCATION...COASTLINE FROM MARINA STATE BEACH TO MONASTERY STATE
  BEACH...IN PARTICULAR THE NORTHWEST FACING BEACHES.

* TIMING...BEACH HAZARD IS VALID UNTIL 5 AM PDT MONDAY MORNING.

* IMPACTS...LARGE SURF AND SNEAKER WAVES.

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
611 
WHUS46 KMTR 271125
CFWMTR

URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA
425 AM PDT MON OCT 27 2014


CAZ530-271230-
/O.CON.KMTR.BH.S.0013.000000T0000Z-141027T1200Z/
SOUTHERN MONTEREY BAY AND BIG SUR COAST-
425 AM PDT MON OCT 27 2014

...BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT WILL EXPIRE AT 5 AM PDT EARLY THIS
MORNING...

SWELLS WILL CONTINUE TO DECREASE TODAY. THEREFORE THE BEACH
HAZARDS STATEMENT WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE.

&&

$$


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.