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Beach Hazards Statement 14, NWS San Francisco Bay Area, CA
NWS San Francisco Bay Area, CA issued this beach hazards statement at Nov 1, 2014, 1:44 AM PDT for Monterey County, California. It took effect at Nov 1, 2014, 2:00 AM PDT. It was in force for 27 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 1, 2014, 1:44 AM PDT (08:44 UTC)
- In effect from
- Nov 1, 2014, 2:00 AM PDT
- Expired
- Nov 2, 2014, 4:00 AM PST
- In force
- 27 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 08:43 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
Vandenberg AFB, CA (KVBG), launched 00:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 183 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
- 3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 959 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 59 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 83 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 47 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
041 WHUS46 KMTR 010844 CFWMTR URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA 144 AM PDT SAT NOV 1 2014 ...LARGE NORTHWEST SWELL ENTERING MONTEREY BAY WILL BRING STRONG RIP CURRENTS THROUGH EARLY SUNDAY MORNING... CAZ530-020000- /O.NEW.KMTR.BH.S.0014.141101T0900Z-141102T1200Z/ SOUTHERN MONTEREY BAY AND BIG SUR COAST- 144 AM PDT SAT NOV 1 2014 ...BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE TONIGHT... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA HAS ISSUED A BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT FOR STRONG RIP CURRENTS. * LOCATION...THE SOUTHERN MONTEREY BAY COASTLINE FROM ASILOMAR STATE BEACH TO MONTEREY STATE BEACH. * TIMING...EARLY SATURDAY MORNING THROUGH EARLY SUNDAY MORNING. * IMPACTS...STRONG RIP CURRENTS. 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. && $$ DRP HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/SANFRANCISCO
1 follow-up statement
200 WHUS46 KMTR 012354 CFWMTR URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA 454 PM PDT SAT NOV 1 2014 ...LARGE NORTHWEST SWELL ENTERING MONTEREY BAY WILL BRING STRONG RIP CURRENTS THROUGH EARLY SUNDAY MORNING... CAZ530-021200- /O.CON.KMTR.BH.S.0014.000000T0000Z-141102T1200Z/ SOUTHERN MONTEREY BAY AND BIG SUR COAST- 454 PM PDT SAT NOV 1 2014 ...BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE TONIGHT... * LOCATION...THE SOUTHERN MONTEREY BAY COASTLINE FROM ASILOMAR STATE BEACH TO MONTEREY STATE BEACH. * TIMING...EARLY SATURDAY MORNING THROUGH EARLY SUNDAY MORNING. * IMPACTS...STRONG RIP CURRENTS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... PLEASE VISIT THE FOLLOWING WEBSITE TO SHARE YOUR THOUGHTS ON THE NEW BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT... HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/SURVEY/NWS-SURVEY.PHP?CODE=CHMBHS. && $$ HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/SANFRANCISCO
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.