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Beach Hazards Statement 5, NWS San Francisco Bay Area, CA
NWS San Francisco Bay Area, CA issued this beach hazards statement at Sep 7, 2014, 6:41 AM PDT for Monterey County, Santa Cruz County, California. It was in force for 11 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 7, 2014, 6:41 AM PDT (13:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 7, 2014, 6:00 PM PDT
- In force
- 11 hr
- Issued by
- NWS San Francisco Bay Area, CA
Counties Monterey County, CA, Santa Cruz County, CA
The radar
The San Francisco radar (KMUX), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:43 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Oakland, CA (KOAK), launched 12:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 131 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
- 1565 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 60 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 85 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
508 WHUS46 KMTR 071341 CFWMTR URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA 641 AM PDT SUN SEP 7 2014 A LONG PERIOD SOUTHERLY SWELL WILL AFFECT THE WATERS TODAY. SWELLS BETWEEN 4 TO 5 FEET AT A PERIOD OF 17 SECONDS WILL BE THE DOMINANT SWELL ACROSS THE WATERS TODAY. THESE LONG PERIOD SWELLS WILL CREATE AN ENHANCED RISK FOR RIP CURRENTS AND LARGE SHORE BREAK. CAZ529-530-080100- /O.NEW.KMTR.BH.S.0005.140907T1341Z-140908T0100Z/ NORTHERN MONTEREY BAY-SOUTHERN MONTEREY BAY AND BIG SUR COAST- 641 AM PDT SUN SEP 7 2014 ...BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM PDT THIS EVENING... * LOCATION...ALONG THE NORTH CENTRAL COASTLINE PARTICULARLY AFFECTING CARMEL CITY BEACH...TWIN LAKES STATE BEACH AND SANTA CRUZ BOARDWALK BEACH. * TIMING...TODAY UNTIL 6 PM PDT. * IMPACTS...INCREASED RISK FOR RIP CURRENTS AS WELL AS LARGE SHORE BREAK ESPECIALLY AT TWIN LAKES STATE BEACH AND SANTA CRUZ BOARDWALK BEACH. 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
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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.