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Beach Hazards Statement 8, NWS San Francisco Bay Area, CA
NWS San Francisco Bay Area, CA issued this beach hazards statement at Oct 3, 2014, 8:11 AM PDT for Marin County, Santa Cruz County, Sonoma County, California. It was in force for 12 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 3, 2014, 8:11 AM PDT (15:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 3, 2014, 8:00 PM PDT
- In force
- 12 hr
- Issued by
- NWS San Francisco Bay Area, CA
Counties Marin County, CA, Santa Cruz County, CA, Sonoma County, CA
The radar
The San Francisco radar (KMUX), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:16 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 12:00Z, 3.2 hours before the alert went out and 35 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
- 2956 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 4 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -30 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
827 WHUS46 KMTR 031511 CFWMTR URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA 811 AM PDT FRI OCT 3 2014 ...INCREASED RISK OF RIP CURRENTS AT SOUTHERLY FACING BEACHES TODAY... A MODERATE SIZED LONG PERIOD SOUTHWEST SWELL WILL PRODUCE STRONG RIP CURRENTS ALONG SOUTH TO SOUTHWEST FACING BEACHES THROUGH TONIGHT. CAZ505-529-040300- /O.NEW.KMTR.BH.S.0008.141003T1511Z-141004T0300Z/ COASTAL NORTH BAY...INCLUDING POINT REYES NATIONAL SEASHORE- NORTHERN MONTEREY BAY- 811 AM PDT FRI OCT 3 2014 ...BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA HAS ISSUED A BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT FOR RIP CURRENTS... WHICH IS IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING. * LOCATION...SOUTH TO SOUTHWEST FACING BEACHES IN MARIN AND SANTA CRUZ COUNTIES...INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO...STINSON BEACH...SANTA CRUZ BOARDWALK BEACH....AND TWIN LAKES BEACH. * TIMING...THROUGH AT LEAST FRIDAY EVENING. * IMPACTS...INCREASED RISK OF DANGEROUS RIP CURRENTS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...A BEACH HAZARD STATEMENT FOR RIP CURRENTS MEANS THAT CONDITIONS ARE PRESENT TO SUPPORT A HEIGHTENED RISK OF STRONG RIP CURRENTS. RIP CURRENTS ARE TYPICALLY MORE FREQUENT AND STRONGER IN THE VICINITY OF JETTIES...INLETS...AND PIERS. SWIMMERS CAUGHT IN A RIP CURRENT SHOULD SWIM PARALLEL TO THE COAST TO ESCAPE THE RIP CURRENT BEFORE TRYING TO SWIM FOR SHORE. SWIMMERS SHOULD ALWAYS SWIM NEAR A LIFEGUARD. 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
The office that day
Everything else NWS San Francisco Bay Area, CA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 3, 10:23 AM PDT | Heat Advisory | MTR | Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Monterey, Napa, San Benito and 4 more | 35 hr |
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.