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Beach Hazards Statement 11, NWS San Diego, CA
NWS San Diego, CA issued this beach hazards statement at Aug 2, 2014, 10:47 AM PDT for San Diego County, California. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 2, 2014, 10:47 AM PDT (17:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 2, 2014, 1:00 PM PDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS San Diego, CA
County San Diego County, CA
The radar
The San Diego radar (KNKX), 28 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:46 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
San Diego, CA (KNKX), launched 12:00Z, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 47 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
- 1723 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 8 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 20 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
637 WHUS46 KSGX 021747 CFWSGX COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN DIEGO CA 1047 AM PDT SAT AUG 2 2014 ...BEACH HAZARD STATEMENT FOR LIGHTNING IN SAN DIEGO COUNTY... .A LINE OF SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE FROM THE MOUNTAINS TO THE COAST THROUGH MIDDAY. CAZ043-022000- /O.NEW.KSGX.BH.S.0011.140802T1747Z-140802T2000Z/ SAN DIEGO COUNTY COASTAL AREAS- 1047 AM PDT SAT AUG 2 2014 ...BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT IN EFFECT UNTIL 1 PM PDT THIS AFTERNOON... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN DIEGO HAS ISSUED A BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT FOR LIGHTNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1 PM PDT THIS AFTERNOON. * TIMING...THROUGH 1 PM TODAY. * IMPACTS...CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING MAY STRIKE THE BEACHES. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT IS ISSUED WHEN THREATS SUCH AS STRONG RIP CURRENTS...ELEVATED SURF HEIGHTS...MINOR TIDAL OVERFLOW...OR LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE AT LOCAL BEACHES. OBEY POSTED WARNING SIGNS AND FLAGS AND TALK TO A LIFEGUARD BEFORE SWIMMING. USE CAUTION WHEN IN OR NEAR THE WATER AND ALWAYS SWIM NEAR A LIFEGUARD. && $$ MM
1 follow-up statement
725 WHUS46 KSGX 021950 CFWSGX COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN DIEGO CA 1250 PM PDT SAT AUG 2 2014 ...BEACH HAZARD STATEMENT CANCELLED... CAZ043-022100- /O.EXP.KSGX.BH.S.0011.000000T0000Z-140802T2000Z/ SAN DIEGO COUNTY COASTAL AREAS- 1250 PM PDT SAT AUG 2 2014 ...BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT WILL EXPIRE AT 1 PM PDT THIS AFTERNOON... THE LINE OF SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS HAS MOVED THROUGH THE BEACHES OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY AND NO ADDITIONAL THREAT OF LIGHTNING STRIKING THE BEACHES IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. $$ MM
The office that day
Everything else NWS San Diego, CA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 1, 10:00 PM PDT | Flash Flood Watch | SGX | Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego | 46 hr |
| Aug 2, 11:37 AM PDT | Areal Flood Advisory | SGX | Riverside, San Bernardino | 3 hr |
| Aug 2, 12:28 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGX | Riverside, San Bernardino | 3 hr |
| Aug 2, 1:17 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGX | Riverside | 3 hr |
| Aug 2, 3:04 PM PDT | Areal Flood Advisory | SGX | San Diego | 3 hr |
| Aug 2, 3:51 PM PDT | Beach Hazards Statement | SGX | San Diego | 4 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.