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High Wind Watch 11, NWS San Diego, CA

November 22, 20144 counties in California

NWS San Diego, CA issued this high wind watch at Nov 22, 2014, 7:24 PM PST for 4 counties in California. It took effect at Nov 24, 2014, 4:00 PM PST. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Nov 22, 2014, 7:24 PM PST (03:24 UTC)
In effect from
Nov 24, 2014, 4:00 PM PST
Expired
Nov 23, 2014, 4:00 AM PST
In force
Issued by
NWS San Diego, CA

Counties Orange County, CA, Riverside County, CA, San Bernardino County, CA, San Diego County, CA

The radar

The Santa Ana Mts radar (KSOX), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:28 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

San Diego, CA (KNKX), launched 00:00Z, 3.4 hours before the alert went out and 124 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, San Diego, CA at 00:00Z on 2014-11-23Temperature 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°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, San Diego, CA at 00:00Z on 2014-11-23The 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
1540 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
21 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
112 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this high wind watch went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS San Diego, CA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this high wind watch went out at Nov 22, 12:58 PM PST, 6 hours 26 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Nov 22, 12:58 PM PST, 6 hours 26 minutes before
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In the hours before

Local storm report, Nov 22, 6:53 PM PST, 31 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN DIEGO CA
653 PM PST SAT NOV 22 2014

...TIME...  ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
...DATE...  ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0150 PM     NON-TSTM WND GST 7 ENE CABAZON           33.95N 116.66W
11/22/2014  M55 MPH          RIVERSIDE          CA   MESONET

            MESONET STATION WHITEWATER RAWS /WWAC1/

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NWS SAN DIEGO CA
IRIS SYSTEM

The office that day

Everything else NWS San Diego, CA issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Nov 23, 4:00 AM PSTHigh Wind WarningSGXOrange, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego53 hr
Nov 23, 1:20 PM PSTRed Flag WarningSGXOrange, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego67 hr

Nearby

High Wind Watches in California, 2014Every high wind watch in 2014

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.