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Winter Storm Watch 2, NWS San Diego, CA

December 15, 2014San Bernardino County, California

NWS San Diego, CA issued this winter storm watch at Dec 15, 2014, 3:37 AM PST for San Bernardino County, California. It took effect at Dec 17, 2014, 12:00 AM PST. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Dec 15, 2014, 3:37 AM PST (11:37 UTC)
In effect from
Dec 17, 2014, 12:00 AM PST
Expired
Dec 16, 2014, 1:42 PM PST
In force
Issued by
NWS San Diego, CA

County San Bernardino County, CA

The radar

The Edwards AFB radar (KEYX), 129 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:36 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, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 246 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 2014-12-15Temperature 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 2014-12-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -22 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
1234 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-22 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
16 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 winter storm 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 winter storm watch went out at Dec 14, 9:40 PM PST, 5 hours 57 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 14, 9:40 PM PST, 5 hours 57 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Dec 14, 8:50 PM PSTSmall Craft AdvisorySGX71 hr
Dec 14, 9:14 PM PSTHigh Surf AdvisorySGXSan Diego63 hr
Dec 15, 3:37 AM PSTWinter Weather AdvisorySGXSan Bernardino38 hr
Dec 15, 11:53 AM PSTFlash Flood WatchSGXOrange, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego52 hr
Dec 15, 12:58 PM PSTWinter Weather AdvisorySGXRiverside, San Diego52 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.