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Special Weather Statement, NWS Eureka, CA
NWS Eureka, CA issued this special weather statement at May 25, 2015, 2:44 PM PDT for Trinity County, California. It was in force for 31 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 25, 2015, 2:44 PM PDT (21:44 UTC)
- Expired
- May 25, 2015, 3:15 PM PDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Eureka, CA
County Trinity County, CA
The radar
The Eureka (Bunker Hill) radar (KBHX), 123 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:44 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Reno, NV (KREV), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 409 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
- 33 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -48 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1251 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -1 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 27 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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</html>What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this special weather statement went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Eureka, CA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this special weather statement went out at May 25, 3:44 AM PDT, 11 hours earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 25, 3:44 AM PDT, 11 hours before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, May 25, 4:18 AM PDT, 10 hours 26 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EUREKA CA 418 AM PDT MON MAY 25 2015 CAZ001>003-076-261130- REDWOOD COAST-MENDOCINO COAST-NORTH COAST INTERIOR- MENDOCINO INTERIOR- 418 AM PDT MON MAY 25 2015 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHWEST CALIFORNIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. CAZ004-261130- UPPER TRINITY RIVER- 418 AM PDT MON MAY 25 2015 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHWEST CALIFORNIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY. A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS ON TUESDAY. OTHERWISE NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 25, 2:44 PM PDT, 0 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EUREKA
244 PM PDT MON MAY 25 2015
CAZ004-252215-
UPPER TRINITY RIVER-
244 PM PDT MON MAY 25 2015
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT SOUTHEASTERN TRINITY COUNTY...
AT 243 PM PDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS 9 MILES SOUTH OF DOUGLAS
CITY...OR 10 MILES NORTH OF YOLLA BOLLY DISTRICT RS...MOVING
SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.
WINDS IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH AND DIME SIZE HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS
STORM THROUGH 315 PM.
TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER...CONTACT YOUR NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT
AGENCY. THEY CAN RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
OFFICE IN EUREKA CALIFORNIA.
LAT...LON 4057 12270 4057 12272 4055 12275 4056 12276
4051 12280 4051 12285 4049 12285 4047 12288
4045 12290 4045 12293 4043 12294 4042 12295
4042 12297 4049 12305 4066 12286 4060 12270
TIME...MOT...LOC 2143Z 308DEG 12KT 4051 12289
RPAThe office that day
Everything else NWS Eureka, CA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 25, 4:19 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | EKA | Trinity | 26 min |
| May 25, 4:29 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EKA | Trinity | 31 min |
| May 25, 4:34 PM PDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EKA | Trinity | 116 min |
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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.