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High Surf Advisory 3, NWS Los Angeles, CA
NWS Los Angeles, CA issued this high surf advisory at Feb 6, 2015, 7:30 PM PST for Los Angeles County, California. It took effect at Feb 7, 2015, 4:00 AM PST. It was in force for 4 days.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 6, 2015, 7:30 PM PST (03:30 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 7, 2015, 4:00 AM PST
- Expired
- Feb 11, 2015, 6:55 AM PST
- In force
- 4 days
- Issued by
- NWS Los Angeles, CA
County Los Angeles County, CA
The radar
The Santa Ana Mts radar (KSOX), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:27 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, 3.5 hours before the alert went out and 184 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
- 2991 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 40 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 56 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this high surf advisory went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Los Angeles, CA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this high surf advisory went out at Feb 6, 2:15 PM PST, 5 hours 15 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 6, 2:15 PM PST, 5 hours 15 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOS ANGELES/OXNARD CA 600 AM PST FRI FEB 6 2015 CAZ034>041-044>046-051>054-059-087-088-547-548-071400- SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY CENTRAL COAST- SANTA BARBARA COUNTY CENTRAL COAST-SANTA YNEZ VALLEY- SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY INTERIOR VALLEYS-CUYAMA VALLEY- SANTA BARBARA COUNTY SOUTH COAST-VENTURA COUNTY COAST- LOS ANGELES COUNTY COAST INCLUDING DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES- VENTURA COUNTY INTERIOR VALLEYS-VENTURA COUNTY COASTAL VALLEYS- SANTA MONICA MOUNTAINS RECREATIONAL AREA- SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY MOUNTAINS- SANTA BARBARA COUNTY MOUNTAINS-VENTURA COUNTY MOUNTAINS- LOS ANGELES COUNTY MOUNTAINS EXCLUDING THE SANTA MONICA RANGE- ANTELOPE VALLEY-CATALINA ISLAND-SANTA CLARITA VALLEY- LOS ANGELES COUNTY SAN FERNANDO VALLEY- LOS ANGELES COUNTY SAN GABRIEL VALLEY- 600 AM PST FRI FEB 6 2015 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHWESTERN CALIFORNIA. .DAY ONE... TODAY AND TONIGHT LOCAL DENSE FOG WILL REDUCE VISIBILITIES TO ONE QUARTER MILE OR LESS ACROSS COASTAL SECTIONS OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY EARLY THIS MORNING. RAIN WILL DEVELOP ACROSS SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY THIS AFTERNOON OR EVENING...THEN OVERSPREAD SANTA BARBARA COUNTY TONIGHT. RAIN MAY BE LOCALLY HEAVY TONIGHT AND THERE MAY BE PONDING OF WATER AND LOCAL FLOODING ON AREA ROADWAYS...PARTICULARLY ACROSS SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY. THERE WILL BE A HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS ON AREA BEACHES TODAY AND TONIGHT. SURF WILL BEGIN TO BUILD ON WEST FACING BEACHES TONIGHT. * HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK......SEE FZUS56 KLOX - SRFLOX FOR DETAILS * * BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT...SEE WHUS46 KLOX - CFWLOX FOR DETAILS * * SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT..SEE WWUS86 KLOX - SPSLOX FOR DETAILS * .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY PERIOD OF RAIN ARE EXPECTED SATURDAY THROUGH EARLY MONDAY...ESPECIALLY ACROSS SANTA BARBARA AND SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTIES. RAIN COULD BE HEAVY AT TIMES....ESPECIALLY ACROSS SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY SATURDAY MORNING...AND AGAIN LATE SUNDAY. HIGH SURF IS POSSIBLE ON WEST FACING BEACHES SATURDAY THROUGH SUNDAY. THERE WILL BE A HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS ON AREA BEACHES SATURDAY THROUGH MONDAY. GUSTY SANTA ANA WINDS MAY AFFECT LOS ANGELES AND VENTURA COUNTIES WEDNESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. * HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK......SEE FZUS56 KLOX - SRFLOX FOR DETAILS * * BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT...SEE WHUS46 KLOX - CFWLOX FOR DETAILS * * SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT..SEE WWUS86 KLOX - SPSLOX FOR DETAILS * .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER CONDITIONS ACCORDING TO STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Feb 6, 1:56 PM PST, 5 hours 34 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Los Angeles, CA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 7, 3:05 AM PST | Small Craft Advisory for Hazardous Seas | LOX | 3 days |
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High Surf Advisories in California, 2015Every high surf advisory in 2015
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.