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Beach Hazards Statement 4, NWS San Francisco Bay Area, CA
NWS San Francisco Bay Area, CA issued this beach hazards statement at Jul 28, 2015, 12:33 PM PDT for Santa Cruz County, California. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 28, 2015, 12:33 PM PDT (19:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 28, 2015, 9:00 PM PDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- NWS San Francisco Bay Area, CA
County Santa Cruz County, CA
The radar
The San Francisco radar (KMUX), 18 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:35 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Oakland, CA (KOAK), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 80 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
- 2479 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 17 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 15 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
497 WHUS46 KMTR 281933 CFWMTR URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN FRANCISCO CA 1233 PM PDT TUE JUL 28 2015 ...INCREASED RISK OF HAZARDOUS BEACH CONDITIONS ALONG SOUTH FACING BEACHES... .A LONG PERIOD SOUTHWESTERLY SWELL IS BRINGING AN INCREASED RISK OF RIP CURRENTS AND LARGE SHORE BREAK ALONG THE SOUTH FACING BEACHES OF SANTA CRUZ COUNTY TODAY. CAZ529-290400- /O.NEW.KMTR.BH.S.0004.150728T1933Z-150729T0400Z/ NORTHERN MONTEREY BAY- 1233 PM PDT TUE JUL 28 2015 ...BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM PDT THIS EVENING... * LOCATION... SOUTH FACING BEACHES OF SANTA CRUZ COUNTY. * TIMING... THROUGH 9 PM TUESDAY EVENING. * IMPACTS... EXCEPTIONALLY STRONG RIP CURRENTS AND LARGE SHORE BREAK. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT MEANS THAT POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS CONDITIONS MAY EXIST ON SPECIFIC BEACHES. THESE HAZARDS MAY INCLUDE LARGE SHORE BREAK AND STRONG RIP CURRENTS. ALL OF WHICH COULD BE LIFE THREATENING. BE SURE TO ALWAYS KEEP YOUR EYES ON THE OCEAN. && $$ HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/SANFRANCISCO
1 follow-up statement
339 WHUS46 KMTR 290414 CFWMTR URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN FRANCISCO CA 914 PM PDT TUE JUL 28 2015 CAZ529-290515- /O.EXP.KMTR.BH.S.0004.000000T0000Z-150729T0400Z/ NORTHERN MONTEREY BAY- 914 PM PDT TUE JUL 28 2015 ...BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT HAS EXPIRED... A LONG PERIOD SOUTHWESTERLY SWELL WILL CONTINUE TO IMPACT SOUTH FACING BEACHES THROUGH WEDNESDAY HOWEVER THE PERIODS WILL GRADUALLY BECOME SHORTER OVERNIGHT RESULTING IN A DECREASED RISK OF RIP CURRENTS. $$ HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/SANFRANCISCO
The office that day
Everything else NWS San Francisco Bay Area, CA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 28, 2:27 AM PDT | Small Craft Advisory | MTR | 19 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.