Alert archive / California / Beach Hazards Statements in 2015
Beach Hazards Statement 7, NWS San Diego, CA
NWS San Diego, CA issued this beach hazards statement at May 5, 2015, 10:50 PM PDT for Orange County, California. It took effect at May 5, 2015, 11:00 PM PDT. It was in force for 23 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 5, 2015, 10:50 PM PDT (05:50 UTC)
- In effect from
- May 5, 2015, 11:00 PM PDT
- Expired
- May 6, 2015, 10:00 PM PDT
- In force
- 23 hr
- Issued by
- NWS San Diego, CA
County Orange County, CA
The radar
The Santa Ana Mts radar (KSOX), 20 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:48 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, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 111 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
- 1013 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 4 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 111 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
449 WHUS46 KSGX 060550 CFWSGX COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN DIEGO CA 1050 PM PDT TUE MAY 5 2015 ...HIGH SURF ADVISORY EXPIRES... ...BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT IN EFFECT THROUGH WEDNESDAY EVENING... .THE LONG-PERIOD SWELLS ARE SUBSIDING BUT WILL STILL PRODUCE ELEVATED SURF AND STRONG RIP CURRENTS ALONG THE ORANGE COUNTY COAST. CAZ552-061400- /O.EXP.KSGX.SU.Y.0003.000000T0000Z-150506T0600Z/ /O.NEW.KSGX.BH.S.0007.150506T0600Z-150507T0500Z/ ORANGE COUNTY COASTAL AREAS- 1050 PM PDT TUE MAY 5 2015 ...BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT IN EFFECT THROUGH WEDNESDAY EVENING... ...HIGH SURF ADVISORY WILL EXPIRE AT 11 PM PDT THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN DIEGO HAS ISSUED A BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT FOR ELEVATED SURF AND STRONG RIP CURRENTS...WHICH IS IN EFFECT THROUGH WEDNESDAY EVENING. * CHANGES SINCE LAST ISSUANCE...SWELLS AND SURF ARE DECREASING...BUT STRONG RIP CURRENTS REMAIN A THREAT TO SAFETY. * WAVES AND SURF...5 TO 7 FEET WITH OCCASIONAL SETS TO 10 FEET AT FAVORED LOCATIONS...IN PARTICULAR THE WEDGE. * TIMING...THROUGH WEDNESDAY. * IMPACTS...DANGEROUS SWIMMING CONDITIONS. PEOPLE STANDING TOO CLOSE TO THE WAVES MAY BE SWEPT OFF THEIR FEET AND INJURED. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A HIGH SURF ADVISORY MEANS THAT HIGH SURF WILL AFFECT BEACHES IN THE ADVISORY AREA...PRODUCING RIP CURRENTS AND LOCALIZED BEACH EROSION. SWIMMERS ARE STRONGLY ENCOURAGED NOT TO ENTER THE WATER. && PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT IS ISSUED WHEN THREATS SUCH AS STRONG RIP CURRENTS...ELEVATED SURF HEIGHTS...MINOR TIDAL OVERFLOW...OR LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE AT LOCAL BEACHES. OBEY POSTED WARNING SIGNS AND FLAGS AND TALK TO A LIFEGUARD BEFORE SWIMMING. USE CAUTION WHEN IN OR NEAR THE WATER AND ALWAYS SWIM NEAR A LIFEGUARD. && $$ CAZ043-060700- /O.EXP.KSGX.SU.Y.0003.000000T0000Z-150506T0600Z/ SAN DIEGO COUNTY COASTAL AREAS- 1050 PM PDT TUE MAY 5 2015 ...HIGH SURF ADVISORY WILL EXPIRE AT 11 PM PDT THIS EVENING... THE SOUTH SWELLS ARE SUBSIDING AND THE SURF HAS DECREASED TO BELOW THRESHOLDS. $$ THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WANTS TO HEAR FROM YOU. PLEASE VISIT THE FOLLOWING LINK TO GIVE US FEEDBACK ON THE NEW BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT: HTTP://WWW.NWS.NOAA.GOV/SURVEY/NWS-SURVEY.PHP?CODE=CHMBHS
2 follow-up statements
267 WHUS46 KSGX 061252 CFWSGX COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN DIEGO CA 552 AM PDT WED MAY 6 2015 ...BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... .THE LONG-PERIOD SWELLS ARE SUBSIDING BUT WILL STILL PRODUCE ELEVATED SURF AND STRONG RIP CURRENTS ALONG THE ORANGE COUNTY COAST. CAZ552-062100- /O.CON.KSGX.BH.S.0007.000000T0000Z-150507T0500Z/ ORANGE COUNTY COASTAL AREAS- 552 AM PDT WED MAY 6 2015 ...BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... * WAVES AND SURF...5 TO 7 FEET WITH OCCASIONAL SETS TO 10 FEET AT FAVORED LOCATIONS...IN PARTICULAR THE WEDGE. * TIMING...THROUGH TODAY. * IMPACTS...DANGEROUS SWIMMING CONDITIONS. PEOPLE STANDING TOO CLOSE TO THE WAVES MAY BE SWEPT OFF THEIR FEET AND INJURED. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A HIGH SURF ADVISORY MEANS THAT HIGH SURF WILL AFFECT BEACHES IN THE ADVISORY AREA...PRODUCING RIP CURRENTS AND LOCALIZED BEACH EROSION. SWIMMERS ARE STRONGLY ENCOURAGED NOT TO ENTER THE WATER. A BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT IS ISSUED WHEN THREATS SUCH AS STRONG RIP CURRENTS...ELEVATED SURF HEIGHTS...MINOR TIDAL OVERFLOW...OR LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE AT LOCAL BEACHES. OBEY POSTED WARNING SIGNS AND FLAGS AND TALK TO A LIFEGUARD BEFORE SWIMMING. USE CAUTION WHEN IN OR NEAR THE WATER AND ALWAYS SWIM NEAR A LIFEGUARD. && $$ THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WANTS TO HEAR FROM YOU. PLEASE VISIT THE FOLLOWING LINK TO GIVE US FEEDBACK ON THE NEW BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT: HTTP://WWW.NWS.NOAA.GOV/SURVEY/NWS-SURVEY.PHP?CODE=CHMBHS
980 WHUS46 KSGX 062012 CFWSGX COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN DIEGO CA 112 PM PDT WED MAY 6 2015 ...BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... .THE LONG-PERIOD SWELLS ARE SUBSIDING BUT WILL STILL PRODUCE ELEVATED SURF AND STRONG RIP CURRENTS ALONG THE ORANGE COUNTY COAST THROUGH THIS EVENING. CAZ552-070500- /O.CON.KSGX.BH.S.0007.000000T0000Z-150507T0500Z/ ORANGE COUNTY COASTAL AREAS- 112 PM PDT WED MAY 6 2015 ...BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM PDT THIS EVENING... * WAVES AND SURF...4 TO 6 FEET WITH OCCASIONAL SETS TO 7 FEET. SETS UP TO 10 FEET AT THE WEDGE. * TIMING...THROUGH THE EVENING. * IMPACTS...DANGEROUS SWIMMING CONDITIONS. PEOPLE STANDING TOO CLOSE TO THE WAVES MAY BE SWEPT OFF THEIR FEET AND INJURED. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT IS ISSUED WHEN THREATS SUCH AS STRONG RIP CURRENTS...ELEVATED SURF HEIGHTS...MINOR TIDAL OVERFLOW...OR LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE AT LOCAL BEACHES. OBEY POSTED WARNING SIGNS AND FLAGS AND TALK TO A LIFEGUARD BEFORE SWIMMING. USE CAUTION WHEN IN OR NEAR THE WATER AND ALWAYS SWIM NEAR A LIFEGUARD. && $$ MM
Nearby
Beach Hazards Statements in California, 2015Every beach hazards statement 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.