Alert archive / California / Special Weather Statements in 2016
Special Weather Statement, NWS Eureka, CA
NWS Eureka, CA issued this special weather statement at Apr 13, 2016, 6:21 PM PDT for Del Norte County, California. It was in force for 39 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
- Apr 13, 2016, 6:21 PM PDT (01:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 13, 2016, 7:00 PM PDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Eureka, CA
County Del Norte County, CA
The radar
The Medford radar (KMAX), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:24 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
Medford/Jackson, OR (KMFR), launched 00:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 114 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
- 8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2836 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 58 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 51 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 144 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
996
WWUS86 KEKA 140121
SPSEKA
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EUREKA
621 PM PDT WED APR 13 2016
CAZ001-003-140200-
REDWOOD COAST CA-NORTH COAST INTERIOR CA-
621 PM PDT WED APR 13 2016
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHERN HUMBOLDT AND DEL NORTE
COUNTIES UNTIL 700 PM PDT...
AT 621 PM PDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG
A LINE EXTENDING FROM SMITH RIVER TO 12 MILES WEST OF ORICK. MOVEMENT
WAS EAST AT 30 MPH.
HALF INCH HAIL AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH
THESE STORMS.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
CRESCENT CITY...KLAMATH...JEDEDIAH SMITH STATE PARK...JACK MC NAMERA
FIELD AIRPORT...CRESCENT CITY NORTH...GASQUET...SMITH RIVER...
BERTSCH-OCEANVIEW...FT DICK AND KLAMATH GLEN.
LAT...LON 4199 12363 4186 12365 4183 12370 4180 12367
4177 12369 4173 12366 4164 12368 4160 12372
4159 12368 4147 12370 4146 12407 4155 12408
4154 12405 4157 12410 4172 12415 4178 12426
4193 12420 4193 12419 4200 12420
TIME...MOT...LOC 0121Z 265DEG 27KT 4194 12417 4134 12429
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Eureka, CA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 13, 5:33 PM PDT | Special Marine Warning | EKA | 42 min | |
| Apr 13, 5:56 PM PDT | Special Marine Warning | EKA | 49 min | |
| Apr 13, 6:15 PM PDT | Special Marine Warning | EKA | 30 min | |
| Apr 13, 6:43 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | EKA | Humboldt | 47 min |
| Apr 13, 6:47 PM PDT | Special Marine Warning | EKA | 28 min | |
| Apr 13, 7:30 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | EKA | Humboldt | 45 min |
| Apr 13, 8:16 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | EKA | 29 min | |
| Apr 13, 9:02 PM PDT | Small Craft Advisory | EKA | 42 hr | |
| Apr 14, 8:38 AM PDT | High Surf Advisory | EKA | 12 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.