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Wind Advisory 21, NWS Eureka, CA
NWS Eureka, CA issued this wind advisory at Nov 25, 2016, 8:51 AM PST for Del Norte County, Humboldt County, California. It took effect at Nov 25, 2016, 5:00 PM PST. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 25, 2016, 8:51 AM PST (16:51 UTC)
- In effect from
- Nov 25, 2016, 5:00 PM PST
- Expired
- Nov 26, 2016, 1:00 AM PST
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Eureka, CA
Counties Del Norte County, CA, Humboldt County, CA
The radar
The Eureka (Bunker Hill) radar (KBHX), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:53 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 12:00Z, 4.9 hours before the alert went out and 158 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
- 1508 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -2 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 222 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
198 WWUS76 KEKA 251651 NPWEKA URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EUREKA CA 851 AM PST FRI NOV 25 2016 ...VERY WINDY CONDITIONS FOR THE HIGHER ELEVATIONS THIS EVENING.... CAZ102-104>106-260900- /O.CAN.KEKA.WI.Y.0020.000000T0000Z-161125T1700Z/ /O.NEW.KEKA.WI.Y.0021.161126T0100Z-161126T0900Z/ DEL NORTE INTERIOR-SOUTHWESTERN HUMBOLDT- NORTHERN HUMBOLDT INTERIOR-SOUTHERN HUMBOLDT INTERIOR- 851 AM PST FRI NOV 25 2016 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 5 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 1 AM PST SATURDAY FOR ELEVATIONS ABOVE 2000 FEET... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN EUREKA HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 5 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 1 AM PST SATURDAY. * WINDS...SOUTHEAST TO SOUTH INCREASING TO 25 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS TO AROUND 50 MPH THIS EVENING. WINDS WILL DIMINISH EARLY SATURDAY MORNING. * LOCATIONS INCLUDE...ELEVATIONS AT OR ABOVE 2000 FEET IN DEL NORTE AND HUMBOLDT COUNTIES...INCLUDING KNEELAND. * HIGHWAYS IMPACTED...199 AND 299. INCLUDES BERRY SUMMIT ON HIGHWAY 299 AND NEAR THE COLLIER TUNNEL ON HIGHWAY 199. * FOR A DETAILED VIEW OF THE HAZARD AREA...VISIT HTTP://WWW.WRH.NOAA.GOV/MAP PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT WIND GUSTS OF 45 TO 55 MPH ARE EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG WILL MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT. USE EXTRA CAUTION. && $$
1 follow-up statement
024 WWUS76 KEKA 260903 NPWEKA URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EUREKA CA 103 AM PST SAT NOV 26 2016 CAZ102-104>106-261015- /O.EXP.KEKA.WI.Y.0021.000000T0000Z-161126T0900Z/ DEL NORTE INTERIOR-SOUTHWESTERN HUMBOLDT- NORTHERN HUMBOLDT INTERIOR-SOUTHERN HUMBOLDT INTERIOR- 103 AM PST SAT NOV 26 2016 ...WIND ADVISORY HAS EXPIRED... WIND GUSTS TO AROUND 45 MPH REMAIN POSSIBLE OVER RIDGETOP LOCATIONS FOR THE NEXT FEW HOURS, BUT WINDS WILL CONTINUE TO DIMINISH THROUGH THE EARLY MORNING HOURS. $$ SEC
The office that day
Everything else NWS Eureka, CA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 25, 3:36 AM PST | Gale Warning | EKA | 23 hr | |
| Nov 25, 3:36 AM PST | Small Craft Advisory | EKA | 4 days | |
| Nov 25, 8:52 AM PST | Flood Watch | EKA | Del Norte, Humboldt | 6 hr |
| Nov 25, 3:07 PM PST | Winter Weather Advisory | EKA | Del Norte, Humboldt, Mendocino, Trinity | 41 hr |
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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.