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Winter Weather Advisory 14, NWS Eureka, CA

November 25, 20164 counties in California

NWS Eureka, CA issued this winter weather advisory at Nov 25, 2016, 3:07 PM PST for 4 counties in California. It took effect at Nov 26, 2016, 6:00 AM PST. It was in force for 26 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Nov 25, 2016, 3:07 PM PST (23:07 UTC)
In effect from
Nov 26, 2016, 6:00 AM PST
Expired
Nov 27, 2016, 8:00 AM PST
In force
26 hr
Issued by
NWS Eureka, CA

Counties Del Norte County, CA, Humboldt County, CA, Mendocino County, CA, Trinity County, CA

The radar

The Eureka (Bunker Hill) radar (KBHX), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:08 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, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 204 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Medford/Jackson, OR at 12:00Z on 2016-11-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Medford/Jackson, OR at 12:00Z on 2016-11-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -2 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
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

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Eureka, CA issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Nov 25, 3:36 AM PSTGale WarningEKA23 hr
Nov 25, 3:36 AM PSTSmall Craft AdvisoryEKA4 days
Nov 25, 8:51 AM PSTWind AdvisoryEKADel Norte, Humboldt16 hr
Nov 25, 8:52 AM PSTFlood WatchEKADel Norte, Humboldt6 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.