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High Surf Advisory 24, NWS Los Angeles, CA

June 13, 2016Los Angeles County, California

NWS Los Angeles, CA issued this high surf advisory at Jun 13, 2016, 6:36 PM PDT for Los Angeles County, California. It took effect at Jun 15, 2016, 6:00 AM PDT. It was in force for 49 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 13, 2016, 6:36 PM PDT (01:36 UTC)
In effect from: Jun 15, 2016, 6:00 AM PDT
Expired: Jun 17, 2016, 6:54 AM PDT
In force: 49 hr
Issued by: NWS Los Angeles, CA

County Los Angeles County, CA

The radar

The Santa Ana Mts radar (KSOX), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:35 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, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 184 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1050 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -18 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -25 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this high surf advisory went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Los Angeles, CA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this high surf advisory went out at Jun 13, 5:23 PM PDT, 1 hour 13 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 13, 5:23 PM PDT, 1 hour 13 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 13, 6:00 AM PDT, 12 hours 36 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOS ANGELES/OXNARD CA
600 AM PDT MON JUN 13 2016

CAZ034>041-044>046-051>054-059-087-088-547-548-141300-
SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY CENTRAL COAST-
SANTA BARBARA COUNTY CENTRAL COAST-SANTA YNEZ VALLEY-
SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY INTERIOR VALLEYS-CUYAMA VALLEY-
SANTA BARBARA COUNTY SOUTH COAST-VENTURA COUNTY COAST-
LOS ANGELES COUNTY COAST INCLUDING DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES-
VENTURA COUNTY INTERIOR VALLEYS-VENTURA COUNTY COASTAL VALLEYS-
SANTA MONICA MOUNTAINS RECREATIONAL AREA-
SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY MOUNTAINS-
SANTA BARBARA COUNTY MOUNTAINS-VENTURA COUNTY MOUNTAINS-
LOS ANGELES COUNTY MOUNTAINS EXCLUDING THE SANTA MONICA RANGE-
ANTELOPE VALLEY-CATALINA ISLAND-SANTA CLARITA VALLEY-
LOS ANGELES COUNTY SAN FERNANDO VALLEY-
LOS ANGELES COUNTY SAN GABRIEL VALLEY-
600 AM PDT MON JUN 13 2016

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHWESTERN CALIFORNIA.

.DAY ONE... TODAY

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY

A HAZARDOUS HEAT WAVE WILL SET UP NEXT WEEKEND.

ASR

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 13, 6:36 PM PDT	Beach Hazards Statement	LOX	Los Angeles	35 hr
Jun 14, 3:04 AM PDT	Small Craft Advisory	LOX		13 days
Jun 14, 9:16 AM PDT	Gale Warning	LOX		18 hr
Jun 14, 2:22 PM PDT	Wind Advisory	LOX		13 hr

Nearby

High Surf Advisories in California, 2016 Every high surf advisory in 2016

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.