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High Surf Advisory 37, NWS Los Angeles, CA

December 15, 2016Los Angeles County, California

NWS Los Angeles, CA issued this high surf advisory at Dec 15, 2016, 1:32 PM PST for Los Angeles County, California. It took effect at Dec 16, 2016, 12:00 PM PST. It was in force for 14 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Dec 15, 2016, 1:32 PM PST (21:32 UTC)
In effect from
Dec 16, 2016, 12:00 PM PST
Expired
Dec 17, 2016, 1:32 AM PST
In force
14 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 21:33 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.

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 Dec 15, 1:04 PM PST, 28 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 15, 1:04 PM PST, 28 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Dec 14, 8:10 PM PSTSmall Craft AdvisoryLOX25 hr
Dec 15, 2:19 AM PSTGale WarningLOX48 hr
Dec 15, 2:32 AM PSTHigh Wind WarningLOX27 hr
Dec 15, 2:32 AM PSTWind AdvisoryLOXSanta Barbara25 hr

Nearby

High Surf Advisories in California, 2016Every 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.