Alert archive / California / Beach Hazards Statements in 2016
Beach Hazards Statement 3, NWS San Francisco Bay Area, CA
NWS San Francisco Bay Area, CA issued this beach hazards statement at Feb 9, 2016, 8:29 AM PST for 6 counties in California. It was in force for 12 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 9, 2016, 8:29 AM PST (16:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 9, 2016, 8:00 PM PST
- In force
- 12 hr
- Issued by
- NWS San Francisco Bay Area, CA
Counties City and County of San Francisco, CA, Marin County, CA, Monterey County, CA, San Mateo County, CA, Santa Cruz County, CA, Sonoma County, CA
The radar
The San Francisco radar (KMUX), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:34 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
Oakland, CA (KOAK), launched 12:00Z, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 26 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
- 2590 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 25 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 72 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
696 WHUS46 KMTR 091629 CFWMTR COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN FRANCISCO CA 829 AM PST TUE FEB 9 2016 CAZ006-505-509-529-530-100030- /O.NEW.KMTR.BH.S.0003.160209T1629Z-160210T0400Z/ SAN FRANCISCO- COASTAL NORTH BAY...INCLUDING POINT REYES NATIONAL SEASHORE- SAN FRANCISCO PENINSULA COAST-NORTHERN MONTEREY BAY- SOUTHERN MONTEREY BAY AND BIG SUR COAST- 829 AM PST TUE FEB 9 2016 ...BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM PST THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN FRANCISCO HAS ISSUED A BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT FOR RIP CURRENTS AND LARGE SHORE BREAK...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM PST THIS EVENING. * WAVES... WEST TO NORTHWEST SWELL 7 TO 8 FEET AT 13 TO 15 SECONDS. OFFSHORE WINDS WILL ALLOW FOR LARGER WAVES. * HAZARDS... INCREASED RISK OF RIP CURRENTS AND LARGE SHORE BREAK. * TIMING... NOW THROUGH 8PM TUESDAY. * LOCATION...COASTLINE FROM SONOMA COUNTY SOUTH THROUGH MONTEREY COUNTY. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A BEACH HAZARD STATEMENT FOR RIP CURRENTS MEANS THAT CONDITIONS ARE PRESENT TO SUPPORT A HEIGHTENED RISK OF STRONG RIP CURRENTS. RIP CURRENTS ARE TYPICALLY MORE FREQUENT AND STRONGER IN THE VICINITY OF JETTIES...INLETS...AND PIERS. SWIMMERS CAUGHT IN A RIP CURRENT SHOULD SWIM PARALLEL TO THE COAST TO ESCAPE THE RIP CURRENT BEFORE TRYING TO SWIM FOR SHORE. SWIMMERS SHOULD ALWAYS SWIM NEAR A LIFEGUARD. && $$
1 follow-up statement
719 WHUS46 KMTR 092048 CFWMTR COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN FRANCISCO CA 1248 PM PST TUE FEB 9 2016 CAZ006-505-509-529-530-100400- /O.CON.KMTR.BH.S.0003.000000T0000Z-160210T0400Z/ SAN FRANCISCO- COASTAL NORTH BAY...INCLUDING POINT REYES NATIONAL SEASHORE- SAN FRANCISCO PENINSULA COAST-NORTHERN MONTEREY BAY- SOUTHERN MONTEREY BAY AND BIG SUR COAST- 1248 PM PST TUE FEB 9 2016 ...BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM PST THIS EVENING... * WAVES... WEST TO NORTHWEST SWELL 7 TO 8 FEET AT 13 TO 15 SECONDS. OFFSHORE WINDS WILL ALLOW FOR LARGER WAVES. * HAZARDS... INCREASED RISK OF RIP CURRENTS AND LARGE SHORE BREAK. * TIMING... NOW THROUGH 8PM TUESDAY. * LOCATION...COASTLINE FROM SONOMA COUNTY SOUTH THROUGH MONTEREY COUNTY. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A BEACH HAZARD STATEMENT FOR RIP CURRENTS MEANS THAT CONDITIONS ARE PRESENT TO SUPPORT A HEIGHTENED RISK OF STRONG RIP CURRENTS. RIP CURRENTS ARE TYPICALLY MORE FREQUENT AND STRONGER IN THE VICINITY OF JETTIES...INLETS...AND PIERS. SWIMMERS CAUGHT IN A RIP CURRENT SHOULD SWIM PARALLEL TO THE COAST TO ESCAPE THE RIP CURRENT BEFORE TRYING TO SWIM FOR SHORE. SWIMMERS SHOULD ALWAYS SWIM NEAR A LIFEGUARD. && $$
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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.