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Beach Hazards Statement 4, NWS San Francisco Bay Area, CA
NWS San Francisco Bay Area, CA issued this beach hazards statement at Mar 20, 2016, 5:56 AM PDT for Monterey County, California. It was in force for 17 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 20, 2016, 5:56 AM PDT (12:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 20, 2016, 11:00 PM PDT
- In force
- 17 hr
- Issued by
- NWS San Francisco Bay Area, CA
County Monterey County, CA
The radar
The San Francisco radar (KMUX), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:57 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Vandenberg AFB, CA (KVBG), launched 12:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 183 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
- 1620 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -84 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 42 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
969 WHUS46 KMTR 201256 CFWMTR COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN FRANCISCO CA 556 AM PDT SUN MAR 20 2016 CAZ530-210600- /O.NEW.KMTR.BH.S.0004.160320T1256Z-160321T0600Z/ SOUTHERN MONTEREY BAY AND BIG SUR COAST- 556 AM PDT SUN MAR 20 2016 ...BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT IN EFFECT THROUGH 11 PM PDT THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN FRANCISCO HAS ISSUED A BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT FOR STRONG RIP CURRENTS AND LARGE SURF WHICH IS IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING. * HAZARDS...A HEIGHTENED RISK OF STRONG RIP CURRENTS AND LARGE SURF. THE BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT MAY NEED TO BE EXTENDED INTO MONDAY AS LARGER AND LONGER PERIOD SWELL IS EXPECTED TO ARRIVE LATE TONIGHT AND MONDAY MORNING. * TIMING...THROUGH 11 PM PDT THIS EVENING. * LOCATION...HEIGHTENED RIP CURRENT RISK IS FOR THE SOUTHERN MONTEREY BAY AREA AND THE BIG SUR COAST...INCLUDING MANRESA STATE BEACH AND MARINA STATE BEACH. 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. && $$
1 follow-up statement
116 WHUS46 KMTR 210603 CFWMTR COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN FRANCISCO CA 1103 PM PDT SUN MAR 20 2016 CAZ530-210715- /O.EXP.KMTR.BH.S.0004.000000T0000Z-160321T0600Z/ SOUTHERN MONTEREY BAY AND BIG SUR COAST- 1103 PM PDT SUN MAR 20 2016 ...BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT HAS EXPIRED... $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS San Francisco Bay Area, CA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 19, 5:46 PM PDT | Small Craft Advisory | MTR | 20 hr | |
| Mar 20, 3:29 AM PDT | Small Craft Advisory for Rough Bar | MTR | 71 hr | |
| Mar 20, 3:29 AM PDT | Small Craft Advisory | MTR | 9 days |
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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.