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High Surf Advisory 11, NWS San Francisco Bay Area, CA
NWS San Francisco Bay Area, CA issued this high surf advisory at Mar 5, 2016, 3:34 AM PST for 6 counties in California. It took effect at Mar 5, 2016, 10:00 PM PST. It was in force for 60 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 5, 2016, 3:34 AM PST (11:34 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 5, 2016, 10:00 PM PST
- Expired
- Mar 8, 2016, 10:00 AM PST
- In force
- 60 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 11:35 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
Vandenberg AFB, CA (KVBG), launched 00:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 349 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
- 741 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -12 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 27 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 San Francisco Bay Area, CA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this high surf advisory went out at Mar 4, 10:40 PM PST, 4 hours 54 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 4, 10:40 PM PST, 4 hours 54 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 4, 1:11 PM PST, 14 hours 23 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN FRANCISCO CA 111 PM PST FRI MAR 4 2016 CAZ006-505>513-516>518-528>530-051400- SAN FRANCISCO- COASTAL NORTH BAY...INCLUDING POINT REYES NATIONAL SEASHORE- NORTH BAY INTERIOR VALLEYS-NORTH BAY MOUNTAINS- SAN FRANCISCO BAY SHORELINE-SAN FRANCISCO PENINSULA COAST- EAST BAY INTERIOR VALLEYS-EAST BAY HILLS AND DIABLO RANGE- SANTA CRUZ MOUNTAINS-SANTA CLARA VALLEY...INCLUDING SAN JOSE- SOUTHERN SALINAS VALLEY...ARROYO SECO...AND LAKE SAN ANTONIO- SANTA LUCIA MOUNTAINS AND LOS PADRES NATIONAL FOREST- MOUNTAINS OF SAN BENITO AND INTERIOR MONTEREY COUNTY INCLUDING PINNACLES NATIONAL PARK- NORTHERN SALINAS VALLEY...HOLLISTER VALLEY...AND CARMEL VALLEY- NORTHERN MONTEREY BAY-SOUTHERN MONTEREY BAY AND BIG SUR COAST- 111 PM PST FRI MAR 4 2016 ...HEAVY RAIN WITH GUSTY WINDS FORECAST FOR SATURDAY... ...MORE RAIN EXPECTED NEXT WEEK... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE SAN FRANCISCO AND MONTEREY BAY REGION. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT SOME LIGHT RAIN TODAY IS EXPECTED TO GRADUALLY INCREASE IN COVERAGE LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. HOWEVER RAINFALL TODAY IS FORECAST TO BE LIGHT WITH MINIMAL IMPACTS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY A SERIES OF SYSTEMS WILL MOVE THROUGH OUR REGION. RIGHT NOW THE MAIN AREAS OF CONCERN ARE: * WINDS: A WIND ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT FOR ALL LOCATIONS SATURDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING. WINDS WILL PICK UP THROUGH THE DAY ON SATURDAY AS A STRONG COLD FRONT MOVES TO THE SAN FRANCISCO AND MONTEREY BAY REGION. MANY LOCATIONS COULD SEE GUSTS TO NEAR 40 MPH WITH SOME HIGHER ELEVATION SPOTS EXCEEDING 50 MPH. * RAIN: MULTIPLE ROUNDS OF RAIN ARE FORECAST WITH THE GREATEST AMOUNTS EXPECTED FOR SATURDAY TO SATURDAY NIGHT ALONG WITH SUNDAY EVENING INTO MONDAY MORNING. MINOR URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOODING WILL BE LIKELY. IN ADDITION, THE HEAVY RAIN COULD LEAD TO LOCAL DEBRIS FLOWS WHICH MAY CLOSE SOME ROADS. OF PARTICULAR CONCERN IS HIGHWAY 1 ALONG THE BIG SUR COAST FOR BOTH SYSTEMS. ADDITION RAINFALL IS EXPECTED TO OCCUR THROUGHOUT NEXT WEEK WITH THE GREATEST AMOUNTS SLATED FOR THE SECOND HALF OF THE WEEK.
The office that day
Everything else NWS San Francisco Bay Area, CA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 5, 7:28 AM PST | Flash Flood Watch | MTR | Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Monterey, Napa, San Benito and 5 more | 15 hr |
| Mar 5, 2:48 PM PST | Small Craft Advisory | MTR | 3 days |
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.