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Beach Hazards Statement 31, NWS San Diego, CA
NWS San Diego, CA issued this beach hazards statement at Oct 24, 2016, 10:30 AM PDT for Orange County, California. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 24, 2016, 10:30 AM PDT (17:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 24, 2016, 5:00 PM PDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- NWS San Diego, CA
County Orange County, CA
The radar
The Santa Ana Mts radar (KSOX), 20 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:33 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.
The nearest sounding before it
San Diego, CA (KNKX), launched 12:00Z, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 111 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
- 2400 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 113 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 147 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted.
643 WHUS46 KSGX 241730 CFWSGX COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN DIEGO CA 1030 AM PDT MON OCT 24 2016 ...BEACH LIGHTNING POSSIBLE FOR ORANGE COUNTY THROUGH EARLY AFTERNOON... CAZ552-242000- /O.NEW.KSGX.BH.S.0031.161024T1730Z-161024T2000Z/ ORANGE COUNTY COASTAL AREAS- 1030 AM PDT MON OCT 24 2016 ...BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT IN EFFECT UNTIL 1 PM PDT THIS AFTERNOON... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN DIEGO HAS ISSUED A BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT FOR LIGHTNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1 PM PDT THIS AFTERNOON. BANDS OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE ASHORE THROUGH 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON. LIGHTNING STRIKES ARE POSSIBLE MAINLY ALONG ORANGE COUNTY BEACHES THROUGH THIS PERIOD. THUNDERSTORM CHANCES WILL DECREASE THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. * IMPACTS...CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. SEEK SAFE SHELTER AS THUNDERSTORMS MOVE ASHORE. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT IS ISSUED WHEN THREATS SUCH AS STRONG RIP CURRENTS...ELEVATED SURF HEIGHTS...MINOR TIDAL OVERFLOW...OR LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE AT LOCAL BEACHES. OBEY POSTED WARNING SIGNS AND FLAGS AND TALK TO A LIFEGUARD BEFORE SWIMMING. && $$ TS HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/SANDIEGO
1 follow-up statement
794 WHUS46 KSGX 241738 CFWSGX COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN DIEGO CA 1038 AM PDT MON OCT 24 2016 ...BEACH LIGHTNING POSSIBLE FOR ORANGE COUNTY THROUGH EARLY EVENING... CAZ552-250000- /O.EXT.KSGX.BH.S.0031.000000T0000Z-161025T0000Z/ ORANGE COUNTY COASTAL AREAS- 1038 AM PDT MON OCT 24 2016 ...BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM PDT THIS AFTERNOON... BANDS OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE ASHORE THROUGH 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON. LIGHTNING STRIKES ARE POSSIBLE MAINLY ALONG ORANGE COUNTY BEACHES THROUGH THIS PERIOD. THUNDERSTORM CHANCES WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON...DECREASING THIS EVENING. * IMPACTS...CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. SEEK SAFE SHELTER AS THUNDERSTORMS MOVE ASHORE. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT IS ISSUED WHEN THREATS SUCH AS STRONG RIP CURRENTS...ELEVATED SURF HEIGHTS...MINOR TIDAL OVERFLOW...OR LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE AT LOCAL BEACHES. OBEY POSTED WARNING SIGNS AND FLAGS AND TALK TO A LIFEGUARD BEFORE SWIMMING. && $$ TS HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/SANDIEGO
The office that day
Everything else NWS San Diego, CA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 24, 4:45 AM PDT | Beach Hazards Statement | SGX | Orange, San Diego | 2 hr |
| Oct 24, 7:34 AM PDT | Beach Hazards Statement | SGX | San Diego | 26 min |
| Oct 24, 11:28 AM PDT | Areal Flood Advisory | SGX | Orange | 2 hr |
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.