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High Surf Advisory 12, NWS San Diego, CA

June 13, 2016Orange County, California

NWS San Diego, CA issued this high surf advisory at Jun 13, 2016, 7:14 PM PDT for Orange County, California. It took effect at Jun 15, 2016, 6:00 AM PDT. It was in force for 63 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 13, 2016, 7:14 PM PDT (02:14 UTC)
In effect from
Jun 15, 2016, 6:00 AM PDT
Expired
Jun 17, 2016, 9:00 PM PDT
In force
63 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 02:14 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 00:00Z, 2.2 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, San Diego, CA at 00:00Z on 2016-06-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, San Diego, CA at 00:00Z on 2016-06-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -18 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1050 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-18 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-25 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

Everything else NWS San Diego, CA issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 13, 7:14 PM PDTBeach Hazards StatementSGXOrange, San Diego4 days
Jun 14, 1:15 PM PDTExcessive Heat WatchSGXOrange, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego48 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.