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Special Weather Statement, NWS San Diego, CA
NWS San Diego, CA issued this special weather statement at Jan 6, 2016, 11:08 PM PST for Orange County, California. It was in force for 37 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 6, 2016, 11:08 PM PST (07:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 6, 2016, 11:45 PM PST
- In force
- 37 min
- 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 07:10 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
San Diego, CA (KNKX), launched 00:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 119 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
- 505 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -33 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 63 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
695
WWUS86 KSGX 070708
SPSSGX
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN DIEGO CA
1108 PM PST WED JAN 6 2016
CAZ048-057-552-554-070745-
SANTA ANA MOUNTAINS-
INCLUDING THE TRABUCO RANGER DISTRICT OF THE CLEVELAND NATIONAL
FOREST CA-ORANGE COUNTY COASTAL CA-ORANGE COUNTY INLAND CA-
SAN BERNARDINO AND RIVERSIDE COUNTY VALLEYS-THE INLAND EMPIRE CA-
1108 PM PST WED JAN 6 2016
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR CENTRAL ORANGE AND RIVERSIDE
COUNTIES UNTIL 1145 PM PST...
AT 1107 PM PST...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM
OVER GARDEN GROVE...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.
DIME SIZE HAIL AND WINDS IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH
THIS STORM.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
ANAHEIM...SANTA ANA...IRVINE...HUNTINGTON BEACH...GARDEN GROVE...
SOUTHERN CORONA...ORANGE...COSTA MESA...MISSION VIEJO...TUSTIN...
STANTON...NEWPORT BEACH...WESTMINSTER...BUENA PARK...FOUNTAIN
VALLEY...RANCHO SANTA MARGARITA...LAGUNA WOODS...FOOTHILL RANCH...
SILVERADO AND ORTEGA HIGHWAY.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM...AND MAY LEAD
TO FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED ROADWAYS.
&&
LAT...LON 3384 11800 3385 11748 3358 11749 3365 11799
3366 11801
TIME...MOT...LOC 0707Z 273DEG 20KT 3375 11793
$$
JMBThe office that day
Everything else NWS San Diego, CA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 6, 4:58 PM PST | Areal Flood Advisory | SGX | Riverside, San Diego | 3 hr |
| Jan 6, 11:50 PM PST | Special Weather Statement | SGX | Orange | 55 min |
| Jan 7, 12:56 AM PST | Areal Flood Advisory | SGX | Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino | 3 hr |
| Jan 7, 4:03 AM PST | Special Weather Statement | SGX | San Diego | 42 min |
| Jan 7, 5:10 AM PST | Special Weather Statement | SGX | San Diego | 50 min |
| Jan 7, 5:42 AM PST | Areal Flood Advisory | SGX | San Diego | 2 hr |
| Jan 7, 11:58 AM PST | Winter Weather Advisory | SGX | Riverside | 10 hr |
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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.