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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 5, NWS Eureka, CA

August 9, 2017Mendocino County, California

NWS Eureka, CA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 9, 2017, 2:50 PM PDT for Mendocino County, California. It was in force for 25 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: Aug 9, 2017, 2:50 PM PDT (21:50 UTC)
Expired: Aug 9, 2017, 3:15 PM PDT
In force: 25 min
Issued by: NWS Eureka, CA
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 50.0 mph

County Mendocino County, CA

The radar

The Beale AFB radar (KBBX), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:51 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

Oakland, CA (KOAK), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 223 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 797 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 5 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 3 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 17 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted.

295 
WUUS56 KEKA 092150
SVREKA
CAC045-092215-
/O.NEW.KEKA.SV.W.0005.170809T2150Z-170809T2215Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service Eureka CA
250 PM PDT WED AUG 9 2017

The National Weather Service in Eureka California has issued a

* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
  East central Mendocino County in northwestern California...

* Until 315 PM PDT

* At 249 PM PDT, a severe thunderstorm was located 12 miles west of
  Alder Springs, and is nearly stationary.

  HAZARD...Quarter size hail. 

  SOURCE...Radar indicated. 

  IMPACT...Damage to vehicles is expected. 

* This severe thunderstorm will remain over mainly rural areas of
  east central Mendocino County.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.

&&

LAT...LON 3953 12292 3953 12294 3952 12296 3967 12308
      3980 12295 3980 12294 3975 12294 3975 12291
      3971 12291 3971 12289 3954 12289
TIME...MOT...LOC 2149Z 221DEG 2KT 3963 12296 

HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...<50MPH
 
$$

RCL

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 8, 5:26 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	EKA	Trinity	34 min
Aug 8, 5:52 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	EKA	Trinity	23 min
Aug 8, 6:51 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	EKA		24 min
Aug 8, 7:14 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	EKA		31 min
Aug 9, 1:32 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	EKA		43 min
Aug 9, 1:50 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EKA	Mendocino, Trinity	23 min
Aug 9, 2:28 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EKA	Trinity	32 min
Aug 9, 2:34 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	EKA	Mendocino	26 min
Aug 9, 2:40 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	EKA	Trinity	35 min
Aug 9, 2:52 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	EKA	Trinity	23 min
Aug 9, 3:05 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EKA	Trinity	25 min
Aug 9, 3:10 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EKA	Mendocino	35 min
Aug 9, 3:23 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	EKA	Trinity	22 min
Aug 9, 3:43 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	EKA	Mendocino	32 min
Aug 9, 3:47 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	EKA	Trinity	28 min
Aug 9, 3:50 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	EKA	Trinity	25 min
Aug 9, 4:09 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	EKA	Mendocino	36 min
Aug 9, 4:12 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	EKA	Trinity	33 min
Aug 9, 4:41 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	EKA	Trinity	34 min

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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.