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Special Weather Statement, NWS Eureka, CA

August 6, 2017Trinity County, California

NWS Eureka, CA issued this special weather statement at Aug 6, 2017, 2:33 PM PDT for Trinity County, California. It was in force for 12 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 6, 2017, 2:33 PM PDT (21:33 UTC)
Expired
Aug 6, 2017, 2:45 PM PDT
In force
12 min
Issued by
NWS Eureka, CA

County Trinity County, CA

The radar

The Eureka (Bunker Hill) radar (KBHX), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:34 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

Medford/Jackson, OR (KMFR), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 206 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, Medford/Jackson, OR at 12:00Z on 2017-08-06Temperature 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°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Medford/Jackson, OR at 12:00Z on 2017-08-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 10 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
2593 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
4 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
10 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
54 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

519 
WWUS86 KEKA 062133
SPSEKA

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Eureka CA
233 PM PDT SUN AUG 6 2017
 
CAZ108-062145-
Southern Trinity CA-
233 PM PDT SUN AUG 6 2017

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTHERN TRINITY COUNTY UNTIL 245
PM PDT...

At 232 PM PDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near
Hayfork, moving east at 10 mph.

Half inch to dime size hail will be possible with this storm.

Locations impacted may include...
Hayfork.

LAT...LON 4052 12315 4056 12314 4057 12305 4050 12308
TIME...MOT...LOC 2132Z 262DEG 7KT 4055 12308 

$$
KR

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 6, 2:18 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementEKATrinity12 min
Aug 6, 2:48 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementEKA12 min
Aug 6, 2:54 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementEKATrinity21 min
Aug 6, 2:58 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementEKATrinity17 min
Aug 6, 3:08 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementEKATrinity22 min
Aug 6, 3:16 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementEKAGlenn14 min
Aug 6, 3:32 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementEKATrinity13 min
Aug 6, 3:37 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementEKA8 min
Aug 6, 3:49 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementEKATrinity11 min
Aug 6, 4:04 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementEKASiskiyou26 min
Aug 6, 4:16 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementEKATrinity14 min
Aug 6, 4:39 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementEKASiskiyou21 min
Aug 6, 4:53 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementEKATrinity22 min
Aug 6, 4:57 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementEKASiskiyou33 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.