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Special Weather Statement, NWS Eureka, CA

August 8, 2017Trinity County, California

NWS Eureka, CA issued this special weather statement at Aug 8, 2017, 3:22 PM PDT for Trinity County, California. It was in force for 23 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 8, 2017, 3:22 PM PDT (22:22 UTC)
Expired: Aug 8, 2017, 3:45 PM PDT
In force: 23 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 22:25 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Medford/Jackson, OR (KMFR), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 241 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: 77 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -482 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1734 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 2 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -3 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 42 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Eureka, CA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this special weather statement went out at Aug 8, 4:08 AM PDT, 11 hours 14 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 8, 4:08 AM PDT, 11 hours 14 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 8, 3:41 AM PDT, 11 hours 41 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 8, 3:22 PM PDT, 0 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 7, 5:04 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	EKA		11 min
Aug 7, 5:16 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	EKA	Trinity	29 min
Aug 7, 5:25 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	EKA	Trinity	35 min
Aug 7, 5:37 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	EKA	Trinity	23 min
Aug 7, 5:55 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	EKA	Trinity	35 min
Aug 7, 6:27 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	EKA		33 min
Aug 7, 8:15 PM PDT	Fire Weather Watch	EKA		7 hr
Aug 8, 3:22 AM PDT	Red Flag Warning	EKA		17 hr
Aug 8, 3:34 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	EKA		26 min
Aug 8, 3:49 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	EKA	Trinity	26 min
Aug 8, 3:52 PM PDT	Red Flag Warning	EKA		28 hr
Aug 8, 3:58 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	EKA		32 min
Aug 8, 4:12 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	EKA	Trinity	33 min
Aug 8, 4:35 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	EKA	Glenn	25 min
Aug 8, 4:42 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	EKA	Trinity	18 min

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.