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High Wind Watch 1, NWS Los Angeles, CA

January 26, 2017Los Angeles County, California

NWS Los Angeles, CA issued this high wind watch at Jan 26, 2017, 1:47 AM PST for Los Angeles County, California. It took effect at Jan 27, 2017, 4:00 AM PST. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jan 26, 2017, 1:47 AM PST (09:47 UTC)
In effect from
Jan 27, 2017, 4:00 AM PST
Expired
Jan 26, 2017, 2:48 PM PST
In force
Issued by
NWS Los Angeles, CA

County Los Angeles County, CA

The radar

The Santa Ana Mts radar (KSOX), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:45 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, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 184 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 2017-01-26Temperature 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 2017-01-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -67 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
1256 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-67 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-28 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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What forecasters said that day

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

NWS Los Angeles, CA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this high wind watch went out at Jan 25, 10:33 PM PST, 3 hours 14 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 25, 10:33 PM PST, 3 hours 14 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 25, 8:09 PM PSTSmall Craft AdvisoryLOX13 hr
Jan 25, 8:12 PM PSTHard Freeze WarningLOXSanta Barbara13 hr
Jan 26, 1:47 AM PSTFreeze WatchLOXSanta Barbara296 days
Jan 26, 2:13 AM PSTSmall Craft Advisory for Hazardous SeasLOX42 hr
Jan 26, 2:48 PM PSTFrost AdvisoryLOX17 hr
Jan 26, 2:48 PM PSTFreeze WarningLOX17 hr
Jan 26, 2:48 PM PSTHigh Wind WarningLOXLos Angeles45 hr
Jan 26, 2:48 PM PSTWind AdvisoryLOXLos Angeles3 days

Nearby

High Wind Watches in California, 2017Every high wind watch in 2017

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.