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High Wind Watch 3, NWS Los Angeles, CA

February 15, 2017Los Angeles County, Santa Barbara County, California

NWS Los Angeles, CA issued this high wind watch at Feb 15, 2017, 2:02 PM PST for Los Angeles County, Santa Barbara County, California. It took effect at Feb 17, 2017, 4:00 AM PST. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Feb 15, 2017, 2:02 PM PST (22:02 UTC)
In effect from
Feb 17, 2017, 4:00 AM PST
Expired
Feb 16, 2017, 1:22 PM PST
In force
Issued by
NWS Los Angeles, CA

Counties Los Angeles County, CA, Santa Barbara County, CA

The radar

The Los Angeles radar (KVTX), 6 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:07 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.

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 Feb 15, 1:55 PM PST, 7 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 15, 1:55 PM PST, 7 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 15, 3:00 AM PSTSmall Craft AdvisoryLOX18 hr
Feb 15, 3:24 AM PSTDense Fog AdvisoryLOX6 hr
Feb 15, 1:43 PM PSTFlash Flood WatchLOXLos Angeles, Santa Barbara68 hr
Feb 15, 1:43 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchLOX24 hr
Feb 15, 2:23 PM PSTGale WatchLOX15 hr
Feb 15, 2:23 PM PSTSmall Craft AdvisoryLOX15 hr
Feb 15, 3:13 PM PSTHigh Surf AdvisoryLOXLos Angeles8 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.