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Frost Advisory 6, NWS Los Angeles, CA

February 23, 2018Los Angeles County, California

NWS Los Angeles, CA issued this frost advisory at Feb 23, 2018, 2:06 PM PST for Los Angeles County, California. It took effect at Feb 24, 2018, 1:00 AM PST. It was in force for 8 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Feb 23, 2018, 2:06 PM PST (22:06 UTC)
In effect from
Feb 24, 2018, 1:00 AM PST
Expired
Feb 24, 2018, 9:00 AM PST
In force
8 hr
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 22:05 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

San Diego, CA (KNKX), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 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 12:00Z on 2018-02-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 18 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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 12:00Z on 2018-02-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 40 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
18 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
927 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
56 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
40 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
154 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 frost advisory 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 frost advisory went out at Feb 23, 1:38 PM PST, 28 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 23, 1:38 PM PST, 28 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 22, 8:05 PM PSTFreeze WatchLOX18 hr
Feb 22, 8:06 PM PSTWinter Weather AdvisoryLOX14 hr
Feb 23, 4:51 AM PSTHard Freeze WatchLOX9 hr
Feb 23, 2:06 PM PSTFreeze WarningLOX19 hr
Feb 23, 2:06 PM PSTHard Freeze WarningLOX19 hr

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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.