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Freeze Warning 2, NWS Eureka, CA

March 7, 2019Mendocino County, California

NWS Eureka, CA issued this freeze warning at Mar 7, 2019, 3:15 PM PST for Mendocino County, California. It took effect at Mar 8, 2019, 12:00 AM PST. It was in force for 8 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 7, 2019, 3:15 PM PST (23:15 UTC)
In effect from
Mar 8, 2019, 12:00 AM PST
Expired
Mar 8, 2019, 8:00 AM PST
In force
8 hr
Issued by
NWS Eureka, CA

County Mendocino County, CA

The radar

The Eureka (Bunker Hill) radar (KBHX), 139 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:15 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

Oakland, CA (KOAK), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 218 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, Oakland, CA at 12:00Z on 2019-03-07Temperature 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, Oakland, CA at 12:00Z on 2019-03-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 19 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
750 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
19 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
44 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

658 
WWUS76 KEKA 072315
NPWEKA

URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Eureka CA
315 PM PST Thu Mar 7 2019

CAZ110-111-081215-
/O.UPG.KEKA.FZ.A.0001.190308T0800Z-190308T1600Z/
/O.NEW.KEKA.FZ.W.0002.190308T0800Z-190308T1600Z/
Northwestern Mendocino Interior-Northeastern Mendocino Interior-
315 PM PST Thu Mar 7 2019

...FREEZE WARNING IN EFFECT FROM MIDNIGHT TONIGHT TO 8 AM PST
FRIDAY...

The National Weather Service in Eureka has issued a Freeze
Warning...which is in effect from midnight tonight to 8 AM PST
Friday. The Freeze Watch is no longer in effect. 

* LOW TEMPERATURES...Upper 20s to lower 30s.

* LOCATIONS INCLUDE...Leggett, Laytonville, Willits, Covelo.

* FOR A DETAILED VIEW OF THE HAZARD AREA...visit 
  http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/map

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

A Freeze Warning means sub-freezing temperatures are imminent or
highly likely. These conditions will kill crops and other
sensitive vegetation.

&&

$$

CAZ109-112-113-081215-
/O.CON.KEKA.FR.Y.0002.190308T0800Z-190308T1600Z/
Mendocino Coast-Southwestern Mendocino Interior-
Southeastern Mendocino Interior-
315 PM PST Thu Mar 7 2019

...FROST ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM MIDNIGHT TONIGHT TO 8 AM
PST FRIDAY...

* LOW TEMPERATURES...mid 30s.

* LOCATIONS INCLUDE...Boonville, Comptche, Ukiah, Hopland.

* FOR A DETAILED VIEW OF THE HAZARD AREA...visit 
  http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/map

$$
2 follow-up statements
284 
WWUS76 KEKA 081142
NPWEKA

URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Eureka CA
342 AM PST Fri Mar 8 2019

CAZ110-111-081600-
/O.CON.KEKA.FZ.W.0002.000000T0000Z-190308T1600Z/
Northwestern Mendocino Interior-Northeastern Mendocino Interior-
342 AM PST Fri Mar 8 2019

...FREEZE WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 AM THIS MORNING...

* LOW TEMPERATURES...Upper 20s to lower 30s.

* LOCATIONS INCLUDE...Leggett, Laytonville, Willits, and Covelo.

* FOR A DETAILED VIEW OF THE HAZARD AREA...visit 
  http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/map

$$

CAZ109-112-113-081600-
/O.CON.KEKA.FR.Y.0002.000000T0000Z-190308T1600Z/
Mendocino Coast-Southwestern Mendocino Interior-
Southeastern Mendocino Interior-
342 AM PST Fri Mar 8 2019

...FROST ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 AM THIS MORNING...

* LOW TEMPERATURES...Mid 30s.

* LOCATIONS INCLUDE...Boonville, Comptche, Ukiah, and Hopland.

* FOR A DETAILED VIEW OF THE HAZARD AREA...visit 
  http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/map

$$
109 
WWUS76 KEKA 081544
NPWEKA

URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Eureka CA
744 AM PST Fri Mar 8 2019

...A Frosty Start to the Morning in Mendocino County...

CAZ110-111-081645-
/O.EXP.KEKA.FZ.W.0002.000000T0000Z-190308T1600Z/
Northwestern Mendocino Interior-Northeastern Mendocino Interior-
744 AM PST Fri Mar 8 2019

...FREEZE WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 8 AM PST THIS MORNING...

While temperatures have bottomed out in the upper 20s to low 30s
early this morning, readings will begin to rise quickly with at
least partly sunny skies. 

$$

CAZ109-112-113-081645-
/O.EXP.KEKA.FR.Y.0002.000000T0000Z-190308T1600Z/
Mendocino Coast-Southwestern Mendocino Interior-
Southeastern Mendocino Interior-
744 AM PST Fri Mar 8 2019

...FROST ADVISORY WILL EXPIRE AT 8 AM PST THIS MORNING...

While temperatures have bottomed out in the low to mid 30s early 
this morning, readings will begin to rise quickly with at least 
partly sunny skies. 

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 7, 3:17 AM PSTFrost AdvisoryEKAMendocino29 hr
Mar 7, 3:17 AM PSTFreeze WatchEKAMendocino12 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.