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Red Flag Warning 6, NWS Los Angeles, CA

October 28, 2019Los Angeles County, California

NWS Los Angeles, CA issued this red flag warning at Oct 28, 2019, 1:14 PM PDT for Los Angeles County, California. It took effect at Oct 29, 2019, 11:00 PM PDT. It was in force for 4 days. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Oct 28, 2019, 1:14 PM PDT (20:14 UTC)
In effect from
Oct 29, 2019, 11:00 PM PDT
Expired
Nov 2, 2019, 6:00 PM PDT
In force
4 days
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 20:20 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 12:00Z, 8.2 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 2019-10-28Temperature 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 12:00Z on 2019-10-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -24 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1133 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-24 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-107 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 red flag warning 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 red flag warning went out at Oct 28, 10:43 AM PDT, 2 hours 31 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 28, 10:43 AM PDT, 2 hours 31 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 28, 3:11 AM PDTFreeze WatchLOX11 hr
Oct 28, 1:46 PM PDTGale WatchLOX19 hr
Oct 28, 2:14 PM PDTFrost AdvisoryLOX18 hr
Oct 28, 2:14 PM PDTFreeze WatchLOX24 hr
Oct 28, 2:14 PM PDTHigh Wind WatchLOXLos Angeles19 hr
Oct 28, 2:14 PM PDTHard Freeze WatchLOX24 hr

Nearby

Red Flag Warnings in California, 2019Every red flag warning in 2019

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.