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Wind Advisory 14, NWS Los Angeles, CA
NWS Los Angeles, CA issued this wind advisory at Feb 4, 2019, 3:09 PM PST for Santa Barbara County, California. It was in force for 19 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 4, 2019, 3:09 PM PST (23:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 5, 2019, 10:36 AM PST
- In force
- 19 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Los Angeles, CA
County Santa Barbara County, CA
The radar
The Vandenberg AFB radar (KVBX), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:11 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
Vandenberg AFB, CA (KVBG), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 48 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -13 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 833 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 112 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 678 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 896 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this wind 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 wind advisory went out at Feb 4, 2:25 PM PST, 44 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 4, 2:25 PM PST, 44 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Los Angeles, CA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 4, 3:38 AM PST | Wind Advisory | LOX | Santa Barbara | 41 hr |
| Feb 4, 5:07 AM PST | Areal Flood Advisory | LOX | San Luis Obispo | 82 min |
| Feb 4, 5:10 AM PST | Special Weather Statement | LOX | Santa Barbara | 50 min |
| Feb 4, 5:56 AM PST | Areal Flood Advisory | LOX | Santa Barbara | 94 min |
| Feb 4, 6:05 AM PST | Special Marine Warning | LOX | 55 min | |
| Feb 4, 6:41 AM PST | Special Weather Statement | LOX | Santa Barbara | 49 min |
| Feb 4, 7:54 AM PST | Areal Flood Advisory | LOX | Ventura | 111 min |
| Feb 4, 8:29 AM PST | Special Marine Warning | LOX | 31 min | |
| Feb 4, 9:20 AM PST | Areal Flood Advisory | LOX | Los Angeles | 3 hr |
| Feb 4, 9:27 AM PST | Flash Flood Warning | LOX | Los Angeles, Ventura | 2 hr |
| Feb 4, 11:12 AM PST | Beach Hazards Statement | LOX | Los Angeles | 53 hr |
| Feb 4, 11:12 AM PST | High Surf Advisory | LOX | 53 hr | |
| Feb 4, 12:15 PM PST | Areal Flood Advisory | LOX | Los Angeles | 2 hr |
| Feb 4, 1:24 PM PST | Winter Weather Advisory | LOX | Santa Barbara | 37 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.