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Wind Advisory 23, NWS Los Angeles, CA
NWS Los Angeles, CA issued this wind advisory at Mar 5, 2019, 4:08 AM PST for Santa Barbara County, California. It took effect at Mar 5, 2019, 6:31 PM PST. It was in force for 17 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 5, 2019, 4:08 AM PST (12:08 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 5, 2019, 6:31 PM PST
- Expired
- Mar 6, 2019, 12:00 PM PST
- In force
- 17 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 12:10 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, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 326 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1725 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 48 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 116 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Los Angeles, CA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 4, 8:16 PM PST | Small Craft Advisory | LOX | 43 hr | |
| Mar 5, 2:08 AM PST | Gale Warning | LOX | 25 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.