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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 11, NWS San Diego, CA

September 4, 2019San Diego County, California

NWS San Diego, CA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 4, 2019, 1:31 PM PDT for San Diego County, California. It was in force for 59 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Sep 4, 2019, 1:31 PM PDT (20:31 UTC)
Expired
Sep 4, 2019, 2:30 PM PDT
In force
59 min
Issued by
NWS San Diego, CA
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
0.75 in
Wind
60.0 mph

County San Diego County, CA

The radar

The San Diego radar (KNKX), 28 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:34 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, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 47 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 2019-09-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 124 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 2019-09-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -35 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
124 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-638 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1707 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-35 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
18 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS San Diego, CA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Sep 4, 10:00 AM PDT, 3 hours 31 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 4, 10:00 AM PDT, 3 hours 31 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 4, 1:48 PM PDTFlash Flood WarningSGXSan Diego94 min
Sep 4, 2:33 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementSGXSan Diego57 min
Sep 4, 2:44 PM PDTBeach Hazards StatementSGXSan Diego2 hr
Sep 4, 3:12 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementSGXSan Diego63 min
Sep 4, 3:18 PM PDTFlash Flood WarningSGXRiverside, San Diego65 min
Sep 4, 3:19 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGXRiverside, San Diego56 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in California, 2019Every severe thunderstorm 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.