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Winter Storm Watch 1, NWS Eureka, CA
NWS Eureka, CA issued this winter storm watch at Jan 13, 2020, 2:16 PM PST for 4 counties in California. It took effect at Jan 15, 2020, 4:00 PM PST. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 13, 2020, 2:16 PM PST (22:16 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 15, 2020, 4:00 PM PST
- Expired
- Jan 14, 2020, 2:26 PM PST
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Eureka, CA
Counties Del Norte County, CA, Humboldt County, CA, Mendocino County, CA, Trinity County, CA
The radar
The Eureka (Bunker Hill) radar (KBHX), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:16 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
Medford/Jackson, OR (KMFR), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 204 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
- 941 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 78 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 236 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 394 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this winter storm watch went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Eureka, CA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this winter storm watch went out at Jan 13, 4:41 AM PST, 9 hours 35 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 13, 4:41 AM PST, 9 hours 35 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Eureka, CA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 13, 2:51 AM PST | Gale Watch | EKA | 24 hr |
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Winter Storm Watches in California, 2020Every winter storm watch in 2020
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.