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High Wind Watch 7, NWS Los Angeles, CA

October 23, 2020Los Angeles County, California

NWS Los Angeles, CA issued this high wind watch at Oct 23, 2020, 2:16 PM PDT for Los Angeles County, California. It took effect at Oct 26, 2020, 12:00 AM PDT. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Oct 23, 2020, 2:16 PM PDT (21:16 UTC)
In effect from
Oct 26, 2020, 12:00 AM PDT
Expired
Oct 24, 2020, 1:43 PM PDT
In force
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 21:16 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this high wind watch 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 high wind watch went out at Oct 23, 11:37 AM PDT, 2 hours 39 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 23, 11:37 AM PDT, 2 hours 39 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 23, 2:31 PM PDTFire Weather WatchLOXLos Angeles23 hr

Nearby

High Wind Watches in California, 2020Every high wind 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.