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Fire Weather Watch 2, NWS Los Angeles, CA

January 17, 2021Los Angeles County, California

NWS Los Angeles, CA issued this fire weather watch at Jan 17, 2021, 2:39 PM PST for Los Angeles County, California. It took effect at Jan 18, 2021, 10:00 PM PST. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jan 17, 2021, 2:39 PM PST (22:39 UTC)
In effect from: Jan 18, 2021, 10:00 PM PST
Expired: Jan 18, 2021, 11:40 AM PST
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 22:42 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 fire weather 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 fire weather watch went out at Jan 17, 1:57 PM PST, 42 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 17, 1:57 PM PST, 42 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 16, 6:42 PM PST	High Wind Watch	LOX	Los Angeles	33 hr
Jan 17, 2:30 AM PST	Gale Watch	LOX		32 hr

Nearby

Fire Weather Watches in California, 2021 Every fire weather watch in 2021

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.