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Areal Flood Advisory 28, NWS San Diego, CA

July 31, 2021San Diego County, California

NWS San Diego, CA issued this areal flood advisory at Jul 31, 2021, 1:30 PM PDT for San Diego County, California. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 31, 2021, 1:30 PM PDT (20:30 UTC)
Expired
Jul 31, 2021, 4:30 PM PDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS San Diego, CA
Area
Storm-based polygon

County San Diego County, CA

The radar

The San Diego radar (KNKX), 28 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:33 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 2021-07-31Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 2021-07-31The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 8 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
2352 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
4 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
8 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
26 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 areal flood advisory 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 areal flood advisory went out at Jul 31, 9:27 AM PDT, 4 hours 3 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 31, 9:27 AM PDT, 4 hours 3 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 31, 12:43 PM PDTAreal Flood AdvisorySGXRiverside, San Bernardino3 hr
Jul 31, 1:14 PM PDTAreal Flood AdvisorySGXRiverside, San Diego5 hr
Jul 31, 1:39 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementSGXSan Diego51 min
Jul 31, 2:49 PM PDTAreal Flood AdvisorySGXSan Bernardino3 hr

Nearby

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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.