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Winter Storm Watch 5, NWS Eureka, CA
NWS Eureka, CA issued this winter storm watch at Dec 2, 2022, 4:13 AM PST for 5 counties in California. It took effect at Dec 3, 2022, 10:00 AM PST. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 2, 2022, 4:13 AM PST (12:13 UTC)
- In effect from
- Dec 3, 2022, 10:00 AM PST
- Expired
- Dec 2, 2022, 12:00 PM PST
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Eureka, CA
Counties Del Norte County, CA, Humboldt County, CA, Lake County, CA, Mendocino County, CA, Trinity County, CA
The radar
The Eureka (Bunker Hill) radar (KBHX), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:18 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
Medford/Jackson, OR (KMFR), launched 12:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 233 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
- 933 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 107 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 167 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 Dec 1, 2:29 PM PST, 13 hours 44 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Dec 1, 2:29 PM PST, 13 hours 44 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Dec 2, 4:11 AM PST, 2 minutes before
Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Eureka CA 411 AM PST Fri Dec 2 2022 CAZ101-103-109-031215- Coastal Del Norte-Northern Humboldt Coast-Mendocino Coast- 411 AM PST Fri Dec 2 2022 ...FREEZE WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 AM PST THIS MORNING... This hazardous weather outlook is for northwest California. .DAY ONE...Today and tonight. A Freeze Warning is currently in effect. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Saturday through Thursday. No hazardous weather is expected at this time. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not expected at this time. CAZ104-110-112-113-115-031215- Southwestern Humboldt-Northwestern Mendocino Interior- Southwestern Mendocino Interior-Southeastern Mendocino Interior- Southern Lake- 411 AM PST Fri Dec 2 2022 This hazardous weather outlook is for northwest California. .DAY ONE...Today and tonight. No hazardous weather is expected at this time. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Saturday through Thursday. No hazardous weather is expected at this time. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not expected at this time. CAZ102-105>108-111-114-031215- Del Norte Interior-Northern Humboldt Interior- Southern Humboldt Interior-Northern Trinity-Southern Trinity- Northeastern Mendocino Interior-Northern Lake- 411 AM PST Fri Dec 2 2022 ...WINTER STORM WATCH IN EFFECT FROM SATURDAY MORNING THROUGH SUNDAY AFTERNOON... This hazardous weather outlook is for northwest California. .DAY ONE...Today and tonight. No hazardous weather is expected at this time. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Saturday through Thursday. A Winter Storm Watch is currently in effect. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not expected at this time.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Eureka, CA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 2, 8:57 AM PST | Gale Warning | EKA | 34 hr | |
| Dec 2, 12:00 PM PST | Winter Weather Advisory | EKA | Trinity | 3 days |
| Dec 2, 2:17 PM PST | Small Craft Advisory | EKA | 48 hr |
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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.