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Winter Weather Advisory 13, NWS Eureka, CA

December 8, 2022Trinity County, California

NWS Eureka, CA issued this winter weather advisory at Dec 8, 2022, 9:31 AM PST for Trinity County, California. It took effect at Dec 9, 2022, 4:00 PM PST. It was in force for 12 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Dec 8, 2022, 9:31 AM PST (17:31 UTC)
In effect from
Dec 9, 2022, 4:00 PM PST
Expired
Dec 10, 2022, 4:00 AM PST
In force
12 hr
Issued by
NWS Eureka, CA

County Trinity County, CA

The radar

The Eureka (Bunker Hill) radar (KBHX), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:31 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, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 193 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, Medford/Jackson, OR at 12:00Z on 2022-12-08Temperature 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, Medford/Jackson, OR at 12:00Z on 2022-12-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 114 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
1071 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
114 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
233 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 winter weather advisory 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 weather advisory went out at Dec 7, 2:43 PM PST, 18 hours 48 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 7, 2:43 PM PST, 18 hours 48 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Dec 8, 2:37 AM PSTGale WarningEKA52 hr
Dec 8, 2:37 AM PSTStorm WarningEKA49 hr
Dec 8, 2:52 AM PSTWind AdvisoryEKADel Norte, Humboldt, Lake, Mendocino52 hr
Dec 8, 9:01 AM PSTHigh Wind WarningEKADel Norte, Humboldt, Trinity43 hr
Dec 8, 9:31 AM PSTWinter Storm WarningEKA53 hr
Dec 8, 9:33 AM PSTSmall Craft AdvisoryEKA27 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.