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High Wind Warning 12, NWS Los Angeles, CA

April 11, 2022Los Angeles County, Santa Barbara County, Ventura County, California

NWS Los Angeles, CA issued this high wind warning at Apr 11, 2022, 3:54 AM PDT for Los Angeles County, Santa Barbara County, Ventura County, California. It took effect at Apr 11, 2022, 6:00 PM PDT. It was in force for 16 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 11, 2022, 3:54 AM PDT (10:54 UTC)
In effect from
Apr 11, 2022, 6:00 PM PDT
Expired
Apr 12, 2022, 10:00 AM PDT
In force
16 hr
Issued by
NWS Los Angeles, CA

Counties Los Angeles County, CA, Santa Barbara County, CA, Ventura County, CA

The radar

The Los Angeles radar (KVTX), 6 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:51 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

San Diego, CA (KNKX), launched 00:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 250 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 00:00Z on 2022-04-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 2022-04-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -21 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
704 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-21 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
76 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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.