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High Wind Watch 9, NWS Los Angeles, CA

May 11, 2022Santa Barbara County, Ventura County, California

NWS Los Angeles, CA issued this high wind watch at May 11, 2022, 1:14 PM PDT for Santa Barbara County, Ventura County, California. It took effect at May 12, 2022, 10:00 PM PDT. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 11, 2022, 1:14 PM PDT (20:14 UTC)
In effect from: May 12, 2022, 10:00 PM PDT
Expired: May 12, 2022, 3:14 AM PDT
In force
Issued by: NWS Los Angeles, CA

Counties Santa Barbara County, CA, Ventura County, CA

The radar

The Los Angeles radar (KVTX), 37 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:17 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.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this high wind 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 high wind watch went out at May 10, 2:34 PM PDT, 22 hours 40 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 10, 2:34 PM PDT, 22 hours 40 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
May 10, 8:45 PM PDT	Small Craft Advisory	LOX		30 hr
May 11, 2:23 AM PDT	Gale Warning	LOX		24 hr
May 11, 2:23 AM PDT	Small Craft Advisory	LOX		24 hr
May 11, 3:05 AM PDT	Wind Advisory	LOX	Los Angeles, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Ventura	24 hr
May 11, 1:55 PM PDT	Frost Advisory	LOX	San Luis Obispo	19 hr

Nearby

High Wind Watches in California, 2022 Every high wind watch in 2022

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.