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Red Flag Warning 3, NWS Los Angeles, CA

November 18, 2022Los Angeles County, Ventura County, California

NWS Los Angeles, CA issued this red flag warning at Nov 18, 2022, 10:01 AM PST for Los Angeles County, Ventura County, California. It took effect at Nov 19, 2022, 1:00 AM PST. It was in force for 33 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
Nov 18, 2022, 10:01 AM PST (18:01 UTC)
In effect from
Nov 19, 2022, 1:00 AM PST
Expired
Nov 20, 2022, 10:00 AM PST
In force
33 hr
Issued by
NWS Los Angeles, CA

Counties Los Angeles County, CA, Ventura County, CA

The radar

The Los Angeles radar (KVTX), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:59 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, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 215 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 2022-11-18Temperature 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 2022-11-18The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 34 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
3457 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
34 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
44 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 red flag warning 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 red flag warning went out at Nov 18, 9:45 AM PST, 16 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Nov 18, 9:45 AM PST, 16 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Nov 17, 8:11 PM PSTHigh Wind WatchLOXLos Angeles9 hr
Nov 18, 3:31 AM PSTGale WarningLOX34 hr
Nov 18, 5:34 AM PSTHigh Wind WarningLOXLos Angeles32 hr
Nov 18, 5:34 AM PSTWind AdvisoryLOXLos Angeles, Ventura51 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.