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Wind Advisory 25, NWS Los Angeles, CA

March 4, 2022Los Angeles County, California

NWS Los Angeles, CA issued this wind advisory at Mar 4, 2022, 2:11 AM PST for Los Angeles County, California. It took effect at Mar 4, 2022, 12:00 PM PST. It was in force for 63 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 4, 2022, 2:11 AM PST (10:11 UTC)
In effect from
Mar 4, 2022, 12:00 PM PST
Expired
Mar 7, 2022, 3:00 AM PST
In force
63 hr
Issued by
NWS Los Angeles, CA

County Los Angeles County, CA

The radar

The Santa Ana Mts radar (KSOX), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:12 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, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 184 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 2022-03-04Temperature 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 00:00Z on 2022-03-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 48 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
1622 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
48 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
44 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 3, 7:13 PM PSTGale WarningLOX56 hr
Mar 3, 11:56 PM PSTSpecial Weather StatementLOXLos Angeles64 min
Mar 4, 1:48 AM PSTSpecial Weather StatementLOXLos Angeles57 min
Mar 4, 1:59 AM PSTSpecial Weather StatementLOXLos Angeles46 min

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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.