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Wind Advisory 50, NWS Los Angeles, CA

April 18, 2022Santa Barbara County, Ventura County, California

NWS Los Angeles, CA issued this wind advisory at Apr 18, 2022, 2:26 PM PDT for Santa Barbara County, Ventura County, California. It took effect at Apr 19, 2022, 2:00 PM PDT. It was in force for 13 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 18, 2022, 2:26 PM PDT (21:26 UTC)
In effect from: Apr 19, 2022, 2:00 PM PDT
Expired: Apr 20, 2022, 3:00 AM PDT
In force: 13 hr
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 21:31 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

Vandenberg AFB, CA (KVBG), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 90 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1910 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -60 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 92 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 wind advisory 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 wind advisory went out at Apr 18, 2:09 PM PDT, 17 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 18, 2:09 PM PDT, 17 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
Apr 18, 2:41 AM PDT	Gale Warning	LOX		24 hr
Apr 18, 2:41 AM PDT	Small Craft Advisory	LOX		3 days
Apr 18, 6:05 AM PDT	Wind Advisory	LOX	Santa Barbara, Ventura	21 hr
Apr 18, 9:01 AM PDT	Gale Watch	LOX		18 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.