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Wind Advisory 61, NWS Los Angeles, CA
NWS Los Angeles, CA issued this wind advisory at May 6, 2022, 10:36 PM PDT for San Luis Obispo County, Santa Barbara County, California. It took effect at May 7, 2022, 12:00 PM PDT. It was in force for 9 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 6, 2022, 10:36 PM PDT (05:36 UTC)
- In effect from
- May 7, 2022, 12:00 PM PDT
- Expired
- May 7, 2022, 9:00 PM PDT
- In force
- 9 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Los Angeles, CA
Counties San Luis Obispo County, CA, Santa Barbara County, CA
The radar
The Vandenberg AFB radar (KVBX), 20 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:42 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
Oakland, CA (KOAK), launched 00:00Z, 5.6 hours before the alert went out and 354 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 544 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 59 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 42 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 131 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 May 6, 4:55 PM PDT, 5 hours 41 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 6, 4:55 PM PDT, 5 hours 41 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Los Angeles, CA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 7, 4:58 AM PDT | High Wind Warning | LOX | Santa Barbara | 46 hr |
| May 7, 12:31 PM PDT | High Surf Advisory | LOX | San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Ventura | 37 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.