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Wind Advisory 98, NWS Los Angeles, CA
NWS Los Angeles, CA issued this wind advisory at Aug 12, 2022, 10:43 AM PDT for Santa Barbara County, California. It took effect at Aug 12, 2022, 7:00 PM PDT. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 12, 2022, 10:43 AM PDT (17:43 UTC)
- In effect from
- Aug 12, 2022, 7:00 PM PDT
- Expired
- Aug 13, 2022, 3:00 AM PDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Los Angeles, CA
County Santa Barbara County, CA
The radar
The Vandenberg AFB radar (KVBX), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:44 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
San Diego, CA (KNKX), launched 12:00Z, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 326 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
- 3111 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 5 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 46 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Los Angeles, CA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 11, 7:43 PM PDT | Wind Advisory | LOX | Santa Barbara | 13 hr |
| Aug 12, 4:28 AM PDT | Gale Watch | LOX | 23 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.