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Flood Watch 2, NWS San Diego, CA

July 30, 2022Riverside County, San Bernardino County, San Diego County, California

NWS San Diego, CA issued this flood watch at Jul 30, 2022, 12:30 AM PDT for Riverside County, San Bernardino County, San Diego County, California. It took effect at Jul 30, 2022, 11:00 AM PDT. It was in force for 12 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 30, 2022, 12:30 AM PDT (07:30 UTC)
In effect from
Jul 30, 2022, 11:00 AM PDT
Expired
Jul 30, 2022, 11:00 PM PDT
In force
12 hr
Issued by
NWS San Diego, CA
Flood severity
None

Counties Riverside County, CA, San Bernardino County, CA, San Diego County, CA

The radar

The Santa Ana Mts radar (KSOX), 122 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:30 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 00:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 145 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 2022-07-30Temperature 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 2022-07-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -34 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
1980 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-34 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
47 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 flood watch went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS San Diego, CA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flood watch went out at Jul 29, 9:34 PM PDT, 2 hours 56 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 29, 9:34 PM PDT, 2 hours 56 minutes before
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The office that day

Everything else NWS San Diego, CA issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 29, 9:03 PM PDTBeach Hazards StatementSGXOrange, San Diego5 days
Jul 30, 1:05 PM PDTAreal Flood AdvisorySGXSan Bernardino115 min
Jul 30, 3:45 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementSGX45 min
Jul 30, 4:22 PM PDTAreal Flood AdvisorySGXSan Bernardino100 min
Jul 30, 4:31 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementSGX44 min
Jul 30, 4:46 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGXSan Bernardino30 min
Jul 30, 4:58 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGXSan Bernardino47 min

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.