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High Surf Advisory 2, NWS San Diego, CA

March 3, 2022Orange County, San Diego County, California

NWS San Diego, CA issued this high surf advisory at Mar 3, 2022, 12:29 PM PST for Orange County, San Diego County, California. It took effect at Mar 4, 2022, 12:00 PM PST. It was in force for 48 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 3, 2022, 12:29 PM PST (20:29 UTC)
In effect from
Mar 4, 2022, 12:00 PM PST
Expired
Mar 6, 2022, 12:00 PM PST
In force
48 hr
Issued by
NWS San Diego, CA

Counties Orange County, CA, San Diego County, CA

The radar

The San Diego radar (KNKX), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:34 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 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 62 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 12:00Z on 2022-03-03Temperature 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 12:00Z on 2022-03-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 18 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
3037 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
18 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
70 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 high surf advisory 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 high surf advisory went out at Mar 3, 8:35 AM PST, 3 hours 54 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 3, 8:35 AM PST, 3 hours 54 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 3, 2:11 AM PSTSmall Craft AdvisorySGX3 days
Mar 3, 3:56 AM PSTWind AdvisorySGXSan Bernardino48 hr
Mar 3, 4:05 AM PSTWinter Storm WarningSGXRiverside, San Bernardino66 hr
Mar 3, 4:05 AM PSTWinter Weather AdvisorySGXSan Diego70 hr
Mar 3, 4:44 AM PSTDense Fog AdvisorySGXOrange, San Diego3 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.