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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 18, NWS San Diego, CA

September 29, 2022San Diego County, California

NWS San Diego, CA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 29, 2022, 1:58 PM PDT for San Diego County, California. It was in force for 62 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Sep 29, 2022, 1:58 PM PDT (20:58 UTC)
Expired
Sep 29, 2022, 3:00 PM PDT
In force
62 min
Issued by
NWS San Diego, CA
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
0.88 in
Wind
60.0 mph

County San Diego County, CA

The radar

The San Diego radar (KNKX), 28 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:57 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 47 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 2022-09-29Temperature 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 2022-09-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 24 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
2245 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
24 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-4 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 severe thunderstorm warning 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at Sep 28, 4:30 PM PDT, 21 hours 28 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 28, 4:30 PM PDT, 21 hours 28 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 28, 5:34 PM PDTAreal Flood AdvisorySGXSan Bernardino56 min
Sep 29, 12:19 PM PDTAreal Flood AdvisorySGXSan Diego117 min
Sep 29, 12:34 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementSGXSan Diego41 min
Sep 29, 1:45 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementSGXSan Diego45 min
Sep 29, 2:17 PM PDTAreal Flood AdvisorySGXSan Diego119 min

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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.