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Beach Hazards Statement 12, NWS Los Angeles, CA

September 1, 2023Los Angeles County, Ventura County, California

NWS Los Angeles, CA issued this beach hazards statement at Sep 1, 2023, 1:38 PM PDT for Los Angeles County, Ventura County, California. It took effect at Sep 2, 2023, 11:26 AM PDT. It was in force for 10 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Sep 1, 2023, 1:38 PM PDT (20:38 UTC)
In effect from
Sep 2, 2023, 11:26 AM PDT
Expired
Sep 2, 2023, 9:16 PM PDT
In force
10 hr
Issued by
NWS Los Angeles, CA

Counties Los Angeles County, CA, Ventura County, CA

The radar

The Los Angeles radar (KVTX), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:41 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, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 215 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 2023-09-01Temperature 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 2023-09-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 59 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
1085 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
59 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
75 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Los Angeles, CA issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 31, 7:44 PM PDTSmall Craft AdvisoryLOX5 hr
Aug 31, 10:28 PM PDTWind AdvisoryLOXLos Angeles29 hr

Nearby

Beach Hazards Statements in California, 2023Every beach hazards statement in 2023

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.