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High Wind Watch 2, NWS Los Angeles, CA
NWS Los Angeles, CA issued this high wind watch at Jan 8, 2023, 1:49 AM PST for San Luis Obispo County, Santa Barbara County, California. It took effect at Jan 9, 2023, 1:00 AM PST. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 8, 2023, 1:49 AM PST (09:49 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 9, 2023, 1:00 AM PST
- Expired
- Jan 8, 2023, 1:06 PM PST
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Los Angeles, CA
Counties San Luis Obispo County, CA, Santa Barbara County, CA
The radar
The Vandenberg AFB radar (KVBX), 20 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:52 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
Vandenberg AFB, CA (KVBG), launched 00:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 35 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
- 1540 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 131 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 268 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this high wind watch went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Los Angeles, CA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this high wind watch went out at Jan 7, 9:31 PM PST, 4 hours 18 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 7, 9:31 PM PST, 4 hours 18 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Los Angeles, CA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 7, 5:29 PM PST | Wind Advisory | LOX | San Luis Obispo | 13 hr |
| Jan 7, 5:56 PM PST | Beach Hazards Statement | LOX | Los Angeles, Santa Barbara | 56 hr |
| Jan 7, 8:22 PM PST | Small Craft Advisory | LOX | 37 hr | |
| Jan 8, 2:48 AM PST | Gale Warning | LOX | 41 hr | |
| Jan 8, 9:23 AM PST | Small Craft Advisory | LOX | 18 hr | |
| Jan 8, 1:06 PM PST | High Wind Warning | LOX | San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Ventura | 54 hr |
| Jan 8, 1:06 PM PST | Wind Advisory | LOX | Los Angeles, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Ventura | 45 hr |
| Jan 8, 1:55 PM PST | Flood Watch | LOX | Los Angeles, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Ventura | 46 hr |
| Jan 8, 2:22 PM PST | Gale Watch | LOX | 7 hr | |
| Jan 8, 2:22 PM PST | Small Craft Advisory | LOX | 10 days |
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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.