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Red Flag Warning 3, NWS Los Angeles, CA

November 8, 2023Los Angeles County, Ventura County, California

NWS Los Angeles, CA issued this red flag warning at Nov 8, 2023, 9:28 AM PST for Los Angeles County, Ventura County, California. It took effect at Nov 9, 2023, 3:00 AM PST. It was in force for 15 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Nov 8, 2023, 9:28 AM PST (17:28 UTC)
In effect from: Nov 9, 2023, 3:00 AM PST
Expired: Nov 9, 2023, 6:00 PM PST
In force: 15 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 17:31 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this red flag warning 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 red flag warning went out at Nov 8, 3:24 AM PST, 6 hours 4 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Nov 8, 3:24 AM PST, 6 hours 4 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Nov 8, 7:27 AM PST, 2 hours 1 minute before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 7, 8:15 PM PST	High Surf Advisory	LOX	Ventura	14 hr
Nov 8, 3:06 AM PST	Wind Advisory	LOX	Santa Barbara, Ventura	32 hr
Nov 8, 1:47 PM PST	Frost Advisory	LOX	Los Angeles, Santa Barbara	19 hr
Nov 8, 2:10 PM PST	Gale Warning	LOX		19 hr

Nearby

Red Flag Warnings in California, 2023 Every red flag warning 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.