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Wind Advisory 34, NWS Los Angeles, CA

March 20, 20234 counties in California

NWS Los Angeles, CA issued this wind advisory at Mar 20, 2023, 1:47 PM PDT for 4 counties in California. It took effect at Mar 21, 2023, 7:00 AM PDT. It was in force for 15 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 20, 2023, 1:47 PM PDT (20:47 UTC)
In effect from
Mar 21, 2023, 7:00 AM PDT
Expired
Mar 21, 2023, 9:31 PM PDT
In force
15 hr
Issued by
NWS Los Angeles, CA

Counties Los Angeles County, CA, San Luis Obispo County, CA, Santa Barbara County, CA, Ventura County, CA

The radar

The Los Angeles radar (KVTX), 35 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:47 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 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 95 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, Vandenberg AFB, CA at 12:00Z on 2023-03-20Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 22 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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, Vandenberg AFB, CA at 12:00Z on 2023-03-20The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -4 square meters per square second.1939587897117136Sfc1 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
22 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
441 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
76 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
57 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 wind advisory 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 wind advisory went out at Mar 20, 1:46 PM PDT, 1 minute earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 20, 1:46 PM PDT, 1 minute before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 20, 2:50 AM PDTGale WarningLOX35 hr
Mar 20, 5:00 AM PDTHigh Surf AdvisoryLOXLos Angeles, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Ventura3 days
Mar 20, 12:27 PM PDTFlood WatchLOXLos Angeles, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Ventura53 hr
Mar 20, 1:08 PM PDTCoastal Flood AdvisoryLOXSan Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Ventura61 hr
Mar 20, 1:47 PM PDTHigh Wind WarningLOXLos Angeles, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara32 hr
Mar 20, 1:47 PM PDTWinter Storm WarningLOXLos Angeles, Santa Barbara, Ventura57 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.