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Wind Advisory 35, NWS Los Angeles, CA

March 23, 20234 counties in California

NWS Los Angeles, CA issued this wind advisory at Mar 23, 2023, 3:22 AM PDT for 4 counties in California. It took effect at Mar 23, 2023, 8:00 PM PDT. It was in force for 61 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 23, 2023, 3:22 AM PDT (10:22 UTC)
In effect from
Mar 23, 2023, 8:00 PM PDT
Expired
Mar 26, 2023, 9:00 AM PDT
In force
61 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 10:24 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, 10.4 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 00:00Z on 2023-03-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 47 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 00:00Z on 2023-03-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 8 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
47 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-1 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
520 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
8 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
43 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 22, 2:12 PM PDT, 13 hours 10 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 22, 2:12 PM PDT, 13 hours 10 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 23, 3:55 AM PDTGale WatchLOX17 hr
Mar 23, 1:22 PM PDTWinter Weather AdvisoryLOXLos Angeles, Ventura22 hr

Nearby

Wind Advisories in California, 2023Every wind advisory 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.