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Wind Advisory 96, NWS Los Angeles, CA

October 27, 2023Los Angeles County, Santa Barbara County, California

NWS Los Angeles, CA issued this wind advisory at Oct 27, 2023, 6:34 AM PDT for Los Angeles County, Santa Barbara County, California. It took effect at Oct 27, 2023, 5:00 PM PDT. It was in force for 34 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Oct 27, 2023, 6:34 AM PDT (13:34 UTC)
In effect from
Oct 27, 2023, 5:00 PM PDT
Expired
Oct 29, 2023, 3:00 AM PDT
In force
34 hr
Issued by
NWS Los Angeles, CA

Counties Los Angeles County, CA, Santa Barbara County, CA

The radar

The Los Angeles radar (KVTX), 6 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:35 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, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 130 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 2023-10-27Temperature 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, Vandenberg AFB, CA at 12:00Z on 2023-10-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -75 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
1646 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-75 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-22 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 Oct 27, 5:41 AM PDT, 53 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 27, 5:41 AM PDT, 53 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 27, 2:49 AM PDTSmall Craft AdvisoryLOX24 hr
Oct 27, 2:09 PM PDTFreeze WatchLOXLos Angeles, San Luis Obispo23 hr
Oct 27, 2:09 PM PDTFreeze WatchLOXLos Angeles, San Luis Obispo23 hr
Oct 27, 2:09 PM PDTHigh Wind WarningLOXLos Angeles, Santa Barbara, Ventura70 hr
Oct 27, 2:09 PM PDTWind AdvisoryLOXLos Angeles, Santa Barbara, Ventura4 days
Oct 27, 2:15 PM PDTRed Flag WarningLOXLos Angeles, Ventura4 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.