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High Wind Watch 3, NWS Phoenix, AZ
NWS Phoenix, AZ issued this high wind watch at Feb 27, 2023, 12:30 PM PST for Imperial County, Riverside County, California. It took effect at Mar 1, 2023, 10:00 AM PST. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 27, 2023, 12:30 PM PST (20:30 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 1, 2023, 10:00 AM PST
- Expired
- Feb 28, 2023, 1:15 AM PST
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Phoenix, AZ
Counties Imperial County, CA, Riverside County, CA
The radar
The San Diego radar (KNKX), 137 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:30 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
San Diego, CA (KNKX), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 156 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
- 1097 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 70 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -53 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 14 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 Phoenix, AZ wrote its last area forecast discussion before this high wind watch went out at Feb 27, 9:57 AM PST, 2 hours 33 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 27, 9:57 AM PST, 2 hours 33 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Phoenix, AZ issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 27, 12:22 PM PST | Winter Storm Watch | PSR | Gila, Maricopa, Pinal | 13 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.