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Wind Advisory 25, NWS Phoenix, AZ
NWS Phoenix, AZ issued this wind advisory at Apr 16, 2023, 1:28 PM PDT for Imperial County, California. It took effect at Apr 18, 2023, 1:00 PM PDT. It was in force for 16 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 16, 2023, 1:28 PM PDT (20:28 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 18, 2023, 1:00 PM PDT
- Expired
- Apr 19, 2023, 5:00 AM PDT
- In force
- 16 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Phoenix, AZ
County Imperial County, CA
The radar
The Yuma radar (KYUX), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:31 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 173 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
- 723 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 8 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 19 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 62 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Phoenix, AZ issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 16, 1:28 PM PDT | Wind Advisory | PSR | Imperial | 40 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.