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Wind Advisory 50, NWS Phoenix, AZ

October 21, 2023Imperial County, Riverside County, California

NWS Phoenix, AZ issued this wind advisory at Oct 21, 2023, 1:19 PM PDT for Imperial County, Riverside County, California. It took effect at Oct 22, 2023, 3:00 PM PDT. It was in force for 20 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Oct 21, 2023, 1:19 PM PDT (20:19 UTC)
In effect from
Oct 22, 2023, 3:00 PM PDT
Expired
Oct 23, 2023, 11:00 AM PDT
In force
20 hr
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 20:19 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, 8.3 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, San Diego, CA at 12:00Z on 2023-10-21Temperature 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, San Diego, CA at 12:00Z on 2023-10-21The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 0 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
2585 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
0 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
11 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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.