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Wind Advisory 51, NWS Phoenix, AZ

October 27, 2023La Paz County, Yuma County, Arizona; Imperial County, Riverside County, San Bernardino County, California

NWS Phoenix, AZ issued this wind advisory at Oct 27, 2023, 12:51 PM MST for La Paz County, Yuma County, Arizona; Imperial County, Riverside County, San Bernardino County, California. It took effect at Oct 29, 2023, 1:00 AM MST. It was in force for 22 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Oct 27, 2023, 12:51 PM MST (19:51 UTC)
In effect from
Oct 29, 2023, 1:00 AM MST
Expired
Oct 29, 2023, 11:00 PM MST
In force
22 hr
Issued by
NWS Phoenix, AZ

Counties La Paz County, AZ, Yuma County, AZ, Imperial County, CA, Riverside County, CA, San Bernardino County, CA

The radar

The Yuma radar (KYUX), 132 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:53 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, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 217 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 2023-10-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 2023-10-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 40 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
636 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
40 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
73 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.