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Beach Hazards Statement 20, NWS Los Angeles, CA
NWS Los Angeles, CA issued this beach hazards statement at Dec 11, 2024, 2:28 PM PST for Los Angeles County, Santa Barbara County, California. It took effect at Dec 12, 2024, 4:00 PM PST. It was in force for 3 days.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 11, 2024, 2:28 PM PST (22:28 UTC)
- In effect from
- Dec 12, 2024, 4:00 PM PST
- Expired
- Dec 16, 2024, 2:00 AM PST
- In force
- 3 days
- Issued by
- NWS Los Angeles, CA
The radar
The Los Angeles radar (KVTX), 6 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:29 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, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 251 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
- 5709 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 49 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 58 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this beach hazards statement 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 beach hazards statement went out at Dec 11, 2:27 PM PST, 1 minute earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Dec 11, 2:27 PM PST, 1 minute before
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Everything else NWS Los Angeles, CA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 10, 8:49 PM PST | Freeze Warning | LOX | Ventura | 12 hr |
| Dec 11, 1:29 AM PST | Small Craft Advisory | LOX | 8 days | |
| Dec 11, 3:08 AM PST | Frost Advisory | LOX | Los Angeles | 6 hr |
| Dec 11, 2:28 PM PST | Gale Warning | LOX | 24 hr | |
| Dec 11, 2:28 PM PST | High Surf Advisory | LOX | San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Ventura | 4 days |
Nearby
Beach Hazards Statements in California, 2024Every beach hazards statement in 2024
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.