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Wind Advisory 20, NWS Los Angeles, CA
NWS Los Angeles, CA issued this wind advisory at Feb 29, 2024, 1:30 PM PST for 4 counties in California. It took effect at Mar 1, 2024, 4:00 PM PST. It was in force for 51 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 29, 2024, 1:30 PM PST (21:30 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 1, 2024, 4:00 PM PST
- Expired
- Mar 3, 2024, 7:00 PM PST
- In force
- 51 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Los Angeles, CA
Counties Los Angeles County, CA, San Luis Obispo County, CA, Santa Barbara County, CA, Ventura County, CA
The radar
The Los Angeles radar (KVTX), 35 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:32 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
Vandenberg AFB, CA (KVBG), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 95 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
- 1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 673 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 40 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 79 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this wind advisory 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 wind advisory went out at Feb 29, 9:51 AM PST, 3 hours 39 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 29, 9:51 AM PST, 3 hours 39 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Los Angeles, CA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 29, 1:30 PM PST | High Wind Watch | LOX | Los Angeles | 16 hr |
| Feb 29, 1:30 PM PST | Winter Storm Watch | LOX | Los Angeles | 16 hr |
| Feb 29, 1:30 PM PST | Winter Weather Advisory | LOX | Santa Barbara, Ventura | 67 hr |
| Feb 29, 3:19 PM PST | Wind Advisory | LOX | Los Angeles | 7 hr |
Nearby
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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.