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Wind Advisory 32, NWS Los Angeles, CA
NWS Los Angeles, CA issued this wind advisory at Mar 30, 2024, 2:14 PM PDT for San Luis Obispo County, Santa Barbara County, California. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 30, 2024, 2:14 PM PDT (21:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 30, 2024, 8:04 PM PDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Los Angeles, CA
Counties San Luis Obispo County, CA, Santa Barbara County, CA
The radar
The Vandenberg AFB radar (KVBX), 20 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:17 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Oakland, CA (KOAK), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 354 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
- 9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -21 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 976 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 31 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 54 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 Mar 30, 11:55 AM PDT, 2 hours 19 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 30, 11:55 AM PDT, 2 hours 19 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Los Angeles, CA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Mar 29, 5:30 PM PDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LOX | San Luis Obispo | 7 hr |
| Mar 29, 6:23 PM PDT | Special Marine Warning | LOX | 112 min | |
| Mar 29, 7:45 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | LOX | San Luis Obispo | 45 min |
| Mar 29, 8:15 PM PDT | Special Marine Warning | LOX | 2 hr | |
| Mar 29, 8:19 PM PDT | Small Craft Advisory | LOX | 55 hr | |
| Mar 29, 8:38 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | LOX | Santa Barbara | 52 min |
| Mar 29, 9:50 PM PDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LOX | Santa Barbara | 4 hr |
| Mar 29, 10:35 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | LOX | Santa Barbara | 25 min |
| Mar 29, 10:39 PM PDT | Special Marine Warning | LOX | 2 hr | |
| Mar 29, 11:22 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | LOX | Santa Barbara | 53 min |
| Mar 29, 11:43 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | LOX | Santa Barbara | 3 hr |
| Mar 30, 12:23 AM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | LOX | Santa Barbara | 4 hr |
| Mar 30, 12:31 AM PDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LOX | Ventura | 6 hr |
| Mar 30, 1:24 AM PDT | Special Marine Warning | LOX | 111 min | |
| Mar 30, 1:25 AM PDT | Special Weather Statement | LOX | Ventura | 20 min |
| Mar 30, 1:28 AM PDT | Tornado Warning | LOX | Santa Barbara | 19 min |
| Mar 30, 2:17 AM PDT | Special Weather Statement | LOX | Ventura | 43 min |
| Mar 30, 2:31 AM PDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LOX | Los Angeles | 7 hr |
| Mar 30, 3:58 AM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | LOX | Los Angeles | 4 hr |
| Mar 30, 6:29 AM PDT | Special Weather Statement | LOX | Los Angeles | 31 min |
| Mar 30, 7:20 AM PDT | Special Weather Statement | LOX | Los Angeles | 55 min |
| Mar 30, 7:49 AM PDT | Special Marine Warning | LOX | 26 min | |
| Mar 30, 9:25 AM PDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LOX | Los Angeles | 95 min |
| Mar 30, 12:57 PM PDT | Special Marine Warning | LOX | 108 min | |
| Mar 30, 1:56 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | LOX | San Luis Obispo | 79 min |
| Mar 30, 2:49 PM PDT | Special Marine Warning | LOX | 116 min | |
| Mar 30, 3:23 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | LOX | San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara | 52 min |
| Mar 30, 3:48 PM PDT | Special Marine Warning | LOX | 57 min | |
| Mar 30, 4:26 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | LOX | Santa Barbara | 49 min |
| Mar 30, 4:52 PM PDT | Special Marine Warning | LOX | 113 min |
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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.