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Wind Advisory 83, NWS Los Angeles, CA

October 26, 20244 counties in California

NWS Los Angeles, CA issued this wind advisory at Oct 26, 2024, 3:54 PM PDT for 4 counties in California. It took effect at Oct 27, 2024, 6:00 PM PDT. It was in force for 41 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Oct 26, 2024, 3:54 PM PDT (22:54 UTC)
In effect from
Oct 27, 2024, 6:00 PM PDT
Expired
Oct 29, 2024, 11:00 AM PDT
In force
41 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 22:59 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, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 291 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 2024-10-26Temperature 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 2024-10-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -3 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
2419 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-3 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
10 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Los Angeles, CA issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 26, 1:15 PM PDTGale WatchLOX32 hr
Oct 26, 1:15 PM PDTSmall Craft AdvisoryLOX4 days

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.