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Wind Advisory 85, NWS Los Angeles, CA

November 1, 2024Santa Barbara County, California

NWS Los Angeles, CA issued this wind advisory at Nov 1, 2024, 12:13 PM PDT for Santa Barbara County, California. It took effect at Nov 1, 2024, 6:00 PM PDT. It was in force for 11 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Nov 1, 2024, 12:13 PM PDT (19:13 UTC)
In effect from
Nov 1, 2024, 6:00 PM PDT
Expired
Nov 2, 2024, 5:00 AM PDT
In force
11 hr
Issued by
NWS Los Angeles, CA

County Santa Barbara County, CA

The radar

The Vandenberg AFB radar (KVBX), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:11 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, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 326 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 2024-11-01Temperature 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 2024-11-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 34 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
1479 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
34 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
67 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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 Nov 1, 10:16 AM PDT, 1 hour 57 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Nov 1, 10:16 AM PDT, 1 hour 57 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 31, 6:23 PM PDTFrost AdvisoryLOXSan Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Ventura15 hr
Oct 31, 6:23 PM PDTFreeze WarningLOXLos Angeles, San Luis Obispo15 hr
Nov 1, 12:41 AM PDTHigh Surf AdvisoryLOXSan Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara26 hr
Nov 1, 1:32 AM PDTSmall Craft AdvisoryLOX19 hr
Nov 1, 12:58 PM PDTGale WarningLOX56 hr
Nov 1, 12:58 PM PDTSmall Craft AdvisoryLOX3 days
Nov 1, 2:36 PM PDTFire Weather WatchLOXLos Angeles, Ventura24 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.