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High Surf Advisory 3, NWS San Francisco Bay Area, CA
NWS San Francisco Bay Area, CA issued this high surf advisory at Jan 30, 2024, 4:48 PM PST for 6 counties in California. It took effect at Jan 31, 2024, 3:00 PM PST. It was in force for 47 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 30, 2024, 4:48 PM PST (00:48 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 31, 2024, 3:00 PM PST
- Expired
- Feb 2, 2024, 2:17 PM PST
- In force
- 47 hr
- Issued by
- NWS San Francisco Bay Area, CA
Counties City and County of San Francisco, CA, Marin County, CA, Monterey County, CA, San Mateo County, CA, Santa Cruz County, CA, Sonoma County, CA
The radar
The San Francisco radar (KMUX), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:52 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 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 349 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
- 1824 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -50 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -10 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this high surf advisory went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS San Francisco Bay Area, CA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this high surf advisory went out at Jan 30, 3:18 PM PST, 1 hour 30 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 30, 3:18 PM PST, 1 hour 30 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS San Francisco Bay Area, CA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 31, 2:49 AM PST | Gale Warning | MTR | 12 hr | |
| Jan 31, 2:36 PM PST | Small Craft Advisory | MTR | 3 days |
Nearby
High Surf Advisories in California, 2024Every high surf advisory 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.