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Wind Advisory 5, NWS Phoenix, AZ

February 29, 2024La Paz County, Arizona; Imperial County, Riverside County, San Bernardino County, California

NWS Phoenix, AZ issued this wind advisory at Feb 29, 2024, 1:02 PM MST for La Paz County, Arizona; Imperial County, Riverside County, San Bernardino County, California. It took effect at Mar 1, 2024, 7:00 PM MST. It was in force for 64 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Feb 29, 2024, 1:02 PM MST (20:02 UTC)
In effect from
Mar 1, 2024, 7:00 PM MST
Expired
Mar 4, 2024, 11:00 AM MST
In force
64 hr
Issued by
NWS Phoenix, AZ

Counties La Paz County, AZ, Imperial County, CA, Riverside County, CA, San Bernardino County, CA

The radar

The Yuma radar (KYUX), 164 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:59 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

Yuma Prvg Ground, AZ (K1Y7), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 175 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, Yuma Prvg Ground, AZ at 12:00Z on 2024-02-29Temperature 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, Yuma Prvg Ground, AZ at 12:00Z on 2024-02-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 77 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
1762 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
77 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
86 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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.