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Wind Advisory 19, NWS Seattle, WA

November 21, 2024San Juan County, Washington

NWS Seattle, WA issued this wind advisory at Nov 21, 2024, 3:17 AM PST for San Juan County, Washington. It took effect at Nov 21, 2024, 10:00 PM PST. It was in force for 30 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Nov 21, 2024, 3:17 AM PST (11:17 UTC)
In effect from
Nov 21, 2024, 10:00 PM PST
Expired
Nov 23, 2024, 4:00 AM PST
In force
30 hr
Issued by
NWS Seattle, WA

County San Juan County, WA

The radar

The Seattle radar (KATX), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:19 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

Quillayute State, WA (KUIL), launched 00:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 127 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, Quillayute State, WA at 00:00Z on 2024-11-21Temperature 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, Quillayute State, WA at 00:00Z on 2024-11-21The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 268 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
593 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
268 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
562 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 Seattle, WA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this wind advisory went out at Nov 21, 3:17 AM PST, 0 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Nov 21, 3:17 AM PST, 0 minutes before
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Seattle, WA issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Nov 20, 4:15 PM PSTTornado Warning Tornado observedSEWGrays Harbor30 min
Nov 20, 4:32 PM PSTSpecial Marine WarningSEW28 min
Nov 20, 4:38 PM PSTTornado Warning Tornado observedSEWGrays Harbor22 min
Nov 21, 2:41 AM PSTGale WarningSEW47 hr
Nov 21, 2:41 AM PSTStorm WarningSEW41 hr
Nov 21, 1:51 PM PSTSmall Craft AdvisorySEW49 hr
Nov 21, 2:47 PM PSTHigh Surf AdvisorySEW29 hr

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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.