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Special Weather Statement, NWS Eureka, CA
NWS Eureka, CA issued this special weather statement at Jan 3, 2025, 10:57 PM PST for Humboldt County, California. It was in force for 33 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 3, 2025, 10:57 PM PST (06:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 3, 2025, 11:30 PM PST
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Eureka, CA
- Hail
- 0.25 in
- Wind
- 30
County Humboldt County, CA
The radar
The Eureka (Bunker Hill) radar (KBHX), 19 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:56 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
Medford/Jackson, OR (KMFR), launched 00:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 224 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
- 30 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -10 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1203 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 55 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 168 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
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</html>What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this special weather statement went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jan 3, 10:57 PM PST, 0 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Eureka, CA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 3, 4:23 PM PST | Special Weather Statement | EKA | Humboldt | 37 min |
| Jan 3, 9:27 PM PST | Special Marine Warning | EKA | 20 min |
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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.