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Special Weather Statement, NWS Eureka, CA

December 25, 2025

NWS Eureka, CA issued this special weather statement at Dec 25, 2025, 11:49 AM PST. It was in force for 26 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
Dec 25, 2025, 11:49 AM PST (19:49 UTC)
Expired
Dec 25, 2025, 12:15 PM PST
In force
26 min
Issued by
NWS Eureka, CA
Hail
0.50 in
Wind
40
Spout
Possible

The radar

The Eureka (Bunker Hill) radar (KBHX), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:50 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

Oakland, CA (KOAK), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 297 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, Oakland, CA at 12:00Z on 2025-12-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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, Oakland, CA at 12:00Z on 2025-12-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 268 square meters per square second.1939587897117136Sfc1 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
1 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
596 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
70 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
268 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
293 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

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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.

NWS Eureka, CA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this special weather statement went out at Dec 24, 3:56 PM PST, 19 hours 53 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 24, 3:56 PM PST, 19 hours 53 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Dec 24, 4:18 PM PSTSpecial Marine WarningEKA27 min
Dec 24, 11:45 PM PSTSpecial Marine WarningEKA30 min
Dec 25, 1:02 AM PSTSpecial Marine WarningEKA28 min
Dec 25, 4:41 AM PSTSpecial Weather StatementEKAHumboldt34 min
Dec 25, 5:51 AM PSTAreal Flood AdvisoryEKALake6 hr
Dec 25, 6:26 AM PSTSpecial Weather StatementEKAMendocino34 min
Dec 25, 6:40 AM PSTSpecial Weather StatementEKAHumboldt35 min
Dec 25, 6:56 AM PSTSpecial Weather StatementEKAHumboldt34 min
Dec 25, 8:20 AM PSTSpecial Weather StatementEKAHumboldt25 min
Dec 25, 8:37 AM PSTSpecial Weather StatementEKAHumboldt23 min
Dec 25, 9:42 AM PSTSpecial Weather StatementEKADel Norte33 min
Dec 25, 9:45 AM PSTSpecial Weather StatementEKALake30 min
Dec 25, 10:28 AM PSTGale WarningEKA38 hr
Dec 25, 10:49 AM PSTSpecial Weather StatementEKAHumboldt26 min
Dec 25, 11:34 AM PSTSpecial Weather StatementEKAHumboldt26 min
Dec 25, 12:18 PM PSTSpecial Weather StatementEKA27 min

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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.