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High Wind Warning 10, NWS Los Angeles, CA
NWS Los Angeles, CA issued this high wind warning at Feb 12, 2025, 11:25 AM PST for 4 counties in California. It took effect at Feb 13, 2025, 6:00 AM PST. It was in force for 15 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 12, 2025, 11:25 AM PST (19:25 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 13, 2025, 6:00 AM PST
- Expired
- Feb 13, 2025, 9:16 PM PST
- In force
- 15 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Los Angeles, CA
Counties Los Angeles County, CA, San Luis Obispo County, CA, Santa Barbara County, CA, Ventura County, CA
The radar
The Los Angeles radar (KVTX), 35 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:28 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
San Diego, CA (KNKX), launched 12:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 291 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
- 4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 680 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 78 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 81 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 212 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 wind warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Los Angeles, CA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this high wind warning went out at Feb 12, 10:36 AM PST, 49 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 12, 10:36 AM PST, 49 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Los Angeles, CA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 11, 8:17 PM PST | High Surf Advisory | LOX | Ventura | 9 hr |
| Feb 12, 3:03 AM PST | Gale Watch | LOX | 10 hr | |
| Feb 12, 3:03 AM PST | Small Craft Advisory | LOX | 3 days | |
| Feb 12, 5:40 AM PST | High Surf Advisory | LOX | Los Angeles, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Ventura | 3 days |
| Feb 12, 1:01 PM PST | Gale Warning | LOX | 23 hr | |
| Feb 12, 1:01 PM PST | Small Craft Advisory | LOX | 17 hr | |
| Feb 12, 1:01 PM PST | Small Craft Advisory | LOX | 36 hr | |
| Feb 12, 1:03 PM PST | Wind Advisory | LOX | Los Angeles, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Ventura | 32 hr |
Nearby
High Wind Warnings in California, 2025Every high wind warning in 2025
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.