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High Wind Warning 11, NWS Los Angeles, CA
NWS Los Angeles, CA issued this high wind warning at Mar 12, 2025, 12:27 AM PDT for San Luis Obispo County, California. It took effect at Mar 12, 2025, 2:00 PM PDT. It was in force for 12 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
- Mar 12, 2025, 12:27 AM PDT (07:27 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 12, 2025, 2:00 PM PDT
- Expired
- Mar 13, 2025, 2:00 AM PDT
- In force
- 12 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Los Angeles, CA
County San Luis Obispo County, CA
The radar
The Vandenberg AFB radar (KVBX), 61 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:26 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
Oakland, CA (KOAK), launched 00:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 304 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1019 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -21 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -29 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 Mar 11, 10:40 PM PDT, 1 hour 47 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 11, 10:40 PM PDT, 1 hour 47 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 11, 10:17 PM PDT | Small Craft Advisory | LOX | 3 hr | |
| Mar 12, 12:27 AM PDT | High Wind Watch | LOX | Los Angeles | 12 hr |
| Mar 12, 12:27 AM PDT | Wind Advisory | LOX | Los Angeles, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Ventura | 3 days |
| Mar 12, 1:05 AM PDT | High Surf Advisory | LOX | Los Angeles, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Ventura | 3 days |
| Mar 12, 1:22 AM PDT | Gale Watch | LOX | 25 hr | |
| Mar 12, 1:22 AM PDT | Small Craft Advisory | LOX | 11 hr | |
| Mar 12, 3:22 PM PDT | Special Marine Warning | LOX | 113 min | |
| Mar 12, 4:28 PM PDT | Special Marine Warning | LOX | 92 min |
Nearby
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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.