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High Wind Watch 2, NWS Los Angeles, CA

January 8, 2025Los Angeles County, Ventura County, California

NWS Los Angeles, CA issued this high wind watch at Jan 8, 2025, 9:54 PM PST for Los Angeles County, Ventura County, California. It took effect at Jan 9, 2025, 6:00 PM PST. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jan 8, 2025, 9:54 PM PST (05:54 UTC)
In effect from
Jan 9, 2025, 6:00 PM PST
Expired
Jan 9, 2025, 12:41 PM PST
In force
Issued by
NWS Los Angeles, CA

Counties Los Angeles County, CA, Ventura County, CA

The radar

The Los Angeles radar (KVTX), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:53 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.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this high wind watch 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 watch went out at Jan 8, 7:21 PM PST, 2 hours 33 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 8, 7:21 PM PST, 2 hours 33 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 8, 8:05 PM PSTSmall Craft AdvisoryLOX7 days
Jan 8, 9:54 PM PSTWind AdvisoryLOXLos Angeles, Ventura38 hr
Jan 8, 10:40 PM PSTFrost AdvisoryLOXSanta Barbara, Ventura10 hr
Jan 9, 1:34 AM PSTFreeze WatchLOXVentura11 hr
Jan 9, 12:41 PM PSTFrost AdvisoryLOXVentura19 hr
Jan 9, 12:41 PM PSTHigh Wind WarningLOXLos Angeles, Ventura23 hr

Nearby

High Wind Watches in California, 2025Every high wind watch 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.