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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 7, NWS Los Angeles, CA

August 26, 2025Los Angeles County, California

NWS Los Angeles, CA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 26, 2025, 2:37 PM PDT for Los Angeles County, California. It was in force for 53 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 26, 2025, 2:37 PM PDT (21:37 UTC)
Expired
Aug 26, 2025, 3:30 PM PDT
In force
53 min
Issued by
NWS Los Angeles, CA
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
0.75 in
Wind
60.0 mph

County Los Angeles County, CA

The radar

The Santa Ana Mts radar (KSOX), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:38 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

San Diego, CA (KNKX), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 184 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, San Diego, CA at 12:00Z on 2025-08-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 32 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, San Diego, CA at 12:00Z on 2025-08-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 44 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
32 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-692 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1374 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
44 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
20 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 26, 1:30 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementLOXLos Angeles45 min
Aug 26, 2:17 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementLOXLos Angeles43 min
Aug 26, 2:51 PM PDTAreal Flood AdvisoryLOXLos Angeles66 min
Aug 26, 3:17 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementLOX43 min
Aug 26, 3:25 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementLOX35 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.