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Wind Advisory 46, NWS Los Angeles, CA

May 2, 2025Santa Barbara County, California

NWS Los Angeles, CA issued this wind advisory at May 2, 2025, 9:21 PM PDT for Santa Barbara County, California. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 2, 2025, 9:21 PM PDT (04:21 UTC)
Expired
May 3, 2025, 3:18 AM PDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
NWS Los Angeles, CA

County Santa Barbara County, CA

The radar

The Vandenberg AFB radar (KVBX), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:24 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Vandenberg AFB, CA (KVBG), launched 00:00Z, 4.4 hours before the alert went out and 48 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, Vandenberg AFB, CA at 00:00Z on 2025-05-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Vandenberg AFB, CA at 00:00Z on 2025-05-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 8 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
2329 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
8 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
84 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 2, 5:31 PM PDTAreal Flood AdvisoryLOXSanta Barbara, Ventura65 min
May 2, 7:55 PM PDTWind AdvisoryLOXSan Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara37 hr
May 3, 2:25 AM PDTHigh Surf AdvisoryLOXLos Angeles, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Ventura55 hr

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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.