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Wind Advisory 51, NWS Los Angeles, CA

May 22, 2025Santa Barbara County, California

NWS Los Angeles, CA issued this wind advisory at May 22, 2025, 2:52 AM PDT for Santa Barbara County, California. It took effect at May 22, 2025, 3:00 PM PDT. It was in force for 12 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 22, 2025, 2:52 AM PDT (09:52 UTC)
In effect from: May 22, 2025, 3:00 PM PDT
Expired: May 23, 2025, 3:00 AM PDT
In force: 12 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 09:56 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this wind advisory 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 wind advisory went out at May 22, 2:16 AM PDT, 36 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 22, 2:16 AM PDT, 36 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 22, 1:28 AM PDT	Small Craft Advisory	LOX		38 hr

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Wind Advisories in California, 2025 Every wind advisory 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.