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Wind Advisory 95, NWS Los Angeles, CA

December 22, 2025Los Angeles County, Ventura County, California

NWS Los Angeles, CA issued this wind advisory at Dec 22, 2025, 6:09 PM PST for Los Angeles County, Ventura County, California. It took effect at Dec 23, 2025, 12:00 PM PST. It was in force for 51 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Dec 22, 2025, 6:09 PM PST (02:09 UTC)
In effect from
Dec 23, 2025, 12:00 PM PST
Expired
Dec 25, 2025, 3:00 PM PST
In force
51 hr
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 02:11 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

Vandenberg AFB, CA (KVBG), launched 00:00Z, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 173 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 2025-12-23Temperature 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 2025-12-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 228 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
1167 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
61 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
228 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
270 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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 Dec 22, 1:31 PM PST, 4 hours 38 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 22, 1:31 PM PST, 4 hours 38 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Dec 22, 6:09 PM PSTHigh Wind WarningLOXLos Angeles, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Ventura69 hr
Dec 23, 1:11 AM PSTGale WarningLOX56 hr
Dec 23, 1:11 AM PSTStorm WarningLOX19 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.