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Wind Advisory 12, NWS Phoenix, AZ

March 16, 2025Yuma County, Arizona; Imperial County, Riverside County, San Bernardino County, California

NWS Phoenix, AZ issued this wind advisory at Mar 16, 2025, 2:00 AM MST for Yuma County, Arizona; Imperial County, Riverside County, San Bernardino County, California. It took effect at Mar 17, 2025, 2:00 PM MST. It was in force for 19 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 16, 2025, 2:00 AM MST (09:00 UTC)
In effect from
Mar 17, 2025, 2:00 PM MST
Expired
Mar 18, 2025, 9:00 AM MST
In force
19 hr
Issued by
NWS Phoenix, AZ

Counties Yuma County, AZ, Imperial County, CA, Riverside County, CA, San Bernardino County, CA

The radar

The Yuma radar (KYUX), 139 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:03 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 00:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 193 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 00:00Z on 2025-03-16Temperature 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, San Diego, CA at 00:00Z on 2025-03-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -20 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
1769 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-20 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
17 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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.