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Heat Advisory 1, NWS Eureka, CA

June 9, 2026Lake County, Mendocino County, California

NWS Eureka, CA issued this heat advisory at Jun 9, 2026, 4:48 PM PDT for Lake County, Mendocino County, California. It took effect at Jun 11, 2026, 12:00 PM PDT. It was in force for 58 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 9, 2026, 4:48 PM PDT (23:48 UTC)
In effect from
Jun 11, 2026, 12:00 PM PDT
Expired
Jun 13, 2026, 10:00 PM PDT
In force
58 hr
Issued by
NWS Eureka, CA

Counties Lake County, CA, Mendocino County, CA

The radar

The Beale AFB radar (KBBX), 128 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:46 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

Oakland, CA (KOAK), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 188 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, Oakland, CA at 12:00Z on 2026-06-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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, Oakland, CA at 12:00Z on 2026-06-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 90 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
489 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
90 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
107 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 9, 9:44 AM PDTRed Flag WarningEKALake55 hr
Jun 9, 2:51 PM PDTGale WarningEKA4 days

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.