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Beach Hazards Statement 15, NWS Los Angeles, CA

August 25, 2026Los Angeles County, Ventura County, California

NWS Los Angeles, CA issued this beach hazards statement at Aug 25, 2026, 12:25 PM PDT for Los Angeles County, Ventura County, California. It took effect at Aug 26, 2026, 5:00 AM PDT. It was in force for 42 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 25, 2026, 12:25 PM PDT (19:25 UTC)
In effect from
Aug 26, 2026, 5:00 AM PDT
Expired
Aug 27, 2026, 11:00 PM PDT
In force
42 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 19:26 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 12:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 215 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 12:00Z on 2026-08-25Temperature 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 12:00Z on 2026-08-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -28 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
2029 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-28 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-4 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
Aug 24, 8:28 PM PDTSmall Craft AdvisoryLOX53 hr

Nearby

Beach Hazards Statements in California, 2026Every beach hazards statement in 2026

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.