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Wind Advisory 51, NWS Los Angeles, CA

July 22, 2026Santa Barbara County, Ventura County, California

NWS Los Angeles, CA issued this wind advisory at Jul 22, 2026, 9:01 AM PDT for Santa Barbara County, Ventura County, California. It took effect at Jul 22, 2026, 6:00 PM PDT. It was in force for 12 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 22, 2026, 9:01 AM PDT (16:01 UTC)
In effect from
Jul 22, 2026, 6:00 PM PDT
Expired
Jul 23, 2026, 6:00 AM PDT
In force
12 hr
Issued by
NWS Los Angeles, CA

Counties Santa Barbara County, CA, Ventura County, CA

The radar

The Los Angeles radar (KVTX), 37 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:07 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, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 286 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 2026-07-22Temperature 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 2026-07-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -46 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
1081 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
2 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-46 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
14 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
Jul 21, 8:14 PM PDTSmall Craft AdvisoryLOX52 hr
Jul 22, 11:16 AM PDTBeach Hazards StatementLOXLos Angeles, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Ventura10 days
Jul 22, 1:11 PM PDTGale WarningLOX14 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.