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Wind Advisory 1, NWS Phoenix, AZ

January 7, 2026Imperial County, California

NWS Phoenix, AZ issued this wind advisory at Jan 7, 2026, 11:36 AM PST for Imperial County, California. It took effect at Jan 7, 2026, 10:00 PM PST. It was in force for 16 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jan 7, 2026, 11:36 AM PST (19:36 UTC)
In effect from: Jan 7, 2026, 10:00 PM PST
Expired: Jan 8, 2026, 2:00 PM PST
In force: 16 hr
Issued by: NWS Phoenix, AZ

County Imperial County, CA

The radar

The Yuma radar (KYUX), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:35 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

San Diego, CA (KNKX), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 23 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -17 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 728 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 57 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 7 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

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 Phoenix, AZ wrote its last area forecast discussion before this wind advisory went out at Jan 7, 10:02 AM PST, 1 hour 34 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 7, 10:02 AM PST, 1 hour 34 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Phoenix, AZ issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 7, 11:36 AM PST	Freeze Watch	PSR	Gila, Maricopa, Pinal	24 hr
Jan 7, 11:36 AM PST	Freeze Watch	PSR	Gila, La Paz, Maricopa, Pinal	24 hr

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.