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Wind Advisory 16, NWS Phoenix, AZ
NWS Phoenix, AZ issued this wind advisory at May 14, 2026, 11:04 AM PDT for Imperial County, Riverside County, San Bernardino County, California. It took effect at May 16, 2026, 2:00 PM PDT. It was in force for 43 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 14, 2026, 11:04 AM PDT (18:04 UTC)
- In effect from
- May 16, 2026, 2:00 PM PDT
- Expired
- May 18, 2026, 8:32 AM PDT
- In force
- 43 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Phoenix, AZ
Counties Imperial County, CA, Riverside County, CA, San Bernardino County, CA
The radar
The San Diego radar (KNKX), 154 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:05 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, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 174 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 699 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 24 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 19 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.