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High Surf Advisory 3, NWS San Diego, CA
NWS San Diego, CA issued this high surf advisory at Feb 14, 2026, 11:08 AM PST for Orange County, San Diego County, California. It took effect at Feb 16, 2026, 10:00 AM PST. It was in force for 4 days.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 14, 2026, 11:08 AM PST (19:08 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 16, 2026, 10:00 AM PST
- Expired
- Feb 20, 2026, 10:07 AM PST
- In force
- 4 days
- Issued by
- NWS San Diego, CA
Counties Orange County, CA, San Diego County, CA
The radar
The San Diego radar (KNKX), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:07 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, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 62 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1269 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 17 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 21 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this high surf advisory went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS San Diego, CA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this high surf advisory went out at Feb 14, 3:23 AM PST, 7 hours 45 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 14, 3:23 AM PST, 7 hours 45 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS San Diego, CA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 14, 11:10 AM PST | Gale Watch | SGX | 14 hr | |
| Feb 14, 11:33 AM PST | High Wind Watch | SGX | Riverside, San Diego | 23 hr |
| Feb 14, 11:33 AM PST | Wind Advisory | SGX | Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego | 61 hr |
| Feb 14, 11:47 AM PST | Winter Storm Watch | SGX | Riverside, San Bernardino | 22 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.