1 funnel cloud, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
The local office's own words before the first event, 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 the first event at Apr 14, 1:30 PM PST, 5 hours 33 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN DIEGO CA 230 PM PDT FRI APR 14 2006 .SYNOPSIS...A STORM SYSTEM WILL BRING SHOWERS WITH POSSIBLE THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH TONIGHT. A FEW SHOWERS COULD LINGER INTO SATURDAY MORNING. LOCAL STRONG GUSTY WINDS WILL ACCOMPANY THIS STORM...MAINLY IN THE MOUNTAINS AND DESERTS. A DEEP MARINE LAYER AND MOIST WESTERLY FLOW ALOFT WILL BRING VARIABLE CLOUDINESS NEXT WEEK. && .DISCUSSION...FOR EXTREME SOUTHWESTERN CALIFORNIA INCLUDING ORANGE... SAN DIEGO...WESTERN RIVERSIDE AND SOUTHWESTERN SAN BERNARDINO COUNTIES. RAIN MOVED IN FROM THE WEST BY LATE THIS MORNING AND CONTINUES TO SPREAD INLAND. THE 12Z NKX SOUNDING SHOWED THE MID TO HIGH LEVEL MOISTURE. STRONG SW WINDS ALOFT WITH NEAR 160 KT WINDS AT 35 KFT. INCREASING ONSHORE GRADIENTS WITH ABOUT 7 MB SAN-IPL. THERE WERE ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS NEAR THE RIVERSIDE COUNTY MOUNTAIN FOOTHILLS AND MOUNTAINS EARLY THIS AFTERNOON. THE UPPER LOW AND ASSOCIATED COLD FRONT WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE THROUGH BRINGING SHOWERS AND A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS. THE BACK EDGE OF THE FRONT WILL MOVE THROUGH LATE THIS AFTERNOON WITH THE PRECIPITATION BECOMING MORE SHOWERY. WIDESPREAD RAINFALL TOTALS SHOULD RANGE FROM ABOUT A QUARTER INCH NEAR THE COAST TO AN INCH ON THE W FACING MOUNTAIN SLOPES. HOWEVER...THERE WILL BE LOCAL LARGER AMOUNTS IN CONVECTION OR WHERE TRAINING OCCURS. COLDER AIR ALOFT AND JET DYNAMICS WILL BRING A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS LATE THIS AFTERNOON INTO TONIGHT. LOCAL DENSE FOG IN THE MOUNTAINS AND FOOTHILLS THROUGH THIS EVENING. RESIDUAL MOISTURE...ISLAND EFFECTS AND OROGRAPHICS WILL CONTINUE A SMALL CHANCE OF SHOWERS OVER AND W OF THE MOUNTAINS INTO SAT MORNING. GRADIENTS AND WINDS ALOFT WILL CAUSE LOCAL STRONG GUSTY WINDS...MAINLY IN THE MOUNTAINS AND DESERTS WHERE THEY SHOULD REACH ADVISORY STRENGTH THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THE SNOW LEVEL WILL EVENTUALLY LOWER TO 6000-6500 FT TONIGHT. HOWEVER...NO WIDESPREAD LARGE SNOW ACCUMULATIONS ARE EXPECTED. HEIGHTS WILL INCREASE THIS WEEKEND AND EARLY NEXT WEEK BUT A DEEP MOIST LAYER WILL BRING PARTLY TO MOSTLY CLOUDY SKIES W OF THE MOUNTAINS AND WILL ALSO MODERATE ANY MAX TEMP INCREASE. THERE COULD EVEN BE A FEW SPRINKLES SUN...BUT CHANCES ARE TOO SMALL TO MENTION IN THE ZONES. LONGER RANGE PROGS INDICATE A DECREASING MARINE LAYER AND WARMING MID WEEK. ANOTHER TROUGH APPROACHING FROM THE NW WILL BRING MORE CLOUDS AND COOLING TOWARD THE END OF NEXT WEEK. && .AVIATION... BAND OF SHOWERS MOVING EASTWARD THROUGH THE AREA AROUND 9 KNOTS WILL BE EAST OF THE AREA THIS EVENING. MVFR TO LOCAL IFR CEILINGS/VISIBILITIES IN CLOUDS AND LIGHT TO MODERATE SHOWERS ASSOCIATED WITH THE BAND THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF THE AFTERNOON BECOMING MVFR TO LOCAL VFR THIS EVENING BEHIND THE BAND WITH SCATTERED TO BROKEN STRATOCU AROUND 2500 AND ANOTHER BROKEN LAYER AROUND 3500 TO 4000 FEET WITH TOPS AROUND 8000 FEET OVERNIGHT. SOME MVFR VISIBILITIES IN SHOWERS OTHERWISE MOSTLY VFR OVERNIGHT. && .SGX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... A SPRING STORM TO AFFECT EXTREME SOUTHWEST CALIFORNIA FRIDAY. SEE LAXSPSSGX. WIND ADVISORY FOR THE HIGHER MOUNTAINS AND DESERTS UNTIL MIDNIGHT TONIGHT. SEE LAXNPWSGX. HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK FOR SURF ZONES. SEE LAXSRFSGX. && PUBLIC...ATKIN AVIATION...HORTON
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN DIEGO CA 1000 AM PDT FRI APR 14 2006 CAZ042-043-048-050-055-056-057-058-060-061-062-151200- ORANGE COUNTY COASTAL AREAS- SAN DIEGO COUNTY COASTAL AREAS- SAN BERNARDINO AND RIVERSIDE COUNTY VALLEYS-THE INLAND EMPIRE- SAN DIEGO COUNTY VALLEYS- SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY MOUNTAINS- RIVERSIDE COUNTY MOUNTAINS- SANTA ANA MOUNTAINS AND FOOTHILLS- SAN DIEGO COUNTY MOUNTAINS- APPLE AND LUCERNE VALLEYS- COACHELLA VALLEY- SAN DIEGO COUNTY DESERTS- 1000 AM PDT FRI APR 14 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR ALL OF EXTREME SOUTHWESTERN CALIFORNIA. .DAY ONE... TODAY THROUGH TONIGHT. A STRONG...FAST MOVING STORM WILL BRING RAIN AND SOME THUNDERSTORMS WITH DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...SMALL HAIL...AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS. HEAVY RAIN MAY PRODUCE LOCAL URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOODING... THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. WIND ADVISORY FOR THE HIGHER MOUNTAINS AND FOR THE DESERTS UNTIL MIDNIGHT TONIGHT. SEE LAXNPWSGX. HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SKYWARN WEATHER SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL BE REQUESTED TODAY TO OBTAIN SPOTTER REPORTS IN ADDITION TO THOSE RECEIVED THROUGH STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES. WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER CONDITIONS. SKYWARN SHOULD REMAIN ACTIVATED FOR THIS STORM THROUGH TONIGHT. MM/ATKIN
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN DIEGO CA
733 PM PDT FRI APR 14 2006
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0700 PM FUNNEL CLOUD N DEL MAR 32.96N 117.26W
04/14/2006 SAN DIEGO CA STORM CHASER
SPOTTED AT 7PM N OF DEL MAR.
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NUELITOThe San Diego radar (KNKX), 28 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 03:01 UTC.
1 funnel cloud. Local standard time, as filed.
A funnel cloud over Del Mar was photographed by a trained spotter.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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