Strong rip currents developed across the Southern California coastal waters.
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The episode as NWS LOX wrote it up.
Strong rip currents developed across the Southern California coastal waters.
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 Los Angeles, CA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Sep 23, 9:40 AM PST, 20 minutes earlier.
SOUTHWEST CALIFORNIA AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED AVN NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOS ANGELES/OXNARD CA 1040 AM PDT SUN SEP 23 2007 UPDATED AVIATION SECTION .SHORT TERM...PLENTY OF RESIDUAL LOW LVL MSTR ACROSS THE FCST AREA THIS MORNING...WITH LOTS OF STRATOCU...ESPECIALLY IN THE MTNS AND ACROSS THE INTERIOR VLYS. EXPECT PTLY CLDY SKIES ACROSS THE FCST AREA FOR MOST OF TODAY...BUT DO NOT XPCT ANYTHING MORE THAN A FEW SPRINKLES...AND THOSE WOULD LIKELY BE CONFINED TO THE FOOTHILLS AND MTNS. WITH MORE IN THE WAY OF SUNSHINE TODAY...AND WITH RISING HGTS/THICKNESSES BEHIND THE DEPARTING UPPER LOW...MAX TEMPS WILL LIKELY BE SEVERAL DEGREES WARMER THAN ON SAT IN MOST AREAS...ALTHOUGH STILL SEVERAL DEGREES BELOW NORMAL FOR THIS TIME OF YEAR. HGTS/THICKNESSES WILL RISE STEADILY ACRS THE AREA THROUGH TUE. PRES GRADS WILL TURN NLY LATER TONIGHT/TONIGHT...WITH SOME LOCALLY GUSTY WINDS POSSIBLE THRU AND BELOW PASSES AND CANYONS OF SRN SBA COUNTY AND NEAR THE INTERSTATE 5 CORRIDOR. WINDS SHOULD REMAIN WELL BELOW ADVISORY LVLS. GRADS WILL TURN OFFSHORE TONIGHT/MON MORNING...THEN OFFSHORE GRADS WILL INCREASE MON NIGHT/TUE MORNING. EXPECT SOME LOCALLY GUSTY NELY WINDS IN THE MTNS MON MORNING...WITH MORE WDSPRD WINDS IN THE MTNS MON NIGHT/TUE MORNING. ALTHOUGH UPPER SUPPORT IS NOT IMPRESSIVE ENOUGH FOR ADVISORY LVL WINDS...THERE SHOULD STILL BE SOME LOCALLY GUSTY WINDS THRU AND BELOW PASSES AND CANYONS IN THE VLYS OF L.A./VTU COUNTIES AND POSSIBLY PORTIOS OF THE CSTL PLAIN MON NIGHT/TUE MORNING. HOWEVER...WINDS SHOULD REMAIN WELL BELOW ADVISORY LVLS. SKIES WILL BE MOSTLY CLEAR MON THROUGH TUE. THERE WILL BE SEVERAL DEGREES OF WARMING EACH DAY...ESPECIALLY W OF THE MTNS...AND WARMER LOCATIONS IN THE VLYS WILL LIKELY REACH OR EXCEED 90 DEGREES BY TUE...WITH MOST AREAS WEST OF THE MTNS EXPERIENCING ABOVE NORMAL TEMPS BY TUE. .LONG TERM...HGTS STAY QUITE HIGH ACRS THE AREA WED...WHICH WILL LIKELY BE THE WARMEST DAY. THE EXCEPTION MAY BE ACRS THE CSTL PLAIN...WHERE A RETURN TO ONSHORE FLOW MAY INDUCE SLIGHT COOLING. A WEAK TROUGH WILL APCH THE W CST THU. HGTS WILL FALL A BIT ACRS THE AREA ON THU...AND ONSHORE FLOW WILL INCREASE SOME. XPCT A FEW DEGREES OF COOLING IN MOST AREAS W OF THE MTNS ON THU...BUT IT SHOULD STILL BE A RATHER WARM DAY IN MOST AREAS. LOW CLDS MAY BEGIN TO RETURN TO THE CSTL PLAIN THU MORNING...BUT SHOULD BE MORE WDPSRD THU NIGHT/FRI MORNING AS THE WEAK TROUGH DEEPENS A BIT AND MOVES INTO THE W CST. XPCT SEVERAL DEGREES OF COOLING ACRS THE AREA ON FRI...WITH MOSTLY MINOR CHANGES ON SAT AS A BAGGY TROUGH LINGERS ACRS THE AREA. && .AVIATION...AT 1745Z...OR 1045 PDT...ONSET OF THE SEABREEZE OVER KLAX AND KBUR WILL LIKELY BE DELAYED AS WEAK LOW LEVEL TROUGH APPROACHING POINT CONCEPTION GRADUALLY DISSIPATES WEST SAN MIGUEL ISLAND THROUGH EARLY AFTERNOON. CHANCE OF CIGS 035 OVER KLAX BEFORE THE ONSET OF THE SEABREEZE WHILE CIGS OVER KBUR ARE MORE LIKELY THAN NOT WITH THE AFTERNOON HEATING. CHANCE OF LIGHT EAST WINDS OVER KLAX MON MORNING AS HIGH PRESSURE BUILDS INLAND. .LOX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY (SEE LAXCWFLOX). HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK (SEE LAXSRFLOX). && PUBLIC...BRUNO AVIATION...FORWOOD WWW.WEATHER.GOV/LOSANGELES
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOS ANGELES/OXNARD CA 559 PM PDT SAT SEP 22 2007 CAZ034>041-044>047-051>054-059-087-088-231300- SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY CENTRAL COAST- SANTA BARBARA COUNTY CENTRAL COAST-SANTA YNEZ VALLEY- SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY INTERIOR VALLEYS-CUYAMA VALLEY- SANTA BARBARA COUNTY SOUTH COAST-VENTURA COUNTY COAST- LOS ANGELES COUNTY COAST INCLUDING DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES- VENTURA COUNTY INTERIOR VALLEYS-VENTURA COUNTY COASTAL VALLEYS- SANTA MONICA MOUNTAINS RECREATIONAL AREA- LOS ANGELES COUNTY VALLEYS-SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY MOUNTAINS- SANTA BARBARA COUNTY MOUNTAINS-VENTURA COUNTY MOUNTAINS- LOS ANGELES COUNTY MOUNTAINS EXCLUDING THE SANTA MONICA RANGE- ANTELOPE VALLEY-CATALINA ISLAND-SANTA CLARITA VALLEY- 559 PM PDT SAT SEP 22 2007 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHWESTERN CALIFORNIA. .DAY ONE... TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER CONDITIONS ACCORDING TO STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES. HALL
1 rip current. Local standard time, as filed.
A woman nearly drowned at Mandalay State Beach in Oxnard when a rip current dragged her under the water. The woman jumped into an inshore hole and was caught by a rip current.
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