Southern California Weather Force

National Weather Force has issued a Tornado Watch for West to Central Texas, including the Bend to San Antonio and Austin effective May 2nd, 2019.  Read on for details. At 11:30 am Central storms were trying to get going in Central Texas.  These storms will be forming along an outflow boundary that moved through Northern Texas yesterday.  As the afternoon […]

May 2019 will have a mixed temperature profile with key dates having excellent weather and the first major heatwave in the region so for details read on … The beginning of May we will have a slight bump in temperatures this weekend, followed by a cool-down as another cutoff system comes in early this next week.  This will bring a […]

Day two of severe weather in both states will happen today, this time closer to the populated metro areas, especially the Austin to Dallas-Fort Worth zones so read on for details. I ran the tornado mask I developed for tornadoes.  The tornado mask clearly shows storm development in the Austin forecast zones today.  This will be along the shear boundary […]

The Earthquake Watch that was supposed to close on April 24th was reissued over on another page, but this is a formal article stating the Earthquake Watch remains in effect with many smaller shakers across the watch area detected, including four 4.0 quakes and a near 4.0 with many 3.0s.  Goes to show you that warm weather does not cause […]

Latest radar and upper-level wind fields show the cutoff system directly over Big Bear Lake at the moment, with storms on the east side coming out of the south into Las Vegas, right on schedule, and the backside popping activity in the Kern Deserts, north to Inyo County along Highway 395, which will filter southward toward the Metro High Desert […]

Issued Zones:  Antelope Valley … Kern Desert … All San Bernardino County Deserts … Northern slopes of the Los Angeles / San Bernardino Mountains … The Cajon Pass … Site:  Southern California Weather Force has issued a Thunderstorm Watch effective now through today … Date:  4/29/19 at 6:15 am PT Forecast: As per the article yesterday (Click Here To Read […]

Issued Zones:  North and Western Santa Barbara County … Southern half of San Luis Obispo County … Central/West/Southwestern Kern County, including Bakersfield/PMC/Tehachapi/Taft … Site:  Southern California Weather Force has issued a Thunderstorm Watch effective now through Monday … Date:  4/28/19 at 5:20pm PT Forecast: Upper Divergence to the north of the upper level low overnight tonight into Monday morning is […]

A cutoff low will enter the region starting this afternoon for the Ventura and Santa Barbara County Mountains, increasing over the entire area through Monday.  Very alerts have been issued to the SCWF Email Alert System for certain zones.  Shower and Thunderstorm activity will be likely with this system depending on where you are.  It is a system of a […]

Issued Zones:  Los Angeles Desert … Metro High Desert to the Morongo Basin … Site:  Southern California Weather Force has issued a Fire Weather Watch effective now through this evening … Date:  4/28/19 at 10:45 am PT Forecast: The upper divergence zone of the cutoff low system will swing into the area this afternoon and evening.  This will briefly increase […]

Issued Zones:  Santa Barbara/Ventura Mountains… Kern Mountains PMC/Cuddy Valley … Site:  Southern California Weather Force has issued a Thunderstorm Watch effective now through Monday … Date:  4/28/19 at 10:16 pm PT Forecast:  cutoff system to the southwest and south of the region will bring upper divergence into play today.  This upper divergence will bring with it the higher later April […]