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special marine
At 403 PM PST, a strong storm capable of producing waterspouts was located just off the coast of Newport Beach and Laguna Beach, moving east at 20 knots. Additional strong storms are expected off the coast of LA and Orange counties.  
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special marine
At 315 PM PST, severe thunderstorms capable of producing waterspouts were located along a line extending from 8 nm northwest of Santa Monica Pier to 8 nm north of Santa Barbara Island, moving east at 25 knots.  
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At 218 PM PST, several severe thunderstorm capable of producing waterspouts were located across the Santa Barbara Channel and near Channel Islands National Park, with storms moving east towards the coast.  
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At 209 PM PST, severe thunderstorms capable of producing waterspouts were located along a line extending from near Point Mugu to 16 nm north of San Nicolas Island, moving east at 20 knots.  
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CA
At 144 PM PST, a severe thunderstorm was located over Oxnard, moving northeast at 20 mph.  
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special marine
At 117 PM PST, severe thunderstorms capable of producing waterspouts were located along a line extending from 10 nm south of Rincon Point to 22 nm northwest of San Nicolas Island, moving southeast at 20 knots.  
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special marine
At 111 PM PST, showers were located along a line extending from Del Mar to 16 nm southwest of Point Loma, moving northeast at 35 knots.  
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special marine
At 1250 PM PST, severe thunderstorms capable of producing waterspouts were located along a line extending from 6 nm west of Rincon Point to 27 nm northwest of San Nicolas Island, moving northeast at 15 knots.  
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At 1215 PM PST, showers were located along a line extending from 8 nm southeast of Dana Point to 27 nm southwest of Point Loma, moving east at 15 knots.  
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special marine
At 1202 PM PST, severe thunderstorms capable of producing waterspouts were located along a line extending from 13 nm east of Point Conception to 25 nm south of Santa Rosa Island, moving east at 20 knots.  
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special marine
At 1148 AM PST, severe thunderstorms capable of producing waterspouts were located along a line extending from 9 nm west of Pismo Beach to 10 nm west of Point Sal, moving northeast at 20 knots.  
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special marine
At 1130 AM PST, severe thunderstorms capable of producing waterspouts were located along a line extending from 8 nm south of Port of Los Angeles to 28 nm southeast of Avalon, moving east at 30 knots.  
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special marine
At 1113 AM PST, severe thunderstorms capable of producing waterspouts were located along a line extending from Cambria to 20 nm west of Point Sal, moving east at 20 knots.  
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special marine
At 1110 AM PST, severe thunderstorms capable of producing waterspouts were located along a line extending from 8 nm north of Point Arguello to 20 nm southwest of San Miguel Island, moving east at 20 knots.  
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CA
At 1046 AM PST, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from Encino to 14 miles northwest of Two Harbors, moving northeast at 40 mph.  
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special marine
At 1030 AM PST, severe thunderstorms capable of producing waterspouts were located along a line extending from 15 nm north of Santa Monica Pier to 11 nm west of Point Vicente, moving north at 20 knots.  
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special marine
At 1006 AM PST, severe thunderstorms capable of producing waterspouts were located along a line extending from 11 nm northeast of Rincon Point to near Ventura Harbor, moving northeast at 20 knots.  
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At 939 AM PST, severe thunderstorms capable of producing waterspouts were located along a line extending from 6 nm southwest of Point Mugu to near Santa Barbara Island, moving east at 30 knots.  
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special marine
At 914 AM PST, severe thunderstorms capable of producing waterspouts were located along a line extending from 8 nm west of Rincon Point to near Anacapa Island, moving east at 20 knots.  
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special marine
At 830 AM PST, severe thunderstorms capable of producing waterspouts were located along a line extending from near West Point Santa Cruz Island to 21 nm southeast of Santa Rosa Island, moving northeast at 30 knots.  
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things you should know about this experimental live-updating page

  1. Warnings are delayed. If you are currently affected by severe storms, you should also be paying attention to a local source of information (tv, radio, etc), or have a weather radio, because information on this site can be delayed enough that it could cause you to lose valuable lead time.
  2. The map sometimes breaks in odd ways. At this time, I'm not sure of the actual cause, but every so often, the mapping software will basically lose track of the actual center of the map. It's most obvious when part of the map is black (it's not loading the background). Also, you may notice this bug when you zoom to a specific location or warning, and the map is not centered properly.

    How to fix: The easiest thing is to reload the page. Otherwise, you can try the following to get the map to fix itself:

    1. enter/exit fullscreen map mode
    2. resize the browser window (if a desktop)
    3. change the orientation of the screen (if a tablet/mobile device)
    4. add a new location marker (you can delete the new marker later)

  3. There is experimental voice notifications support. To my knowledge, this only works in the Chrome and Safari browsers. Chrome's default English voice will randomly stop with long text, so I've tried to break up the text into smaller chunks so this doesn't happen. However, this can lead to awkward pauses when it's speaking.
  4. There is now support for tracking custom locations. If you have voice notifications enabled, it will tell you which locations are impacted when it reads new warnings.
  5. Radar on the map will automatically refresh every 5 minutes.
  6. This page is under active development. And things tend to break. A lot. If you think something is wrong, you can reload the page. You can also use the normal severe weather map page which has the same data but does not automatically update.

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