Alert archive / California / Tornado Warnings in 1993
Tornado Warning 2, NWS Hanford, CA
NWS Hanford, CA issued this tornado warning at Feb 23, 1993, 2:21 PM PST for Kern County, California. It was in force for 54 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 23, 1993, 2:21 PM PST (22:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 23, 1993, 3:15 PM PST
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hanford, CA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Kern County, CA
The nearest sounding before it
Edwards AFB, CA (KEDW), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 98 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
- 498 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 66 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 286 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 368 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KBFL 232223 TORBFL CAC029-232315- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BAKERSFIELD CA 221 PM PST TUE FEB 23 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BAKERSFIELD HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 315 PM PST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...... IN CENTRAL CALIFORNIA ...NORTH CENTRAL KERN COUNTY A FUNNEL CLOUD HAS BEEN SIGHTED BY THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BAKERSFIELD HALFWAY BETWEEN MCFARLAND AND WASCO. THIS FUNNEL CLOUD HAS DEVELOPED AND DECREASED TWICE IN THE PAST 15 MINUTES. THIS FUNNEL CLOUD HAS THE POTENTIAL OF TOUCHING DOWN IN THE VICINITY OF MCFARLAND. THE STORM IS MOVING TOWARD THE EAST AT 15 MPH. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM SITUATION. ACT QUICKLY. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO M0OVE TO A SHELTER BELOW GROUND IF AVAILABLE. OTHERWISE...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE. AVOID WINDOWS. ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES FOR A REINFORCED BUILDING OR GET INTO A DITCH OR CULVERT. WELLIVER
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Feb 23, 12:46 PM PST, 1 hour 35 minutes before
CAZ005-232200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FRESNO CA 1245 PM PST TUE FEB 23 1993 ...HAIL ALONG HIGHWAY 99 NEAR CHOWCHILLA... AT 1230 PM..A WEATHER SPOTTER REPORTED HEAVY HAIL IN THE VICINITY OF CHOWCHILLA. ONE INCH OF SMALL HAIL WAS REPORTED TO HAVE COVERED THE ROAD. CURRENT WEATHER CONDITIONS CAN SUPPORT HEAVY SHOWERS WITH SMALL HAIL POSSIBLE THROUGH THIS EVENING. PERSONS SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR POOR VISIBILITIES AND S@LIPPERY DRIVING CONDITIONS WHEN DRIVING INTO HEAVIER SHOWERS. GREISS
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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.