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Tornado Warning 6, NWS Hanford, CA

May 13, 1995Fresno County, California

NWS Hanford, CA issued this tornado warning at May 13, 1995, 7:18 AM PDT for Fresno County, California. It was in force for 57 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 13, 1995, 7:18 AM PDT (14:18 UTC)
Expired
May 13, 1995, 8:15 AM PDT
In force
57 min
Issued by
NWS Hanford, CA
Area
Whole counties

County Fresno County, CA

The nearest sounding before it

Lompoc (Awos), CA (KLPC), launched 12:00Z, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 242 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Lompoc (Awos), CA at 12:00Z on 1995-05-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 58 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Lompoc (Awos), CA at 12:00Z on 1995-05-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -60 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
58 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
612 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
73 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-60 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
53 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Hanford, CA issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 13, 2:20 PM PDTTornado WarningHNXFresno70 min
May 13, 3:09 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHNXFresno, Kings66 min
May 13, 3:59 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHNXTulare61 min

Nearby

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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.