Alert archive / California / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Los Angeles, CA

May 27, 1995Inyo County, Kern County, California

NWS Los Angeles, CA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 27, 1995, 4:17 PM PDT for Inyo County, Kern County, California. It was in force for 58 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 27, 1995, 4:17 PM PDT (23:17 UTC)
Expired
May 27, 1995, 5:15 PM PDT
In force
58 min
Issued by
NWS Los Angeles, CA
Area
Whole counties

Counties Inyo County, CA, Kern County, CA

The nearest sounding before it

Mercury/Desert R, NV (KDRA), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 201 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, Mercury/Desert R, NV at 12:00Z on 1995-05-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Mercury/Desert R, NV at 12:00Z on 1995-05-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -21 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
2937 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-21 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
50 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 Los Angeles, CA issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 27, 4:17 PM PDTFlash Flood WarningLOXSan Bernardino58 min
May 27, 4:17 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLOXSan Bernardino58 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in California, 1995Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1995

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.