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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 3, NWS Sacramento, CA

January 31, 1995Yuba County, California

NWS Sacramento, CA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 31, 1995, 9:12 PM PST for Yuba County, California. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jan 31, 1995, 9:12 PM PST (05:12 UTC)
Expired
Jan 30, 1995, 10:00 PM PST
In force
Issued by
NWS Sacramento, CA
Area
Whole counties

County Yuba County, CA

The nearest sounding before it

Oakland, CA (KOAK), launched 00:00Z, 5.2 hours before the alert went out and 186 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, Oakland, CA at 00:00Z on 1995-02-01Temperature 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, Oakland, CA at 00:00Z on 1995-02-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 19 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
1050 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
19 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
118 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm 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, Jan 31, 7:50 PM PST, 1 hour 22 minutes before
CAZ006-009-010600-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SACRAMENTO CA
750 PM PST TUE JAN 31 1
Special weather statement, Jan 31, 7:50 PM PST, 1 hour 22 minutes before
CAZ006-009-010600-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SACRAMENTO CA
750 PM PST TUE JAN 31 1

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 31, 8:30 PM PSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSTOColusa, Sutter45 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.