Alert archive / California / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Hanford, CA
NWS Hanford, CA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 22, 1996, 2:04 PM PST for Fresno County, California. It was in force for 26 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 22, 1996, 2:04 PM PST (22:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 22, 1996, 2:30 PM PST
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hanford, CA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Fresno County, CA
The radar
The San Joaquin Valley radar (KHNX), 49 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:06 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 22, 2:04 PM PST | Hail 1 | Fresno, CA |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The nearest sounding before it
Lompoc (Awos), CA (KLPC), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 25 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 554 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 9 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 61 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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.
NWS Hanford, CA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Nov 22, 8:27 AM PST, 5 hours 37 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Nov 22, 8:27 AM PST, 5 hours 37 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY HANFORD CA
830 AM PST FRI NOV 22 1996
HNX 88-D INDICATES SHOWERS ALONG THE SIERNV...IN THE VLY NR MCE AND
DEVELOPING ALONG THE COASTAL MTNS. WITH SATURATED GROUND AND MORE
PRECIP IN STORE TODAY...WILL EXTEND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADV FOR ZN22-23
UNTIL 4 PM TODAY. HAVE HAD SOME TSTMS THIS MORNING AND MORE POSSIBLE
THIS AFTN. IN COORDINATION WITH MRY WILL DOWNGRADE WSW TO AN ADVISORY.
LOOKS LIKE A RETURN TO A NIGHT AND MORNING FOG PATTERN OVER THE
WEEKEND WITH PLENTY OF LOW LEVEL MOISTURE TRAPPED IN THE VLY.
.HNX...WSW ZNS 22/23...SNOW ADVISORTY ABV 6K FT TDA.
...FFS ZN 22/23...SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVSRY UNTIL 23Z.
BEANThe office that day
Everything else NWS Hanford, CA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 22, 2:19 PM PST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HNX | Kings | 41 min |
| Nov 22, 2:43 PM PST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HNX | Kings | 32 min |
| Nov 22, 2:50 PM PST | Tornado Warning | HNX | Kings | 25 min |
| Nov 22, 3:25 PM PST | Tornado Warning | HNX | Kings | 35 min |
| Nov 22, 3:55 PM PST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HNX | Kern | 35 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.