Alert archive / California / Flash Flood Warnings in 1998
Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Hanford, CA
NWS Hanford, CA issued this flash flood warning at Feb 2, 1998, 7:45 AM PST for Kern County, California. It was in force for 4 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 2, 1998, 7:45 AM PST (15:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 2, 1998, 12:00 PM PST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Hanford, CA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Kern County, CA
The nearest sounding before it
Lompoc (Awos), CA (KLPC), launched 12:00Z, 3.8 hours before the alert went out and 170 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
- 6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -24 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 614 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -15 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 425 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 KFAT 021544 FFWFAT CAC029-022000- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HANFORD CA 745 AM PST MON FEB 2 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HANFORD HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1200 PM PST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH CALIFORNIA ...WESTERN KERN COUNTY AT 7:35 AM DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED HEAVY RAIN IN THE VICINITY OF TAFT AND MARICOPA IN WESTERN KERN COUNTY...ABOUT 20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BAKERSFIELD. DOPPLER RADAR PRECIPITATION ESTIMATES HAVE INCREASED TO 1 TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN OVER THE LAST SEVERAL HOURS IN THIS AREA. CALIFORNIA HIGHWAY PATROL INDICATED THAT HIGHWAY 166 IS CLOSED BETWEEN OLD RIVER ROAD TO THE TOWN OF MARICOPA. COPUS ROAD IS ALSO CLOSED BETWEEN OLD RIVER ROAD AND INTERSTATE FIVE. THE REMAINDER OF HIGHWAY 166 IS ALSO THREATENED AND COULD CLOSE. FLASH FLOODING IS POSSIBLE IN THIS REGION OF KERN COUNTY. IF YOUR VEHICLE STALLS WHILE CROSSING WATER...ABANDON IT IMMEDIATELY. RAPIDLY RISING WATER MAY ENGULF YOUR VEHICLE AND ITS OCCUPANTS AND SWEEP YOU AWAY. MOST FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN VEHICLES. KRUZDLO
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood 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 flash flood warning went out at Feb 2, 3:15 AM PST, 4 hours 30 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 2, 3:15 AM PST, 4 hours 30 minutes before
INTERIOR CENTRAL CALIFORNIA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY - HANFORD CA
315 AM PST MON FEB 02 1998
WELL...LOOKING ON THE BRIGHT SIDE...FOG WILL NOT BE A PROB DURING THE
NEXT TWO DAYS. HWVR...JUST ABOUT EVERY OTHER KIND OF WX WILL BE A PROB
THOUGH. DVLPG SYS...NR 140W...ALREADY SPREDG RAIN IN KERN CNTY. PCPN
ALNG FRMG WRM FNT WHICH WL PUSH N THROUGH FA TDA. RAIN TO INCR OVR
ENTIRE RGN DURG DAY WITH ALL MDLS INDICATING TREMENDOUS RAIN POTENTIAL
OVR FA DURG NXT 36 HRS.
IN SJV...AS WRM FNT CONTS TO DEVELP AND MOV N...IT WL MOV PCPN N WITH
IT. SO XPCT PCPN IN KERN CNTY TO MOV N WITH WRM FNT SO SRN SECTIONS TO
SEE A DECR IN PCPN THIS AFTN. CNTRL SECTIONS OF SJV TO SEE PCPN INCR
DURG DAY AS WRM FNT APPROACHES AND PASSES TO THE N. THEN OVRNIGHT
TONIGHT...PCPN MOVS SE DN THE VLY AGN AS COLD FNT MOV IN FM THE WEST.
BTWN THE PASSING OF THE WRM FNT TO THE N TDA AND THE COLD FNT MOVG IN
FM THE WEST TONIGHT WILL BE WINDY. WND ADV IN EFFECT FOR SJV FOR THIS
AFTN AND TONIGHT WITH FAR S END MOST LIKELY TO HV HIGHEST GUSTS.
RAMSDIS INDICATED PW/S IN EXCESS OF 1 INCH WHICH WL LEAD TO FLOODING
PROB WHEN UPCOMING HVY RAIN WL BE COMBINED WITH PREV RAIN DURG PAST
THREE DAYS.
IN MTNS...FLO ALF WL RMN FM SW FOR NXT 24-36 HRS. THAT WL BE BIGGER
FACTOR IN PRODUCING A STEADY SUPPLY OF RAIN AND NOT INFLUENCED AS MUCH
BY THE DEVLOPG SURFACE WRM FNT/COLD FNT. SNOW LEVEL TO RISE TO 7K OR
ABV AND RMN THERE TIL AFT FN PASSES TUE. FLOODING PROBS TO BE HAD IN
MTNS AS WELL WITH 5+ INCHES OF RAIN POSS THRU TUE. AS STG SFC LOW MOVS
TOWRD CA CST...XPT SE WND TO DEVLP IN TSP MTNS...ESP ALONG HIGHWAY 58
IN TEHACHAPI PASS. CLOUD SEE HIGH WINDS THERE SO HV ISSUED HW WATCH FOR
THIS AFTN AND TONIGHT. SEE ALL WATCH/WRN/ADV/S BLO.
KERN DESERTS COULD SEE BRIEF HVY RAIN THIS AM AND AGN TONIGHT BUT AT
PRESENT AM NOT XPCTG AND WND OR FLOOD PROB WITH CURRNT WX PTRN...YET.
DC
FAT RR 063/052 060/044 057 98+++
BFL RR 068/054 062/045 058 98+++
YNP RR 047/038 045/035 040 98+++
.HNX...WINTER STORM WARNING FOR THE SOUTHERN SIERRA NEVADA ABOVE 7000
FEET NORTH OF KERN COUNTY THROUGH TUESDAY...ZONES 22/23
FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR THE SOUTHERN SIERRA NEVADA AND TEHACHAPI
MOUNTAINS BELOW 7000 FEET AND THE CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN SAN
JOAQUIN VALLEY THROUGH TUESDAY...ZONES 20/21/22/23/24
WIND ADVISORY THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH TONIGHT FOR THE CENTRAL AND
SOUTHERN SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY...ZONES 20/21
HIGH WIND WATCH FOR THE KERN COUNTY MOUNTAINS THIS AFTERNOON
THROUGH TONIGHT...ZONE 24.In the hours before
Special weather statement, Feb 2, 5:35 AM PST, 2 hours 10 minutes before
CAZ024-021400- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY - HANFORD CA 535 AM PST MON FEB 02 1998 ...HIGH WIND WATCH FOR THE KERN COUNTY MOUNTAINS THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT... ...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY FOR THE KERN COUNTY MOUNTAINS CANCELLED... A STRONG PACIFIC STORM IS BRINGING RAIN AND HIGH WINDS TO THE KERN COUNTY MOUNTAINS TODAY. THE SNOW LEVEL WILL BE HIGH...ABOVE 7000 FEET TODAY BEFORE LOWERING TO 6000 FEET TUESDAY. AS ANY SNOW ACCUMULATIONS WILL BE CONFINED TO THE HIGHEST ELEVATIONS OF THE KERN COUNTY MOUNTAINS...THE WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY THAT HAD BEEN ISSUED FOR THE KERN COUNTY MOUNTAINS HAS BEEN CANCELLED. THE STORM WILL BE ACCOMPANIED BY STRONG SOUTH TO SOUTHEAST WINDS 20 TO 40 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 60 MPH POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A HIGH WIND WATCH FOR THE KERN COUNTY MOUNTAINS FOR THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH TONIGHT. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR FAVORITE NEWS SOURCE FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION. SANGER
Special weather statement, Feb 2, 5:35 AM PST, 2 hours 10 minutes before
CAZ024-021400- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY - HANFORD CA 535 AM PST MON FEB 02 1998 ...HIGH WIND WATCH FOR THE KERN COUNTY MOUNTAINS THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT... ...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY FOR THE KERN COUNTY MOUNTAINS CANCELLED... A STRONG PACIFIC STORM IS BRINGING RAIN AND HIGH WINDS TO THE KERN COUNTY MOUNTAINS TODAY. THE SNOW LEVEL WILL BE HIGH...ABOVE 7000 FEET TODAY BEFORE LOWERING TO 6000 FEET TUESDAY. AS ANY SNOW ACCUMULATIONS WILL BE CONFINED TO THE HIGHEST ELEVATIONS OF THE KERN COUNTY MOUNTAINS...THE WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY THAT HAD BEEN ISSUED FOR THE KERN COUNTY MOUNTAINS HAS BEEN CANCELLED. THE STORM WILL BE ACCOMPANIED BY STRONG SOUTH TO SOUTHEAST WINDS 20 TO 40 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 60 MPH POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A HIGH WIND WATCH FOR THE KERN COUNTY MOUNTAINS FOR THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH TONIGHT. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR FAVORITE NEWS SOURCE FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION. SANGER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Hanford, CA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 2, 5:35 AM PST | Flash Flood Warning | HNX | Kern | 115 min |
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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.