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Flash Flood Warning 4, NWS Hanford, CA

February 3, 1998Kern County, California

NWS Hanford, CA issued this flash flood warning at Feb 3, 1998, 10:30 AM PST for Kern County, California. It was in force for 2 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 3, 1998, 10:30 AM PST (18:30 UTC)
Expired: Feb 3, 1998, 12:30 PM PST
In force: 2 hr
Issued by: NWS Hanford, CA
Area: Whole counties

County Kern County, CA

The radar

The Edwards AFB radar (KEYX), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:41 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KFAT 031831
FFWFAT
CAC029-032030-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HANFORD CA
1030 AM PST TUE FEB 3 1998
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HANFORD HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1230 PM PST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTH CALIFORNIA
 
   ...WESTERN KERN COUNTY
 
AT 1025 AM PST...THE MCKITTRICK FIRE STATION REPORTED HEAVY RAINFALL IN
EXCESS OF ONE HALF INCH IN A HALF AN HOUR. DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
RAINFALL RATES IN EXCESS OF ONE INCH IN AN HOUR. AS A RESULT...A FLASH
FLOOD WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR WESTERN KERN COUNTY. THIS INCLUDES THE
PORTION OF HIGHWAY 33 FROM TAFT TO THE MISSOURI TRIANGLE...AND ALONG
HIGHWAY 58 FROM MCKITTRICK TO NEAR BUTTONWILLOW.
 
 
 
WHEN DRIVING DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR LOW SPOTS
IF WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. WHEN ON FOOT...NEVER TRY TO CROSS A
FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL ONE.
 
NESTER
 
 
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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 3, 8:30 AM PST, 2 hours earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 3, 8:30 AM PST, 2 hours before

INTERIOR CENTRAL CALIFORNIA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY - HANFORD CA
830 AM PST TUE FEB 03 1998

CDFNT MOVG INTO SJV ATTM WTH HVY RN W SD CNTRL SJV AND STG SLY WNDS AHD
FNT. WNDS GSTD TO 50KT AT BFL AT 09Z AND WNDS AT HNX HIT 36KT ARND 15Z.
RPTS RECVD DND TREES AND HV ISSUED HI WND WRNG ZNS 20/21 AND WND ADVSRY
ZNS 22/23 THRU 20Z. ALSO WL XTND WND ADVSRY ZN 24 TIL 20Z. ONLY STREET
FLDG RPTD W SD FAT CNTY AND HV LET FLASH FLD ADVSRY EXPIRE. AREA INCLDD
IN FLASH FLD WATCH AND URB/SML STRM FLD ADVSRY.

MDLS PROGG HI CAPES THS AFTN OVR CWFA AND SAT LOOP SHOWS LI/S -7 MOVG
TWD SRN CA CST. SELS DISCSN HS GNRL TSTMS OVR WRN 2/3 SJV AND TSP MTNS
AND CUD SEE TSTMS APRCH SVR LVLS OVR CWFA THS AFTN.

ATMOS WL RMN VRY MOIST TNGT SO MINS WL RMN IN 40S. WL SEE PATCHY FG
TNGT AFT SHWRS END. PTCLDY WED WTH LO CLDS PUSHD ONTO TSP MTNS. HVIER
FG WED NGT/THU MORN. NXT STORM DUE IN THU NGT/FRI AND ANTHR SUN. MDLS
PROG THESE STORMS TO TRACK MOR OVR NRN CA BUT IN PAST MDLS HV KPT
STORMS TOO FAR N.

POPS FAT BFL +50 YNP +52. SANGER

.HNX...WINTER STORM WARNING TODAY FOR THE SOUTHERN SIERRA NEVADA ABOVE
       7000 FEET NORTH OF KERN COUNTY...ZONES 22/23.
    ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR THE SOUTHERN SIERRA NEVADA NORTH OF KERN
       COUNTY BELOW 7000 FEET...THE KERN COUNTY MOUNTAINS AND THE
       CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY TODAY...ZONES
       20/21/22/23/24.
    ...URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY IN EFFECT TODAY FOR THE
       CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY...ZONES 20/21.
    ...HIGH WIND WARNING UNTIL NOON FOR THE CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN SAN
       JOAQUIN VALLEY...ZONES 20/21.
    ...WIND ADVISORY FOR THE SOUTHERN SIERRA NEVADA AND TEHACHAPI
       MOUNTAINS...ZONES 22/23/24.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Feb 3, 5:12 AM PST	Flash Flood Warning	HNX	Fresno	2 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in California, 1998 Every flash flood warning in 1998

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.