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Flash Flood Warning 8, NWS Hanford, CA

March 25, 1998Merced County, California

NWS Hanford, CA issued this flash flood warning at Mar 25, 1998, 6:21 AM PST for Merced County, California. It was in force for 3 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
Mar 25, 1998, 6:21 AM PST (14:21 UTC)
Expired
Mar 25, 1998, 9:30 AM PST
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Hanford, CA
Area
Whole counties

County Merced County, CA

The radar

The San Francisco radar (KMUX), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:22 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 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 Mar 24, 3:33 PM PST, 14 hours 48 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 24, 3:33 PM PST, 14 hours 48 minutes before
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.