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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 14, NWS Hanford, CA

May 4, 1998Kings County, California

NWS Hanford, CA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 4, 1998, 6:38 PM PDT for Kings County, California. It was in force for 37 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 4, 1998, 6:38 PM PDT (01:38 UTC)
Expired: May 4, 1998, 7:15 PM PDT
In force: 37 min
Issued by: NWS Hanford, CA
Area: Whole counties

County Kings County, CA

The radar

The San Joaquin Valley radar (KHNX), 31 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:39 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 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 May 4, 2:30 PM PDT, 4 hours 8 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 4, 2:30 PM PDT, 4 hours 8 minutes before

INTERIOR CENTRAL CALIFORNIA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY - HANFORD CA
230 PM PDT MON MAY 04 1998

HNX 88-D SHOWS SHWRS AND TSTMS DVLPG W SD SJV OVR NWRN FAT COUNTY AND
WRN MCE COUNTY. MODIFIED SOUNDINGS GAVE AFTN LI/S OF -7 TO -9 AND HI
CAPES SO POTNL FOR MDT TSTMS THRU EVE HRS. AVN HS COLD POOL WTH TEMPS
COLDR THAN -21 C OVR CNTRL CA THRU 18Z WED AND STGST 850 MB RH/OMEGA
FIELDS TUE AFTN. 15Z MESO HS 850 MB CAPES OF 700-800 OVR CNTRL CA TUE
AFTN AND MODIFIED FCST FAT SNDG FOR 00Z WED GIVES CAPE OF 1500. THUS XPC
CONTD CHC AFTN/EVE TSTMS TUE WTH SOM MDT/STG CELLS.

UPSLOPE CLDS FORMG S SLOPES TSP MTNS AND CUD SEE SOM SPILL-OVR INTO FAR
S END SJV ESPCLY VCNTY TAFT/MARICOPA. SAT PIX SHO WK VORT APRCHG CA CST
NR SBA COUNTY. CIRCLN ARND VORT TRIGRG MTN CLDS AND AS VORT MOVS INLND
WL SEE SOM SHWRS THS EVE THRU OVRNGT HRS TSP MTNS. SN LVLS WL RNG FM
6.5K FT NR YNP TO 7K FT TSP MTNS WTH LTL CHG THRU FCST PD.

SAT LOOP SHOWS UPR LO NR 33N/131W SLOLY MOVG ESEWD TWD CA CST S VBG.
NXT SYS...CURR NR 56N/170W...WL BE KICKER TO SPEED 1ST LO ACRS CA
TUE/WED.

UNSETTLED WX TO CONT INTO WED WTH LTST MRF SHWG UPR LOW OVR CA. DCRSG
CHC OF SHWRS THU AS LO SHFTS E. TEMPS TO RMN MILD THRU MIDWK.

POPS FAT BFL 8865 YNP 9987. SANGER

.HNX...NONE.

FAT WE 057/072 053/075 054 90886
BFL WE 056/073 054/076 053 90886
YNP WW 045/053 044/056 043 90998

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 4, 2:27 PM PDT, 4 hours 11 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY - HANFORD CA
0230 PM PST MON MAY 04 1998

TIME(PST)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0600 PM    3 NE BAKERSFIELD          CA   FLOODING
05/02/98   KERN                           RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAIN
                                          FLOODED STREETS AND SOME
                                          HOMES IN NE BAKERSFIELD.
                                          1.5" RAIN IN 1 HOUR WITH
                                          HIGHER AMOUNTS LIKELY BASED
                                          ON RADAR ESTIMATES. TRAFFIC
                                     t     ACCIDENTS DUE TO HYDROPLANING
                                          HIGHWAY 178 CLOSED.

DAN GUDGEL...WARNING COORDINATION METEOROLOGIST
NWSO SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY CA

Local storm report, May 4, 3:30 PM PDT, 3 hours 8 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY - HANFORD CA
0230 PM PST MON MAY 04 1998

TIME(PST)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0600 PM    3 NE BAKERSFIELD          CA   FLOODING
05/02/98   KERN                           RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAIN
                                          FLOODED STREETS AND SOME
                                          HOMES IN NE BAKERSFIELD.
                                          1.5 RAIN IN 1 HOUR WITH
                                          HIGHER AMOUNTS LIKELY BASED
                                          ON RADAR ESTIMATES. TRAFFIC
                                          ACCIDENTS DUE TO HYDROPLANING
                                          HIGHWAY 178 CLOSED.

DAN GUDGEL...WARNING COORDINATION METEOROLOGIST
NWSO SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY CA

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 4, 5:54 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HNX	Kings	31 min
May 5, 2:11 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HNX	Kern	54 min
May 5, 2:23 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HNX	Fresno, Kings	57 min
May 5, 3:27 PM PDT	Flash Flood Warning	HNX	Kern	118 min
May 5, 4:38 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HNX	Merced	47 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.