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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Hanford, CA

October 10, 2000Kings County, California

NWS Hanford, CA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 10, 2000, 5:33 PM PDT for Kings County, California. It was in force for 27 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
Oct 10, 2000, 5:33 PM PDT (00:33 UTC)
Expired
Oct 10, 2000, 6:00 PM PDT
In force
27 min
Issued by
NWS Hanford, CA
Area
Whole counties

County Kings County, CA

The nearest sounding before it

Vandenberg AFB, CA (KVBG), launched 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 162 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Vandenberg AFB, CA at 00:00Z on 2000-10-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Vandenberg AFB, CA at 00:00Z on 2000-10-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 10 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
1 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
594 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
10 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
12 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
WUUS56 KHNX 110035
SVRFAT
CAC031-110100-

BULLETIN-EAS ACTIVATION REQUIRED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HANFORD CA
533 PM PDT TUE OCT 10 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HANFORD HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHWESTERN KINGS COUNTY IN CENTRAL CALIFORNIA

* UNTIL 600 PM PDT

* AT 530 PM PDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM JUST NORTHEAST OF KETTLEMAN CITY ALONG
  HIGHWAY 41...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE...
  EAST OF KETTLEMAN CITY NEAR THE TULARE LAKE BED AT 545 PM PDT

THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF LARGE HAIL. GO INSIDE A STURDY
BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS!

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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.