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Tornado Warning 4, NWS Hanford, CA

April 17, 2000Fresno County, California

NWS Hanford, CA issued this tornado warning at Apr 17, 2000, 7:40 PM PDT for Fresno County, California. It was in force for 30 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
Apr 17, 2000, 7:40 PM PDT (02:40 UTC)
Expired
Apr 17, 2000, 8:10 PM PDT
In force
30 min
Issued by
NWS Hanford, CA
Area
Whole counties

County Fresno County, CA

The nearest sounding before it

Vandenberg AFB, CA (KVBG), launched 00:00Z, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 238 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 2000-04-18Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 2000-04-18The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 20 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1109 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
57 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
20 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
76 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 
WFUS56 KHNX 180240
TORFAT
CAC019-180310-

BULLETIN-EAS ACTIVATION REQUIRED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HANFORD CA
740 PM PDT MON APR 17 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HANFORD HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHWESTERN FRESNO COUNTY IN CENTRAL CALIFORNIA

* UNTIL 810 PM PDT

* AT 735 PM... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  POSSIBLE TORNADO 5 MILES W OF FIVE POINTS... MOVING EAST AT 5 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  THE FIVE POINTS AREA BY 800 PM

TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY...IF POSSIBLE IN A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON
THE LOWEST FLOOR!

SANGER

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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.