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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Sacramento, CA

July 5, 2000Tehama County, California

NWS Sacramento, CA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 5, 2000, 5:04 PM PDT for Tehama County, California. It was in force for 46 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
Jul 5, 2000, 5:04 PM PDT (00:04 UTC)
Expired
Jul 5, 2000, 5:50 PM PDT
In force
46 min
Issued by
NWS Sacramento, CA
Area
Whole counties

County Tehama County, CA

The nearest sounding before it

Medford/Jackson, OR (KMFR), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 254 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, Medford/Jackson, OR at 00:00Z on 2000-07-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 168 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Medford/Jackson, OR at 00:00Z on 2000-07-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 7 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
168 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-14 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1188 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
9 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
7 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
5 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.

488 
WUUS56 KSTO 060004
SVRSAC
CAC103-060050-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SACRAMENTO CA
504 PM PDT WED JUL 5 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SACRAMENTO HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  TEHAMA COUNTY IN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA

* UNTIL 550 PM PDT

* AT 500 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM JUST WEST OF RED BLUFF... MOVING TO
  THE SOUTHEAST 5 TO 10 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE
  JUST SOUTHWEST OF RED BLUFF TOWARD CORNING BETWEEN 530 TO 550 PM.

DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL ARE LIKELY. GO INSIDE A STURDY
BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS

JHM

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 5, 5:28 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSTOGlenn32 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.