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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 11, NWS Hanford, CA

December 16, 2002Tulare County, California

NWS Hanford, CA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Dec 16, 2002, 5:31 PM PST for Tulare County, California. It was in force for 29 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: Dec 16, 2002, 5:31 PM PST (01:31 UTC)
Expired: Dec 16, 2002, 6:00 PM PST
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS Hanford, CA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Tulare County, CA

The radar

The San Joaquin Valley radar (KHNX), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:33 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Vandenberg AFB, CA (KVBG), launched 00:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 226 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 76 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -5 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 679 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 102 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -58 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 86 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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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 Dec 16, 3:10 PM PST, 2 hours 21 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 16, 3:10 PM PST, 2 hours 21 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Dec 16, 5:32 PM PST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HNX	Tulare	28 min
Dec 16, 6:00 PM PST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HNX	Tulare	30 min
Dec 17, 1:20 PM PST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HNX	Kern, Tulare	40 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.