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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 14, NWS Hanford, CA

December 17, 2002Kern County, Tulare County, California

NWS Hanford, CA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Dec 17, 2002, 1:20 PM PST for Kern County, Tulare County, California. It was in force for 40 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Dec 17, 2002, 1:20 PM PST (21:20 UTC)
Expired: Dec 17, 2002, 2:00 PM PST
In force: 40 min
Issued by: NWS Hanford, CA
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Kern County, CA, Tulare County, CA

The radar

The San Joaquin Valley radar (KHNX), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:23 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Dec 17, 1:45 PM PST	Hail 0.75	Ducor, CA

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

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, 22 hours 10 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 16, 3:10 PM PST, 22 hours 10 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, 5:31 PM PST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HNX	Tulare	29 min
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

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in California, 2002 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2002

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.