Alert archive / California / Flash Flood Warnings in 2005
Flash Flood Warning 15, NWS Hanford, CA
NWS Hanford, CA issued this flash flood warning at Oct 18, 2005, 4:18 AM PDT for Kern County, California. It was in force for 117 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 18, 2005, 4:18 AM PDT (11:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 18, 2005, 6:15 AM PDT
- In force
- 117 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hanford, CA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Kern County, CA
The nearest sounding before it
Vandenberg AFB, CA (KVBG), launched 00:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 175 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 495 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 67 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 258 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood 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 flash flood warning went out at Oct 17, 8:50 PM PDT, 7 hours 28 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 17, 8:50 PM PDT, 7 hours 28 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Oct 17, 5:00 AM PDT, 23 hours 18 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY - HANFORD CA 500 AM PDT MON OCT 17 2005 CAZ089-090-093-181200- EAST CENTRAL SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY- MARIPOSA MADERA AND FRESNO COUNTY FOOTHILLS- WEST CENTRAL SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY- 500 AM PDT MON OCT 17 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE CENTRAL SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY...THE MARIPOSA, MADERA AND FRESNO COUNTY FOOTHILLS. .DAY ONE...TODAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER CONDITIONS TO THEIR NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE. CAZ094-181200- TULARE COUNTY FOOTHILLS- 500 AM PDT MON OCT 17 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE TULARE COUNTY FOOTHILLS. .DAY ONE...TODAY THERE IS A 50 PERCENT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS TODAY THROUGH TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER CONDITIONS TO THEIR NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE. CAZ095-181200- KERN COUNTY MOUNTAINS- 500 AM PDT MON OCT 17 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE KERN COUNTY MOUNTAINS. .DAY ONE...TODAY THERE IS A 70 PERCENT CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS TODAY WITH A 80 PERCENT CHANCE TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY THERE IS A 50 PERCENT CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS TUESDAY. AFTER TUESDAY...NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER CONDITIONS TO THEIR NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE. CAZ096-097-181200- SIERRA NEVADA FROM YOSEMITE TO KINGS CANYON-TULARE COUNTY MOUNTAINS- 500 AM PDT MON OCT 17 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE SOUTHERN SIERRA NEVADA TO KINGS CANYON. .DAY ONE...TODAY THERE IS A 30 PERCENT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS OVER FRESNO COUNTY. THERE IS A 50 PERCENT CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS IN THE TULARE COUNTY MOUNTAINS TODAY AND A 70 PERCENT CHANCE TONIGHT. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER CONDITIONS TO THEIR NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE. CAZ098-099-181200- INDIAN WELLS VALLEY-SOUTHEASTERN KERN COUNTY DESERT- 500 AM PDT MON OCT 17 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS THE KERN COUNTY MOUNTAINS AND DESERTS. .DAY ONE...TODAY THERE IS A 70 PERCENT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS TODAY AND A 80 PERCENT CHANCE TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER CONDITIONS TO THEIR NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE. CAZ091-092-181200- SOUTHEASTERN SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY-SOUTHWESTERN SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY- 500 AM PDT MON OCT 17 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE SOUTHERN SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY. .DAY ONE...TODAY THERE IS A 20 PERCENT CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS TODAY AND TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER CONDITIONS TO THEIR NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE. TLM
The office that day
Everything else NWS Hanford, CA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 17, 5:33 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | HNX | Kern | 3 hr |
| Oct 17, 8:18 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | HNX | Kern | 87 min |
| Oct 18, 5:30 AM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | HNX | Kern | 2 hr |
| Oct 18, 7:28 AM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | HNX | Kern | 3 hr |
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.