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Flash Flood Warning 4, NWS Hanford, CA
NWS Hanford, CA issued this flash flood warning at Jul 23, 2005, 3:37 PM PDT for Kern County, Tulare County, California. It was in force for 53 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 23, 2005, 3:37 PM PDT (22:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 23, 2005, 4:30 PM PDT
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hanford, CA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Kern County, CA, Tulare County, CA
Did it verify
Not verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow found no qualifying storm report inside this flash flood warning while it was in force. That is not proof nothing happened: reports are thin where few people live.
Cow counts a report within 15 km of the polygon while the warning was in force: a tornado for a tornado warning; hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more or wind damage for a severe thunderstorm warning; a flash flood report for a flash flood warning.
The nearest sounding before it
Vandenberg AFB, CA (KVBG), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1725 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 1 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -43 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -17 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS56 KHNX 232239 FFWHNX CAC029-107-232330- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY CA 337 PM PDT SAT JUL 23 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HANFORD CA HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... NORTH CENTRAL KERN COUNTY IN CENTRAL CALIFORNIA SOUTHEASTERN TULARE COUNTY IN CENTRAL CALIFORNIA * UNTIL 430 PM PDT * AT 330 PM PDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED FLASH FLOODING FROM A THUNDERSTORM OVER THE WARNED AREA. * THE STORM PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING WILL OTHERWISE REMAIN OVER THE SEQUOIA FOREST APPROACHING KERNVILLE. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...COUNTRY ROADS...AS WELL AS FARMLAND ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR OCCURRING. IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNING AREA MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY. RESIDENTS LIVING ALONG STREAMS AND CREEKS SHOULD TAKE IMMEDIATE PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS SWIFTLY FLOWING WATERS OR WATERS OF UNKNOWN DEPTH BY FOOT OR BY AUTOMOBILE. LAT...LON 3573 11850 3571 11835 3595 11823 3596 11841 $$ JSN/BINGHAM
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 Jul 23, 2:33 PM PDT, 1 hour 4 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 23, 2:33 PM PDT, 1 hour 4 minutes before
AREA FORE THIS AFTERNOON...ANYTHING THAT DOES DEVELOP TO THE SOUTH COULD DRIFT INTO THE DISTRICT...AND BECOMES SOMEWHAT STATIONARY UNDER THE DEFORMATION ZONE. TEMPERATURE WISE...CONDITIONS REBOUNDED NICELY AS MUCH OF THE LOWER ELEVATIONS WERE REACHING INTO THE 90S AS OF 200 PM. WITH THE RIDGE BECOMING DOMINATE ONCE AGAIN...WILL EXPECT MANY LOWER ELEVATIONS SITES TO REACH BACK INTO THE CENTURY MARK. SUNDAY WILL SEE THE CONTINUATION FOR THE THREAT OF THUNDERSTORMS AS MODELS ATTEMPT TO PUSH THE MOISTURE DEEPER INTO THE DISTRICT. MODELS HOLD THE ELONGATED RIDGE PATTERN IN PLACE FOR THE NEXT SEVERAL DAYS. THEREFORE... TEMPERATURES SHOW A RISING TREND AT THE 850MB LEVEL GOING INTO SUNDAY AND REMAIN STEADY ON MONDAY. AS FOR VALLEY AND DESERT TEMPERATURES...WILL EXPECT A RETURN TO ABOVE CENTURY MARK READINGS THROUGH MONDAY. .LONG TERM...TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY...A RELATIVELY STAGNANT PATTERN WILL PERSIST OVER THE CWA THRU DAYS 4-7 AS THE UPPER RIDGE RE-ORIENTS OVER THE FOUR-CORNERS REGION WITH WEAK TROUGHINESS LINGERING NEAR 130W. EVENTUAL LOCATION OF UPPER HIGH CENTER WILL DETERMINE STRENGTH OF SE FLOW ALOFT AND EXTENT OF MOISTURE ADVECTION NORTHWARD INTO THE CWA...OTHERWISE A DRY PATTERN WILL CONT WITH TEMPS REMAINING ABOVE NORMAL AND NORMAL SUMMER-TIME WINDS PREVAILING THRU THE PERIOD. && .AVIATION...VFR CONDITIONS WILL PERSIST FOR ALL AREAS THROUGH 00Z MONDAY. REFER TO TAFS AT KMCE...KFAT...AND KBFL FOR DETAILS. && .HNX...WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR THE KERN COUNTY DESERTS THROUGH THIS EVENING. && WWW.WEATHER.GOV/HANFORD /USE ALL LOWER CASE/ MOLINA/JSN
Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 23, 5:00 AM PDT, 10 hours 37 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY - HANFORD CA 500 AM PDT SAT JUL 23 2005 CAZ095-098-099-241200- KERN COUNTY MOUNTAINS-INDIAN WELLS VALLEY- SOUTHEASTERN KERN COUNTY DESERT- 500 AM PDT SAT JUL 23 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE KERN COUNTY MOUNTAINS AND DESERTS. .DAY ONE...TODAY. THERE WILL BE A CHANCE OF AFTERNOON AND EVENING THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE KERN COUNTY MOUNTAINS AND DESERTS TODAY. SOME STORMS WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE HEAVY RAINFALL...AND THE SLOW MOVEMENT OF THESE STORMS MAY ALLOW FOR FLASH FLOODING. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR THE KERN COUNTY MOUNTAINS AND DESERTS FROM NOON PDT UNTIL 900 PM PDT TODAY. SEE WGUS66 KHNX - SFOFFAHNX FOR DETAILS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. ISOLATED TO SCATTERED AFTERNOON AND EVENING THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE SUNDAY AND MONDAY. OTHERWISE...NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED TODAY. WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER CONDITIONS ACCORDING TO STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES. CAZ089>094-096-097-241200- WEST CENTRAL SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY-EAST CENTRAL SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY- SOUTHWESTERN SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY-SOUTHEASTERN SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY- MARIPOSA MADERA AND FRESNO COUNTY FOOTHILLS-TULARE COUNTY FOOTHILLS- SIERRA NEVADA FROM YOSEMITE TO KINGS CANYON-TULARE COUNTY MOUNTAINS- 500 AM PDT SAT JUL 23 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE CENTRAL AND SOUTH SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY...THE SOUTHERN SIERRA NEVADA MOUNTAINS AND ADJACENT FOOTHILLS. .DAY ONE...TODAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. DS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Hanford, CA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 23, 4:47 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | HNX | Kern | 58 min |
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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.