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Flash Flood Warning 6, NWS Hanford, CA

July 23, 2005Kern County, California

NWS Hanford, CA issued this flash flood warning at Jul 23, 2005, 5:42 PM PDT for Kern County, California. It was in force for 63 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 23, 2005, 5:42 PM PDT (00:42 UTC)
Expired
Jul 23, 2005, 6:45 PM PDT
In force
63 min
Issued by
NWS Hanford, CA
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Kern County, CA

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, 3 hours 9 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 23, 2:33 PM PDT, 3 hours 9 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, 4:30 PM PDT, 1 hour 12 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY - HANFORD CA
430 PM PDT SAT JUL 23 2005

CAZ095-097-098-099-241200-
KERN COUNTY MOUNTAINS-INDIAN WELLS VALLEY-TULARE COUNTY MOUNTAINS-
SOUTHEASTERN KERN COUNTY DESERT-
440 PM 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 MIDNIGHT EARLY SUNDAY MORNING. 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>094-096-241200-
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.

440 PM 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.

TLM

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 24, 1:30 PM PDTFlash Flood WarningHNXTulare60 min
Jul 24, 2:26 PM PDTFlash Flood WarningHNXTulare2 hr
Jul 24, 3:14 PM PDTFlash Flood WarningHNXKern2 hr
Jul 24, 4:17 PM PDTFlash Flood WarningHNXKern118 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.