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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 1, NWS Hanford, CA
NWS Hanford, CA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 18, 2005, 5:06 PM PST for Fresno County, Kings County, California. It was in force for 34 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
- Feb 18, 2005, 5:06 PM PST (01:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 18, 2005, 5:40 PM PST
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hanford, CA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Fresno County, CA, Kings County, CA
The radar
The San Joaquin Valley radar (KHNX), 14 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:08 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Vandenberg AFB, CA (KVBG), launched 00:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 200 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
- 473 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -10 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 694 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 65 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 124 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Feb 18, 3:15 PM PST, 1 hour 51 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 18, 3:15 PM PST, 1 hour 51 minutes before
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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.