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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 16, NWS Hanford, CA
NWS Hanford, CA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 19, 2005, 2:55 PM PST for Fresno County, California. It was in force for 35 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
- Mar 19, 2005, 2:55 PM PST (22:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 19, 2005, 3:30 PM PST
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hanford, CA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Fresno County, CA
The nearest sounding before it
Oakland, CA (KOAK), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 250 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
- 620 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 218 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 253 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 Mar 19, 2:00 PM PST, 55 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 19, 2:00 PM PST, 55 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HANFORD CA
200 PM PST SAT MAR 19 2005
.SHORT TERM...FOR THE CENTRAL CALIFORNIA INTERIOR...PRECIP WAS
REDEVELOPING THIS AFTERNOON AS LFQ OF UPPER JET APPROACHES AND
PROVIDES ADDITIONAL LIFT TO MOISTURE-LADEN AIRMASS. UPSTREAM
SHORTWAVE TROUGH WAS ALSO MOVING EAST FROM 35N/135W WITH ASSOCIATED
VORT AXIS EXTENDING SE TO 125W. WAVE AND STRONGER DYNAMICS WILL
MOVE ONSHORE OVER NORCAL TONIGHT...HOWEVER WITH LITTLE CHANGE IN
JET POSITION AND SUSTAINED THOUGH WEAK OROGRAPHICS OVER THE
SOUTHERN SIERRA...WILL MAINTAIN WINTER STORM WARNING NORTH OF KERN
COUNTY OVERNIGHT. WINCE ADDITIONAL ACCUMS OVER THE KERN MTNS WILL
REMAIN BELOW ADVISORY CRITERIA WITH LIGHTER WINDS OVERNIGHT...WILL
CANCEL WINTER WX ADVISORY. SBCAPE REMAINS AROUND 500 J/KG THIS
AFTERNOON WITH SR-HELICITIES NEAR 100 M2/S2 AND AREA OF SFC MSTR
CONVERGENCE MOVING EAST INTO WRN PORTIONS OF FRESNO AND MERCED
COUNTIES. WITH STORM MOTIONS NE AT AROUND 15 KTS...WILL MAINTAIN
THUNDERSTORM THREAT FOR SJ VALLEY AND ADJACENT SIERRA FOOTHILLS
ZONES. POTENTIAL FOR PRECIP WILL CONT THRU TUES AS MOIST W-SW FLOW
ALOFT TRANSPORTS ADDITIONAL SHORTWAVE TROUGHS INLAND.
.LONG TERM...FOR TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY...THERE CONTINUES TO
BE CONSIDERABLE DIFFICULTY IN REACHING A MODEL CONSENSUS WITH
REGARDS TO THE EXTENDED PERIOD. THE 12Z GFS IS MUCH LESS PROGRESSIVE
WITH THE MIDWEEK SYSTEM THAN ITS 00Z EDITION AND OTHER SOLUTIONS.
WILL KEEP CHANCE POPS FOR ALL AREAS THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT, BUT
WILL TREND POPS LOWER THURSDAY INTO FRIDAY AS IT APPEARS THE TREND
IS FOR UPPER RIDGING TO BUILD INTO THE STATE FROM THE EAST PACIFIC.
AT THIS TIME, WILL INDICATE DRY WEATHER FOR ALL ZONES FRIDAY NIGHT
INTO SATURDAY AS CURRENT SOLUTIONS WOULD SUGGEST TRANQUIL AND
WARMER WEATHER WITH RIDGING OVERHEAD.
&&
.HNX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...WINTER STORM WARNING FOR THE
SOUTHERN SIERRA FROM YOSEMITE PARK TO THE KERN COUNTY LINE
UNTIL 600 AM PST SUNDAY.
&&
WEATHER.GOV/HANFORD /USE ALL LOWER CASE/
JSN/BURGERHazardous weather outlook, Mar 19, 9:30 AM PST, 5 hours 25 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY - HANFORD CA 930 AM PST SAT MAR 19 2005 CAZ089>094-201300- EAST CENTRAL SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY- MARIPOSA MADERA AND FRESNO COUNTY FOOTHILLS- SOUTHEASTERN SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY-SOUTHWESTERN SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY- TULARE COUNTY FOOTHILLS-WEST CENTRAL SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY- 930 AM PST SAT MAR 19 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY AND ADJACENT FOOTHILLS. .DAY ONE...TODAY THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING ACROSS THE AREA. SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED...BUT THE STRONGEST STORMS COULD STILL PRODUCE LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN AND SMALL HAIL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER CONDITIONS TO THEIR LOCAL NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE. CAZ095-201300- KERN COUNTY MOUNTAINS- 930 AM PST SAT MAR 19 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE KERN COUNTY MOUNTAINS. .DAY ONE...TODAY A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM. PLEASE REFER TO THE LATEST WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE /WWUS46 KHNX/ FOR FURTHER DETAILS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER CONDITIONS TO THEIR LOCAL NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE. CAZ096-097-201300- SIERRA NEVADA FROM YOSEMITE TO KINGS CANYON-TULARE COUNTY MOUNTAINS- 930 AM PST SAT MAR 19 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE SOUTHERN SIERRA NEVADA FROM YOSEMITE TO THE KERN COUNTY LINE. .DAY ONE...TODAY A WINTER STORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 AM SUNDAY. PLEASE REFER TO THE LATEST WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE /WWUS46 KHNX/ FOR FURTHER DETAILS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY THE WINTER STORM WARNING WILL CONTINUE THROUGH 6 AM SUNDAY. AFTER 6 AM SUNDAY...NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE PERIOD AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER CONDITIONS TO THEIR LOCAL NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE. CAZ098-099-201300- INDIAN WELLS VALLEY-SOUTHEASTERN KERN COUNTY DESERT- 930 AM PST SAT MAR 19 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE KERN COUNTY DESERTS. .DAY ONE...TODAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER CONDITIONS TO THEIR LOCAL NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE. TLM/JWM
The office that day
Everything else NWS Hanford, CA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 19, 2:25 PM PST | Tornado Warning | HNX | Merced | 35 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.