Alert archive / California / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2005
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Hanford, CA
NWS Hanford, CA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 21, 2005, 3:13 PM PST for Fresno County, Madera County, Merced County, California. It was in force for 47 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 21, 2005, 3:13 PM PST (23:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 21, 2005, 4:00 PM PST
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hanford, CA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Fresno County, CA, Madera County, CA, Merced County, CA
The radar
The San Joaquin Valley radar (KHNX), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:15 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
Oakland, CA (KOAK), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 205 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
- 892 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 199 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 235 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 21, 3:10 PM PST, 3 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 21, 3:10 PM PST, 3 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Feb 21, 12:30 PM PST, 2 hours 43 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY - HANFORD CA 1230 PM PST MON FEB 21 2005 CAZ098-099-221300- INDIAN WELLS VALLEY-SOUTHEASTERN KERN COUNTY DESERT- 1230 PM PST MON FEB 21 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE INDIAN WELLS VALLEY... AND THE SOUTHEASTERN KERN COUNTY DESERT. .DAY ONE...TODAY AN URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 AM TUESDAY MORNING. PLEASE REFER TO THE LATEST FLOOD STATEMENT MESSAGE /WGUS86 KHNX/ FOR FURTHER DETAILS. A FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT PST TONIGHT. PLEASE REFER TO THE LATEST FLOOD WATCH MESSAGE /WGUS66 KHNX/ FOR FURTHER DETAILS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY THE URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY IS EXPECTED TO EXPIRE AT 6 AM TUESDAY OTHERWISE NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE PERIOD. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER CONDITIONS TO THEIR LOCAL NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE. CAZ096-097-221300- SIERRA NEVADA FROM YOSEMITE TO KINGS CANYON-TULARE COUNTY MOUNTAINS- 1230 PM PST MON FEB 21 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE SOUTHERN SIERRA NEVADA FROM YOSEMITE TO KINGS CANYON. .DAY ONE...TODAY A HEAVY SNOW WARNING IS IN EFFECT THROUGH MIDNIGHT. PLEASE REFER TO THE LATEST WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE /WWUS46 KHNX/ FOR FURTHER DETAILS. .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 LOCAL NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE. CAZ095-221300- KERN COUNTY MOUNTAINS- 1230 PM PST MON FEB 21 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE KERN COUNTY MOUNTAINS. .DAY ONE...TODAY A WINTER STORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE KERN COUNTY MOUNTAINS ABOVE 6000 FEET UNTIL MIDNIGHT TONIGHT. PLEASE REFER TO THE LATEST WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE /WWUS46 KHNX/ FOR FURTHER DETAILS. AN URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 AM TUESDAY BELOW 6000 FEET. PLEASE REFER TO THE LATEST FLOOD STATEMENT MESSAGE /WGUS86 KHNX/ FOR FURTHER DETAILS. A FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT PST TONIGHT BELOW 6000 FEET. PLEASE REFER TO THE LATEST FLOOD WATCH MESSAGE /WGUS66 KHNX/ FOR FURTHER DETAILS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY THE URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY IS EXPECTED TO EXPIRE AT 6 AM TUESDAY OTHERWISE NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE PERIOD. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER CONDITIONS TO THEIR LOCAL NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE. CAZ089>094-221300- 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- 1230 PM PST MON FEB 21 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY...AND THE SOUTHERN SIERRA NEVADA FOOTHILLS. .DAY ONE...TODAY THERE IS A CHANCE FOR ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY THERE IS A CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS TUESDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY EVENING. FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE PERIOD... 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. PJ
The office that day
Everything else NWS Hanford, CA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 21, 1:50 PM PST | Flash Flood Warning | HNX | Fresno, Kern, Kings | 3 hr |
| Feb 21, 2:13 PM PST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HNX | Fresno, Madera | 32 min |
| Feb 21, 2:45 PM PST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HNX | Madera | 30 min |
| Feb 21, 3:56 PM PST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HNX | Fresno, Kings, Madera, Mariposa, Merced, Tulare | 49 min |
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.