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Tornado Warning 1, NWS Hanford, CA
NWS Hanford, CA issued this tornado warning at Jan 2, 2006, 2:31 PM PST for Fresno County, California. It was in force for 29 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
- Jan 2, 2006, 2:31 PM PST (22:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 2, 2006, 3:00 PM PST
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hanford, CA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Fresno County, CA
The radar
The San Joaquin Valley radar (KHNX), 49 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:32 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 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 238 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
- 512 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 67 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 159 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 127 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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 tornado warning went out at Jan 2, 10:00 AM PST, 4 hours 31 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 2, 10:00 AM PST, 4 hours 31 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jan 2, 5:00 AM PST, 9 hours 31 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY - HANFORD CA 500 AM PST MON JAN 2 2006 CAZ089-090-093-094-098-099-031300- WEST CENTRAL SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY-EAST CENTRAL SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY- MARIPOSA MADERA AND FRESNO COUNTY FOOTHILLS-TULARE COUNTY FOOTHILLS- INDIAN WELLS VALLEY-SOUTHEASTERN KERN COUNTY DESERT- 500 AM PST MON JAN 2 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE CENTRAL SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY AND ADJACENT FOOTHILLS...AND THE KERN COUNTY DESERT. .DAY ONE...TODAY A FLOOD WARNING IS IN EFFECT THROUGH 10 PM PST. PLEASE REFER TO THE LATEST WEATHER MESSAGE SFOFLWHNX /WGUS46 KHNX/ FOR FURTHER DETAILS. THERE IS A CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON. SOME STORMS MAY PRODUCE HEAVY RAINFALL...GUSTY WINDS...SMALL HAIL...AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING. .DAY 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 NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE. CAZ091-092-095-031300- SOUTHWESTERN SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY-SOUTHEASTERN SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY- KERN COUNTY MOUNTAINS- 500 AM PST MON JAN 2 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE SOUTHERN SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY...AND THE KERN COUNTY MOUNTAINS. .DAY ONE...TODAY A FLOOD WARNING IS IN EFFECT THROUGH 10 PM PST. PLEASE REFER TO THE LATEST SFOFLWHNX /WGUS46 KHNX/ FOR FURTHER DETAILS. A HIGH WIND WATCH IS IN EFFECT FROM 6 AM UNTIL NOON. PLEASE REFER TO THE LATEST WEATHER MESSAGE SFONPWHNX /WWUS76 KHNX/ FOR FURTHER DETAILS. THERE IS A CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON. SOME STORMS MAY PRODUCE HEAVY RAINFALL...GUSTY WINDS...SMALL HAIL...AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING. .DAY 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 NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE. CAZ096-097-031300- SIERRA NEVADA FROM YOSEMITE TO KINGS CANYON-TULARE COUNTY MOUNTAINS- 500 AM PST MON JAN 2 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE SOUTHERN SIERRA NEVADA FROM YOSEMITE TO KINGS CANYON...AND THE TULARE COUNTY MOUNTAINS. .DAY ONE...TODAY A WINTER STORM WARNING IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM PST. PLEASE REFER TO THE LATEST WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE SFOWSWHNX /WWUS46 KHNX/ FOR FURTHER DETAILS. THERE IS A CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON. SOME STORMS MAY PRODUCE HEAVY RAINFALL...GUSTY WINDS...SMALL HAIL...AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING. .DAY 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 NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE. TLM
The office that day
Everything else NWS Hanford, CA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 2, 2:18 PM PST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HNX | Fresno | 42 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.