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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 16, NWS Sacramento, CA
NWS Sacramento, CA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 14, 2006, 3:55 PM PST for Nevada County, Placer 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 14, 2006, 3:55 PM PST (23:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 14, 2006, 4:30 PM PST
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Sacramento, CA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Nevada County, CA, Placer County, CA
The radar
The Beale AFB radar (KBBX), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:58 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, 11.9 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
- 551 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 84 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -4 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 Sacramento, CA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Mar 14, 2:25 PM PST, 1 hour 30 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 14, 2:25 PM PST, 1 hour 30 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SACRAMENTO CA 700 AM PST TUE MAR 14 2006 CAZ013>019-063-064-066>069-151500- SHASTA LAKE AREA/NORTHERN SHASTA COUNTY- BURNEY BASIN/EASTERN SHASTA COUNTY-NORTHERN SACRAMENTO VALLEY- CENTRAL SACRAMENTO VALLEY-SOUTHERN SACRAMENTO VALLEY- CARQUINEZ STRAIT AND DELTA-NORTHERN SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY- MOUNTAINS SOUTHWESTERN SHASTA TO NORTHERN LAKE COUNTIES- CLEAR LAKE/SOUTHERN LAKE COUNTY-MOTHERLODE- EAST FOOTHILLS/NORTH SACRAMENTO VALLEY- WESTERN PLUMAS COUNTY/LASSEN PARK-WEST SLOPE NORTHERN SIERRA NEVADA- 700 AM PST TUE MAR 14 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR INTERIOR NORTHERN CALIFORNIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY A COLD LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM IS FORECAST TO BRING MORE SNOW OR SNOW SHOWERS TO THE INTERIOR OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA TODAY. SNOW LEVELS WILL BE LOWERING TO 2000 TO 2500 FEET...RAISING LATE THIS AFTEROON AND EVENING. * WINTER STORM WARNING.......SEE WWUS46 KSTO - WSWSTO FOR DETAILS * .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY 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. THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION IS AVAILABLE ON THE INTERNET AT (LOWER CASE): HTTP://WWW.WRH.NOAA.GOV/STO
In the hours before
Local storm report, Mar 14, 1:46 PM PST, 2 hours 9 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SACRAMENTO CA
146 PM PST TUE MAR 14 2006
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
1106 AM HAIL CHICO 39.75N 121.81W
03/14/2006 E0.25 INCH BUTTE CA LAW ENFORCEMENT
COVERING GROUND. CHP REQUEST CREW TO REMOVE FROM HIGHWAY
20.
1140 AM HAIL 6 SE GRIDLEY 39.30N 121.62W
03/14/2006 E0.25 INCH SUTTER CA LAW ENFORCEMENT
1153 AM HAIL LOMA RICA 39.32N 121.40W
03/14/2006 E0.25 INCH YUBA CA PUBLIC
LIGHTNING.
1202 PM FUNNEL CLOUD 1 E RIO VISTA 38.17N 121.68W
03/14/2006 SOLANO CA PUBLIC
ALONG HIGHWAY 160
1210 PM HAIL ELK GROVE 38.40N 121.37W
03/14/2006 U0.25 INCH SACRAMENTO CA PUBLIC
LOTS OF HAIL.
1253 PM FUNNEL CLOUD 7 W LODI 38.12N 121.42W
03/14/2006 SAN JOAQUIN CA PUBLIC
NW OF INTERSTATE 5 AND HIGHWAY 12
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CMATTHEWSLocal storm report, Mar 14, 2:13 PM PST, 1 hour 42 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Sacramento, CA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 13, 6:09 PM PST | Wind Advisory | STO | 12 hr | |
| Mar 14, 11:47 AM PST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | STO | Butte, Yuba | 23 min |
| Mar 14, 11:51 AM PST | Tornado Warning | STO | Sacramento, San Joaquin, Solano | 24 min |
| Mar 14, 12:24 PM PST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | STO | Sacramento | 36 min |
| Mar 14, 12:44 PM PST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | STO | Sacramento, San Joaquin | 24 min |
| Mar 14, 12:56 PM PST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | STO | El Dorado, Sacramento | 34 min |
| Mar 14, 12:56 PM PST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | STO | San Joaquin | 34 min |
| Mar 14, 1:20 PM PST | Snow Advisory | STO | 8 hr | |
| Mar 14, 1:27 PM PST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | STO | San Joaquin | 33 min |
| Mar 14, 1:44 PM PST | Tornado Warning | STO | San Joaquin | 31 min |
| Mar 14, 1:54 PM PST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | STO | El Dorado | 31 min |
| Mar 14, 2:14 PM PST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | STO | San Joaquin, Stanislaus | 61 min |
| Mar 14, 3:23 PM PST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | STO | Nevada, Placer, Yuba | 37 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in California, 2006Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2006
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.