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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS Hanford, CA

October 29, 20074 counties in California

NWS Hanford, CA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 29, 2007, 1:16 PM PDT for 4 counties in 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
Oct 29, 2007, 1:16 PM PDT (20:16 UTC)
Expired
Oct 29, 2007, 1:45 PM PDT
In force
29 min
Issued by
NWS Hanford, CA
Area
Storm-based polygon

Counties Fresno County, CA, Madera County, CA, Mariposa County, CA, Tuolumne County, CA

The radar

The San Joaquin Valley radar (KHNX), 121 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:18 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, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 213 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Oakland, CA at 12:00Z on 2007-10-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Oakland, CA at 12:00Z on 2007-10-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 75 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1240 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
75 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
151 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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 Oct 29, 9:20 AM PDT, 3 hours 56 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 29, 9:20 AM PDT, 3 hours 56 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Oct 29, 5:37 AM PDT, 7 hours 39 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY - HANFORD CA
537 AM PDT MON OCT 29 2007

CAZ089>095-098-099-301245-
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-KERN COUNTY MOUNTAINS-INDIAN WELLS VALLEY-
SOUTHEASTERN KERN COUNTY DESERT-
537 AM PDT MON OCT 29 2007

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
INTERIOR

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP ACROSS THE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY...
THE ADJACENT SOUTHERN SIERRA NEVADA FOOTHILLS...AS WELL AS
THE KERN COUNTY MOUNTAINS AND DESERTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.
DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...SMALL HAIL AND LOCALLY
GUSTY WINDS ARE POSSIBLE WITH THE THUNDERSTORMS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER
CONDITIONS TO THE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
OFFICE.

BINGHAM

WEATHER.GOV/HANFORD

The office that day

Everything else NWS Hanford, CA issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 29, 4:00 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHNXFresno30 min
Oct 29, 4:28 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHNXFresno47 min
Oct 29, 4:43 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHNXKern47 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in California, 2007Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2007

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.