Alert archive / California / Red Flag Warnings in 2008
Red Flag Warning 2, NWS Hanford, CA
NWS Hanford, CA issued this red flag warning at Sep 15, 2008, 8:45 AM PDT. It was in force for 10 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 15, 2008, 8:45 AM PDT (15:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 15, 2008, 7:00 PM PDT
- In force
- 10 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Hanford, CA
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WWUS86 KHNX 151545 RFWHNX RED FLAG WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY - HANFORD CA 845 AM PDT MON SEP 15 2008 CAZ295>297-160200- /O.NEW.KHNX.FW.W.0002.080915T1545Z-080916T0200Z/ KERN COUNTY MOUNTAINS- SIERRA NEVADA FROM YOSEMITE TO KINGS CANYON NATIONAL PARK- TULARE COUNTY MOUNTAINS- 845 AM PDT MON SEP 15 2008 ...RED FLAG WARNING FOR LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM PDT THIS EVENING FOR THE KERN COUNTY MOUNTAINS AND THE SOUTHERN SIERRA NEVADA... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HANFORD HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING FOR LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR THE KERN COUNTY MOUNTAINS AND THE SOUTHERN SIERRA NEVADA...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM PDT THIS EVENING. STRONG HIGH PRESSURE WILL REMAIN OVER THE DISTRICT TODAY AND VERY DRY AIR WILL PERSIST. OVERNIGHT RELATIVE HUMIDITY RECOVERIES WERE POOR AND TRENDS THIS MORNING ARE LOWER. GIVEN THIS SCENARIO...MANY LOCATIONS WILL EXPERIENCE 10 OR MORE HOURS OF SINGLE DIGIT RELATIVE HUMIDITY THROUGH THE AFTERNOON AND INTO THE EARLY EVENING. A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. A COMBINATION OF LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...WARM TEMPERATURES AND DRY FUELS WILL CREATE EXPLOSIVE FIRE GROWTH POTENTIAL. PLEASE ADVISE THE APPROPRIATE OFFICIALS OR FIRE CREWS IN THE FIELD OF THIS RED FLAG WARNING. $$ DUDLEY/BEAN WEATHER.GOV/HANFORD
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS86 KHNX 160200 RFWHNX RED FLAG WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY - HANFORD CA 700 PM PDT MON SEP 15 2008 CAZ295>297-160300- /O.CAN.KHNX.FW.W.0002.000000T0000Z-080916T0200Z/ KERN COUNTY MOUNTAINS- SIERRA NEVADA FROM YOSEMITE TO KINGS CANYON NATIONAL PARK- TULARE COUNTY MOUNTAINS- 700 PM PDT MON SEP 15 2008 ...RED FLAG WARNING IS CANCELLED FOR THE TEHACHAPI MOUNTAINS AND THE SOUTHERN SIERRA NEVADA DUE TO RISING HUMIDITIES... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HANFORD HAS CANCELLED THE RED FLAG WARNING FOR THE TEHACHAPI MOUNTAINS AND THE SOUTHERN SIERRA NEVADA. RELATIVE HUMIDITIES IN THE SOUTHERN SIERRA NEVADA AND THE TEHACHAPI MOUNTAINS HAVE BEGUN TO RECOVER AS THE SUN SETS AND TEMPERATURES COOL. RELATIVE HUMIDITIES AT MOST MOUNTAIN SITES HAVE RISEN ABOVE 10 PERCENT. $$ SANGER WEATHER.GOV/HANFORD
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this red flag 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 red flag warning went out at Sep 15, 3:47 AM PDT, 4 hours 58 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 15, 3:47 AM PDT, 4 hours 58 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY - HANFORD CA 347 AM PDT MON SEP 15 2008 .DISCUSSION...EXPECT A FEW MORE DEGREES OF WARMING TODAY AS THICKNESSES AND 850 MB TEMPERATURES INCREASE AHEAD OF A WEAK UPPER LOW APPROACHING THE NORTHERN/CENTRAL CALIFORNIA COAST. TUESDAY WILL SEE THE BEGINNING OF A COOLING TREND AS THE UPPER LOW MOVES INLAND. MODELS SUGGEST THAT THERE WILL BE SUFFICIENT INSTABILITY ALONG WITH SOME MOISTURE DRAWN NORTHWARD AROUND THE LOW TO INITIATE ISOLATED AFTERNOON AND EVENING CONVECTION OVER THE MOUNTAIN AND DESERT ZONES TUESDAY. ADDITIONAL ISOLATED CONVECTION CAN NOT BE RULED OUT WEDNESDAY BEFORE A STRONGER LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM APPROACHING THE REGION PUSHES MOISTURE EAST OF THE DISTRICT. ADDITIONAL COOLING WILL OCCUR DURING THE SECOND HALF OF THE WEEK AS THE FRONTAL SYSTEM PUSHES THROUGH...WITH TEMPERATURES LOWERING TO A FEW DEGREES BELOW CLIMO BY FRIDAY. TEMPERATURES WILL THEN RECOVER TO AROUND NORMAL INTO THE FIRST PART OF NEXT WEEK AS HIGH PRESSURE REBUILDS BEHIND THE EXITING TROUGH. && .AVIATION...LOCAL MVFR IN FU LYRS SFC AND ALOFT DUE TO SEVERAL WILDFIRES IN THE SRN SIERRA. OTHERWISE VFR CONDITIONS ACROSS THE CENTRAL CA INTERIOR THROUGH 12Z TUESDAY. && .AIR QUALITY ISSUES... PLEASE SEE SFOAQAHNX && .HNX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && PUBLIC...JEB AVN/FW...MV WEATHER.GOV/HANFORD
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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.