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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Hanford, CA
NWS Hanford, CA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 19, 2013, 2:09 PM PDT for Kern County, California. It was in force for 51 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
- Aug 19, 2013, 2:09 PM PDT (21:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 19, 2013, 3:00 PM PDT
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hanford, CA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Kern County, CA
The radar
The Edwards AFB radar (KEYX), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:11 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, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 175 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
- 1752 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 45 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 50 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 Aug 19, 10:42 AM PDT, 3 hours 27 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 19, 10:42 AM PDT, 3 hours 27 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 19, 6:34 AM PDT, 7 hours 35 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY - HANFORD CA 634 AM PDT MON AUG 19 2013 CAZ089>094-200000- 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- 634 AM PDT MON AUG 19 2013 ...ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH THIS EVENING... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY AND THE ADJACENT FOOTHILLS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH MONDAY EVENING... PARTICULARLY NORTH OF KINGS COUNTY IN ADDITION TO THE EAST SIDE OF THE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY AND ADJACENT FOOTHILLS. FOR FURTHER DETAILS PLEASE SEE THE LATEST /SFOSPSHNX/. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SKYWARN SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT ANY SIGNIFICANT OR UNUSUAL CONDITIONS TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. CAZ096-097-200000- SIERRA NEVADA FROM YOSEMITE TO KINGS CANYON- TULARE COUNTY MOUNTAINS- 634 AM PDT MON AUG 19 2013 ...THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE HIGHER ELEVATIONS OF THE SOUTHERN SIERRA NEVADA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS. FOR FURTHER DETAILS PLEASE SEE THE LATEST /SFOSPSHNX/. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH WEDNESDAY. FOR FURTHER DETAILS PLEASE SEE THE LATEST /SFOSPSHNX/. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SKYWARN SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT ANY SIGNIFICANT OR UNUSUAL CONDITIONS TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. CAZ095-098-099-200000- KERN COUNTY MOUNTAINS-INDIAN WELLS VALLEY- SOUTHEASTERN KERN COUNTY DESERT- 634 AM PDT MON AUG 19 2013 ...THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE THROUGH THIS EVENING... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE KERN COUNTY MOUNTAINS AND DESERTS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH MONDAY EVENING. FOR FURTHER DETAILS PLEASE SEE THE LATEST /SFOSPSHNX/. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SKYWARN SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT ANY SIGNIFICANT OR UNUSUAL CONDITIONS TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Aug 19, 9:19 AM PDT, 4 hours 50 minutes before
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</html>Special weather statement, Aug 19, 12:48 PM PDT, 1 hour 21 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY - HANFORD CA 1248 PM PDT MON AUG 19 2013 CAZ089>099-200100- 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- SIERRA NEVADA FROM YOSEMITE TO KINGS CANYON- TULARE COUNTY MOUNTAINS-INDIAN WELLS VALLEY- SOUTHEASTERN KERN COUNTY DESERT- 1248 PM PDT MON AUG 19 2013 ...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS TO IMPACT THE REGION THROUGH THIS EVENING... THUNDERSTORMS ARE BEGINNING TO DEVELOP ACROSS THE WESTERN MOJAVE DESERT IN SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY AS OF 1230 PM. THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP AND WILL MOVE INTO KERN COUNTY IN THE NEXT 1 TO 2 HOURS...AND POSSIBLY DEVELOP ACROSS THE REMAINDER OF THE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY AND ADJACENT SIERRA NEVADA THROUGH LATE AFTERNOON. THUNDERSTORMS COULD BE STRONG WITH GUSTY WINDS OF 50 MPH...VERY HEAVY RAIN AND HAIL. FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING COULD CAUSE NEW FIRE STARTS. BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS...ESPECIALLY IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS LATER TODAY. SKYWARN SPOTTERS SHOULD SEND ANY REPORTS OF SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. YOU CAN ALSO KEEP UP US AT OUR TWITTER FEED...AT TWITTER.COM/NWSHANFORD. JMB WEATHER.GOV/HANFORD
Special weather statement, Aug 19, 12:50 PM PDT, 1 hour 19 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY - HANFORD CA 1250 PM PDT MON AUG 19 2013 CAZ089>099-200100- 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- SIERRA NEVADA FROM YOSEMITE TO KINGS CANYON- TULARE COUNTY MOUNTAINS-INDIAN WELLS VALLEY- SOUTHEASTERN KERN COUNTY DESERT- 1250 PM PDT MON AUG 19 2013 ...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS TO IMPACT THE REGION THROUGH THIS EVENING... THUNDERSTORMS ARE BEGINNING TO DEVELOP ACROSS THE WESTERN MOJAVE DESERT IN SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY AS OF 1230 PM. THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP AND WILL MOVE INTO KERN COUNTY IN THE NEXT 1 TO 2 HOURS...AND POSSIBLY DEVELOP ACROSS THE REMAINDER OF THE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY AND ADJACENT SIERRA NEVADA THROUGH LATE AFTERNOON. THUNDERSTORMS COULD BE STRONG WITH GUSTY WINDS OF 50 MPH...VERY HEAVY RAIN AND HAIL. FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING COULD CAUSE NEW FIRE STARTS. BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS...ESPECIALLY IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS LATER TODAY. SKYWARN SPOTTERS SHOULD SEND ANY REPORTS OF SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. YOU CAN ALSO KEEP UP WITH US AT OUR TWITTER FEED...AT TWITTER.COM/NWSHANFORD. JMB WEATHER.GOV/HANFORD
Local storm report, Aug 19, 1:22 PM PDT, 47 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY CA
122 PM PDT MON AUG 19 2013
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0120 PM HAIL 2 SSW LAKE ISABELLA 35.59N 118.48W
08/19/2013 E0.25 INCH KERN CA PUBLIC
PEA SIZE HAIL REPORTED BY PUBLIC.
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JANDLocal storm report, Aug 19, 1:28 PM PDT, 41 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY CA
128 PM PDT MON AUG 19 2013
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0618 AM FLASH FLOOD 8 WNW RANDSBURG 35.41N 117.79W
08/19/2013 KERN CA LAW ENFORCEMENT
ROAD CLOSURE DUE TO FLASH FLOODING AND DEBRIS ON ROADWAY.
GARLOCK ROAD/REDROCK RANDSBURG ROAD FROM 395 TO STATE
ROUTE 14 CLOSED.
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JANDThe office that day
Everything else NWS Hanford, CA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 18, 5:20 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | HNX | 40 min | |
| Aug 18, 5:43 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | HNX | 47 min | |
| Aug 19, 5:43 AM PDT | Special Weather Statement | HNX | Fresno | 47 min |
| Aug 19, 3:07 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | HNX | Kern | 53 min |
| Aug 19, 3:30 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HNX | Kern | 60 min |
| Aug 19, 3:44 PM PDT | Areal Flood Advisory | HNX | Kern, Tulare | 3 hr |
| Aug 19, 4:25 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | HNX | Kern | 3 hr |
| Aug 19, 4:25 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HNX | Kern | 50 min |
| Aug 19, 4:50 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | HNX | 40 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.