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Special Weather Statement, NWS Sacramento, CA
NWS Sacramento, CA issued this special weather statement at Jul 14, 2014, 3:21 PM PDT for Tuolumne County, California. It was in force for 39 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 14, 2014, 3:21 PM PDT (22:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 14, 2014, 4:00 PM PDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Sacramento, CA
County Tuolumne County, CA
The radar
The Sacramento radar (KDAX), 157 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:21 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The nearest sounding before it
Oakland, CA (KOAK), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 207 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
- 2649 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 19 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -11 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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</html>What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at Jul 14, 10:04 AM PDT, 5 hours 17 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 14, 10:04 AM PDT, 5 hours 17 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Jul 14, 12:55 PM PDT, 2 hours 26 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SACRAMENTO CA 1255 PM PDT MON JUL 14 2014 CAZ069-142030- WEST SLOPE NORTHERN SIERRA NEVADA CA- 1255 PM PDT MON JUL 14 2014 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SACRAMENTO HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR... EXTREME SOUTH CENTRAL ALPINE COUNTY IN CENTRAL CALIFORNIA NORTH CENTRAL TUOLUMNE COUNTY IN CENTRAL CALIFORNIA UNTIL 130 PM PDT AT 1250 PM PDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR KENNEDY MEADOW..MOVING WEST AT 5 MPH. HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF PENNIES IS EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... KENNEDY MEADOW... DARDANELLE... IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA...TAKE SHELTER IN A STURDY BUILDING. LAT...LON 3820 11989 3840 11989 3839 11965 3820 11966 TIME...MOT...LOC 1955Z 094DEG 5KT 3830 11973 DANG
Special weather statement, Jul 14, 3:21 PM PDT, 0 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SACRAMENTO CA 321 PM PDT MON JUL 14 2014 CAZ069-142300- WEST SLOPE NORTHERN SIERRA NEVADA CA- 321 PM PDT MON JUL 14 2014 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SACRAMENTO HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR... NORTH CENTRAL TUOLUMNE COUNTY IN CENTRAL CALIFORNIA UNTIL 400 PM PDT AT 318 PM PDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES SOUTH OF DARDANELLE..MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 5 MPH. HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF PENNIES IS EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM...ALONG WITH HEAVY RAIN AND FREQUENT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... RURAL NORTHERN TUOLUMNE COUNTY... LAT...LON 3809 12002 3832 12011 3838 11975 3821 11968 TIME...MOT...LOC 2221Z 053DEG 2KT 3826 11983 CS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Sacramento, CA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 14, 12:55 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | STO | Tuolumne | 35 min |
| Jul 14, 4:20 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | STO | Tuolumne | 40 min |
| Jul 14, 4:45 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | STO | Tuolumne | 60 min |
Nearby
Special Weather Statements in California, 2014Every special weather statement in 2014
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.