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Flash Flood Warning 18, NWS Hanford, CA
NWS Hanford, CA issued this flash flood warning at Oct 15, 2015, 1:11 PM PDT for Kern County, California. It was in force for 3 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
- Oct 15, 2015, 1:11 PM PDT (20:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 15, 2015, 4:15 PM PDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Hanford, CA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
County Kern County, CA
The radar
The Edwards AFB radar (KEYX), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:13 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, 8.2 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
- 1013 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 13 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 118 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Hanford, CA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 14, 5:14 PM PDT | Areal Flood Advisory | HNX | Kern | 3 hr |
| Oct 14, 8:59 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | HNX | 46 min | |
| Oct 14, 9:43 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | HNX | 32 min | |
| Oct 14, 9:46 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | HNX | Kern | 59 min |
| Oct 14, 10:11 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | HNX | Kern | 49 min |
| Oct 14, 10:38 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | HNX | Kings | 52 min |
| Oct 14, 10:42 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | HNX | Kings | 48 min |
| Oct 14, 11:15 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | HNX | Kern | 45 min |
| Oct 14, 11:41 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | HNX | 64 min | |
| Oct 15, 12:14 AM PDT | Special Weather Statement | HNX | 46 min | |
| Oct 15, 12:39 AM PDT | Special Weather Statement | HNX | 51 min | |
| Oct 15, 12:50 AM PDT | Special Weather Statement | HNX | Kern | 40 min |
| Oct 15, 1:02 AM PDT | Special Weather Statement | HNX | 43 min | |
| Oct 15, 1:36 AM PDT | Special Weather Statement | HNX | Kern | 39 min |
| Oct 15, 4:22 AM PDT | Special Weather Statement | HNX | Kern | 38 min |
| Oct 15, 2:55 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | HNX | Kern | 3 hr |
| Oct 15, 3:00 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HNX | Kern | 30 min |
| Oct 15, 3:26 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | HNX | Kern | 49 min |
| Oct 15, 3:30 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HNX | Kern | 30 min |
| Oct 15, 3:35 PM PDT | Areal Flood Advisory | HNX | Kern | 3 hr |
| Oct 15, 3:39 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HNX | Kern | 36 min |
| Oct 15, 3:54 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | HNX | Kern, Tulare | 36 min |
| Oct 15, 4:00 PM PDT | Areal Flood Advisory | HNX | Kern | 3 hr |
| Oct 15, 4:06 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | HNX | Kern | 39 min |
| Oct 15, 4:10 PM PDT | Areal Flood Warning | HNX | Kern | 3 hr |
| Oct 15, 4:26 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | HNX | Kings | 49 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.