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Special Weather Statement, NWS Sacramento, CA
NWS Sacramento, CA issued this special weather statement at Mar 21, 2016, 1:15 PM PDT for Tehama County, California. It was in force for 45 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
- Mar 21, 2016, 1:15 PM PDT (20:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 21, 2016, 2:00 PM PDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Sacramento, CA
County Tehama County, CA
The radar
The Beale AFB radar (KBBX), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:18 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Oakland, CA (KOAK), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 291 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
- 821 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 62 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 111 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 212 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
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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 Mar 21, 8:47 AM PDT, 4 hours 28 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 21, 8:47 AM PDT, 4 hours 28 minutes before
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SACRAMENTO CA 110 PM PDT MON MAR 21 2016 CAZ014>016-066-068-212100- CENTRAL SACRAMENTO VALLEY CA-WESTERN PLUMAS COUNTY/LASSEN PARK CA- NORTHEAST FOOTHILLS/SACRAMENTO VALLEY CA- BURNEY BASIN / EASTERN SHASTA COUNTY CA- NORTHERN SACRAMENTO VALLEY CA- 110 PM PDT MON MAR 21 2016 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHWESTERN PLUMAS... SOUTHEASTERN SHASTA...EASTERN GLENN...EASTERN TEHAMA AND NORTHWESTERN BUTTE COUNTIES UNTIL 200 PM PDT... AT 104 PM PDT...A TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTER REPORTED PENNY HAIL IN RED BLUFF WITH TORRENTIAL RAIN AND PONDING OF WATER ON ROADS. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTEND ALONG A LINE EXTENDING JEST EAST OF REDDING THROUGH RED BLUFF TO JUST WEST OF WILLOWS WITH PEA SIZED HAIL AND TORRENTIAL RAIN. MOTORISTS ALONG AREA ROADS SUCH AS I5 ARE URGED TO SLOW DOWN AND USE CAUTION. MOVEMENT OF THE LINE WAS NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH. PEA SIZE HAIL AND QUICKLY SHIFTING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 45 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS. SOME LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... CHICO...PARADISE...CORNING...ORLAND...WILLOWS...MINERAL...SHINGLETOWN ...GLENN...TEHAMA...VINA...PAYNES CREEK...DURHAM... LASSEN NATIONAL PARK...MAGALIA...ORDBEND...AND NORD. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH THESE STORMS...AND MAY LEAD TO LOCALIZED FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED ROADWAYS. && LAT...LON 4096 12137 3957 12166 3946 12239 4068 12205 TIME...MOT...LOC 2004Z 226DEG 43KT 4046 12202 3952 12233 EK
Special weather statement, Mar 21, 1:15 PM PDT, 0 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SACRAMENTO CA 115 PM PDT MON MAR 21 2016 CAZ014>016-066-068-212100- CENTRAL SACRAMENTO VALLEY CA-WESTERN PLUMAS COUNTY/LASSEN PARK CA- NORTHEAST FOOTHILLS/SACRAMENTO VALLEY CA- BURNEY BASIN / EASTERN SHASTA COUNTY CA- NORTHERN SACRAMENTO VALLEY CA- 115 PM PDT MON MAR 21 2016 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHWESTERN PLUMAS... SOUTHEASTERN SHASTA...EASTERN GLENN...EASTERN TEHAMA AND NORTHWESTERN BUTTE COUNTIES UNTIL 200 PM PDT... AT 104 PM PDT...A TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTER REPORTED PEA SIZED HAIL IN RED BLUFF WITH TORRENTIAL RAIN AND PONDING OF WATER ON ROADS. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTEND ALONG A LINE EXTENDING JUST EAST OF REDDING THROUGH RED BLUFF TO JUST WEST OF WILLOWS. MOTORISTS ALONG AREA ROADS SUCH AS I5 ARE URGED TO SLOW DOWN AND USE CAUTION. MOVEMENT OF THE LINE WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH. PEA SIZE HAIL AND QUICKLY SHIFTING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 45 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS. SOME LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... CHICO...PARADISE...CORNING...ORLAND...WILLOWS...MINERAL...SHINGLETOWN ...GLENN...TEHAMA...VINA...PAYNES CREEK...DURHAM... LASSEN NATIONAL PARK...MAGALIA...ORDBEND...AND NORD. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH THESE STORMS...AND MAY LEAD TO LOCALIZED FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED ROADWAYS. && LAT...LON 4096 12137 3957 12166 3946 12239 4068 12205 TIME...MOT...LOC 2004Z 226DEG 43KT 4046 12202 3952 12233 EK
The office that day
Everything else NWS Sacramento, CA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Mar 20, 6:31 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | STO | Tehama | 29 min |
| Mar 21, 1:50 AM PDT | Wind Advisory | STO | 15 hr | |
| Mar 21, 1:10 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | STO | Tehama | 50 min |
| Mar 21, 3:13 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | STO | Butte, Sutter, Yuba | 47 min |
Nearby
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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.