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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS Sacramento, CA

May 29, 2019Plumas County, California

NWS Sacramento, CA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 29, 2019, 3:15 PM PDT for Plumas 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 counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 29, 2019, 3:15 PM PDT (22:15 UTC)
Expired: May 29, 2019, 4:00 PM PDT
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Sacramento, CA
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 50.0 mph

County Plumas County, CA

The radar

The Beale AFB radar (KBBX), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:18 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 Sacramento, CA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 29, 1:58 PM PDT, 1 hour 17 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 29, 1:58 PM PDT, 1 hour 17 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 29, 2:29 PM PDT, 46 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Sacramento, CA issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 29, 2:29 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	STO		31 min
May 29, 3:35 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	STO	Plumas	40 min
May 29, 4:26 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	STO	El Dorado, Nevada, Placer	34 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in California, 2019 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2019

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.