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Wind Advisory 4, NWS Hanford, CA

January 31, 20226 counties in California

NWS Hanford, CA issued this wind advisory at Jan 31, 2022, 11:45 AM PST for 6 counties in California. It took effect at Feb 1, 2022, 3:00 AM PST. It was in force for 10 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jan 31, 2022, 11:45 AM PST (19:45 UTC)
In effect from
Feb 1, 2022, 3:00 AM PST
Expired
Feb 1, 2022, 1:00 PM PST
In force
10 hr
Issued by
NWS Hanford, CA

Counties Fresno County, CA, Kern County, CA, Kings County, CA, Madera County, CA, Merced County, CA, Tulare County, CA

The radar

The San Joaquin Valley radar (KHNX), 18 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:47 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Oakland, CA (KOAK), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 272 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Oakland, CA at 12:00Z on 2022-01-31Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Oakland, CA at 12:00Z on 2022-01-31The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 10 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1057 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
10 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
31 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this wind advisory 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 wind advisory went out at Jan 31, 4:23 AM PST, 7 hours 22 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 31, 4:23 AM PST, 7 hours 22 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 31, 11:45 AM PSTFreeze WatchHNXFresno, Kern, Kings, Madera, Mariposa, Merced and 1 more23 hr

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.