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Wind Advisory 41, NWS Hanford, CA

October 21, 2022Kern County, Tulare County, California

NWS Hanford, CA issued this wind advisory at Oct 21, 2022, 2:16 AM PDT for Kern County, Tulare County, California. It took effect at Oct 22, 2022, 8:00 AM PDT. It was in force for 15 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Oct 21, 2022, 2:16 AM PDT (09:16 UTC)
In effect from
Oct 22, 2022, 8:00 AM PDT
Expired
Oct 22, 2022, 11:00 PM PDT
In force
15 hr
Issued by
NWS Hanford, CA

Counties Kern County, CA, Tulare County, CA

The radar

The San Joaquin Valley radar (KHNX), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:17 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

Las Vegas, NV (KVEF), launched 00:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 297 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, Las Vegas, NV at 00:00Z on 2022-10-21Temperature 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, Las Vegas, NV at 00:00Z on 2022-10-21The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 9 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
3715 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
9 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
3 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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.