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Wind Advisory 50, NWS Hanford, CA
NWS Hanford, CA issued this wind advisory at Dec 30, 2022, 1:49 PM PST for Kern County, California. It took effect at Dec 30, 2022, 2:00 PM PST. It was in force for 10 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 30, 2022, 1:49 PM PST (21:49 UTC)
- In effect from
- Dec 30, 2022, 2:00 PM PST
- Expired
- Dec 31, 2022, 12:00 AM PST
- In force
- 10 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Hanford, CA
County Kern County, CA
The radar
The Edwards AFB radar (KEYX), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:49 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, 9.8 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
- 470 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 69 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 191 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 238 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Dec 30, 1:43 AM PST, 12 hours 6 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Dec 30, 1:43 AM PST, 12 hours 6 minutes before
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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.