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High Wind Warning 1, NWS Hanford, CA

January 3, 2023Kern County, California

NWS Hanford, CA issued this high wind warning at Jan 3, 2023, 11:17 AM PST for Kern County, California. It took effect at Jan 4, 2023, 4:00 AM PST. It was in force for 30 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jan 3, 2023, 11:17 AM PST (19:17 UTC)
In effect from: Jan 4, 2023, 4:00 AM PST
Expired: Jan 5, 2023, 10:00 AM PST
In force: 30 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 19:16 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.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this high wind warning 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 high wind warning went out at Jan 3, 4:02 AM PST, 7 hours 15 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 3, 4:02 AM PST, 7 hours 15 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 2, 4:36 PM PST	Areal Flood Advisory	HNX	Fresno	10 min
Jan 3, 2:37 AM PST	Flood Watch	HNX	Fresno, Kern, Kings, Madera, Mariposa, Merced and 2 more	68 hr
Jan 3, 3:53 AM PST	Winter Storm Warning	HNX	Fresno, Madera, Mariposa, Tulare, Tuolumne	66 hr
Jan 3, 11:17 AM PST	Wind Advisory	HNX	Fresno, Kern, Kings, Madera, Mariposa, Merced and 1 more	47 hr

Nearby

High Wind Warnings in California, 2023 Every high wind warning in 2023

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.