Alert archive / California / High Wind Warnings in 2023
High Wind Warning 4, NWS Hanford, CA
NWS Hanford, CA issued this high wind warning at Feb 11, 2023, 8:08 AM PST for 5 counties in California. It took effect at Feb 12, 2023, 7:00 AM PST. It was in force for 15 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
- Feb 11, 2023, 8:08 AM PST (16:08 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 12, 2023, 7:00 AM PST
- Expired
- Feb 12, 2023, 10:00 PM PST
- In force
- 15 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Hanford, CA
Counties Fresno County, CA, Madera County, CA, Mariposa County, CA, Tulare County, CA, Tuolumne County, CA
The radar
The San Joaquin Valley radar (KHNX), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:07 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, 4.1 hours before the alert went out and 237 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
- 34 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 537 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 27 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 51 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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.