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Wind Advisory 24, NWS Hanford, CA
NWS Hanford, CA issued this wind advisory at Apr 11, 2023, 12:05 PM PDT for Kern County, California. It took effect at Apr 12, 2023, 11:00 AM PDT. It was in force for 18 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 11, 2023, 12:05 PM PDT (19:05 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 12, 2023, 11:00 AM PDT
- Expired
- Apr 13, 2023, 5:00 AM PDT
- In force
- 18 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 19:11 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 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 310 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
- 3925 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 32 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 118 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.