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Wind Advisory 4, NWS Hanford, CA
NWS Hanford, CA issued this wind advisory at Jan 12, 2023, 7:49 PM PST for 4 counties in California. It took effect at Jan 13, 2023, 1:00 AM PST. It was in force for 21 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 12, 2023, 7:49 PM PST (03:49 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 13, 2023, 1:00 AM PST
- Expired
- Jan 13, 2023, 10:00 PM PST
- In force
- 21 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Hanford, CA
Counties Fresno County, CA, Kern County, CA, Kings County, CA, Merced County, CA
The radar
The San Joaquin Valley radar (KHNX), 9 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:53 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 00:00Z, 3.8 hours before the alert went out and 268 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
- 1584 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 96 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 221 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.