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Wind Advisory 42, NWS Hanford, CA

November 18, 2023Kern County, Tulare County, California

NWS Hanford, CA issued this wind advisory at Nov 18, 2023, 1:54 AM PST for Kern County, Tulare County, California. It took effect at Nov 18, 2023, 10:00 PM PST. It was in force for 22 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Nov 18, 2023, 1:54 AM PST (09:54 UTC)
In effect from
Nov 18, 2023, 10:00 PM PST
Expired
Nov 19, 2023, 7:31 PM PST
In force
22 hr
Issued by
NWS Hanford, CA

Counties Kern County, CA, Tulare County, CA

The radar

The San Joaquin Valley radar (KHNX), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:53 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

Las Vegas, NV (KVEF), launched 00:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 297 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Las Vegas, NV at 00:00Z on 2023-11-18Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Las Vegas, NV at 00:00Z on 2023-11-18The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 21 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1383 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
59 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
21 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
99 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Nov 18, 2:00 PM PSTSpecial Weather StatementHNXMerced45 min
Nov 18, 2:39 PM PSTSpecial Weather StatementHNXMerced36 min
Nov 18, 2:50 PM PSTSpecial Weather StatementHNXMerced40 min
Nov 18, 3:12 PM PSTSpecial Weather StatementHNXMerced33 min
Nov 18, 3:20 PM PSTSpecial Weather StatementHNXMerced25 min
Nov 18, 3:43 PM PSTSpecial Weather StatementHNXMerced32 min

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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.