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Blizzard Warning 1, NWS Hanford, CA
NWS Hanford, CA issued this blizzard warning at Feb 27, 2024, 1:47 PM PST for 5 counties in California. It took effect at Feb 29, 2024, 4:00 PM PST. It was in force for 66 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 27, 2024, 1:47 PM PST (21:47 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 29, 2024, 4:00 PM PST
- Expired
- Mar 3, 2024, 10:00 AM PST
- In force
- 66 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 21:47 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Oakland, CA (KOAK), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1214 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -39 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 81 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Hanford, CA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 27, 1:47 PM PST | Winter Storm Warning | HNX | Fresno, Kern, Madera, Mariposa, Tulare | 5 days |
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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.