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Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Hanford, CA

July 14, 2024Kern County, California

NWS Hanford, CA issued this flash flood warning at Jul 14, 2024, 7:11 PM PDT for Kern County, California. It was in force for 107 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 14, 2024, 7:11 PM PDT (02:11 UTC)
Expired
Jul 14, 2024, 8:58 PM PDT
In force
107 min
Issued by
NWS Hanford, CA
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
None

County Kern County, CA

The radar

The Edwards AFB radar (KEYX), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:12 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 00:00Z, 2.2 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Las Vegas, NV at 00:00Z on 2024-07-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 25 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 2024-07-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 4 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
25 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-158 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
3942 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
7 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-46 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
Jul 14, 5:06 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementHNX54 min
Jul 14, 5:49 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementHNX26 min
Jul 14, 6:44 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementHNX61 min
Jul 14, 6:56 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementHNX49 min
Jul 14, 7:58 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementHNX47 min
Jul 15, 12:47 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementHNXMariposa43 min
Jul 15, 1:45 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementHNXMariposa45 min
Jul 15, 2:08 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementHNXMariposa37 min
Jul 15, 3:31 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementHNXMadera44 min

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.