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High Wind Warning 11, NWS Hanford, CA
NWS Hanford, CA issued this high wind warning at May 7, 2024, 12:04 AM PDT for Kern County, California. It took effect at May 7, 2024, 2:00 PM PDT. It was in force for 12 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
- May 7, 2024, 12:04 AM PDT (07:04 UTC)
- In effect from
- May 7, 2024, 2:00 PM PDT
- Expired
- May 8, 2024, 2:00 AM PDT
- In force
- 12 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 07:09 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, 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
- 3584 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 73 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 33 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 93 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 7, 12:04 AM PDT | Wind Advisory | HNX | Kern | 14 hr |
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.