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High Wind Warning 4, NWS Hanford, CA

February 3, 20244 counties in California

NWS Hanford, CA issued this high wind warning at Feb 3, 2024, 10:45 AM PST for 4 counties in California. It took effect at Feb 3, 2024, 10:00 PM PST. It was in force for 24 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 3, 2024, 10:45 AM PST (18:45 UTC)
In effect from
Feb 3, 2024, 10:00 PM PST
Expired
Feb 4, 2024, 10:00 PM PST
In force
24 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 18:45 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

Oakland, CA (KOAK), launched 12:00Z, 6.8 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Oakland, CA at 12:00Z on 2024-02-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3 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, Oakland, CA at 12:00Z on 2024-02-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 69 square meters per square second.1939587897117136Sfc1 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
3 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-16 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
826 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
68 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
69 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
162 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this high wind warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Hanford, CA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this high wind warning went out at Feb 3, 3:55 AM PST, 6 hours 50 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 3, 3:55 AM PST, 6 hours 50 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 3, 4:00 AM PSTWinter Storm WarningHNXFresno, Kern, Madera, Mariposa, Tulare, Tuolumne3 days
Feb 3, 7:44 AM PSTDense Fog AdvisoryHNXFresno, Kings, Tulare3 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.