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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Hanford, CA

April 5, 2024Fresno County, California

NWS Hanford, CA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 5, 2024, 3:31 PM PDT for Fresno County, California. It was in force for 29 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
Apr 5, 2024, 3:31 PM PDT (22:31 UTC)
Expired
Apr 5, 2024, 4:00 PM PDT
In force
29 min
Issued by
NWS Hanford, CA
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.0 in
Wind
50.0 mph

County Fresno County, CA

The radar

The San Joaquin Valley radar (KHNX), 49 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:33 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

Oakland, CA (KOAK), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 250 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 2024-04-05Temperature 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, Oakland, CA at 12:00Z on 2024-04-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 138 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
664 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
138 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
169 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
Apr 5, 9:02 AM PDTWind AdvisoryHNXKern20 hr
Apr 5, 10:25 AM PDTSpecial Weather StatementHNXKern35 min
Apr 5, 10:55 AM PDTSpecial Weather StatementHNXKern35 min
Apr 5, 11:24 AM PDTSpecial Weather StatementHNXKern36 min
Apr 5, 1:36 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementHNXKern24 min
Apr 5, 1:53 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementHNXKern37 min
Apr 5, 2:08 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementHNX37 min
Apr 5, 2:24 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementHNXKern36 min
Apr 5, 2:34 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementHNXFresno26 min
Apr 5, 2:35 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementHNXFresno25 min
Apr 5, 2:40 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementHNXFresno35 min
Apr 5, 2:49 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementHNXKern26 min
Apr 5, 2:56 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementHNXFresno34 min
Apr 5, 2:59 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementHNXFresno31 min
Apr 5, 3:11 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementHNXKings34 min
Apr 5, 3:23 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementHNXFresno37 min
Apr 5, 3:25 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementHNXKings35 min
Apr 5, 3:44 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementHNXFresno31 min
Apr 5, 3:51 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementHNXSan Benito24 min
Apr 5, 3:56 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementHNX34 min
Apr 5, 3:58 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementHNXFresno32 min
Apr 5, 4:04 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementHNXKern26 min
Apr 5, 4:13 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementHNX32 min
Apr 5, 4:25 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementHNX35 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.