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Wind Advisory 16, NWS Hanford, CA
NWS Hanford, CA issued this wind advisory at Mar 12, 2024, 10:00 AM PDT for Fresno County, Madera County, Merced County, California. It took effect at Mar 13, 2024, 11:00 PM PDT. It was in force for 26 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 12, 2024, 10:00 AM PDT (17:00 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 13, 2024, 11:00 PM PDT
- Expired
- Mar 15, 2024, 12:46 AM PDT
- In force
- 26 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Hanford, CA
Counties Fresno County, CA, Madera County, CA, Merced County, CA
The radar
The San Joaquin Valley radar (KHNX), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:02 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Oakland, CA (KOAK), launched 12:00Z, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 205 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
- 638 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 230 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 321 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 12, 10:00 AM PDT | High Wind Watch | HNX | Fresno, Kern, Madera, Mariposa, Tulare, Tuolumne | 15 hr |
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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.