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Wind Advisory 3, NWS Hanford, CA
NWS Hanford, CA issued this wind advisory at Jan 5, 2024, 12:17 PM PST for Kern County, California. It took effect at Jan 6, 2024, 4:00 PM PST. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 5, 2024, 12:17 PM PST (20:17 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 6, 2024, 4:00 PM PST
- Expired
- Jan 6, 2024, 11:37 PM PST
- In force
- 8 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 20:18 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Vandenberg AFB, CA (KVBG), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 175 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
- 1522 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -103 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -42 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 5, 12:08 PM PST | High Wind Warning | HNX | Kern | 46 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.