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Wind Advisory 6, NWS Hanford, CA
NWS Hanford, CA issued this wind advisory at Jan 31, 2024, 12:11 AM PST for 7 counties in California. It took effect at Jan 31, 2024, 9:00 AM PST. It was in force for 19 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 31, 2024, 12:11 AM PST (08:11 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 31, 2024, 9:00 AM PST
- Expired
- Feb 1, 2024, 4:00 AM PST
- In force
- 19 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Hanford, CA
Counties Fresno County, CA, Kern County, CA, Kings County, CA, Madera County, CA, Mariposa County, CA, Merced County, CA, Tulare County, CA
The nearest sounding before it
Vandenberg AFB, CA (KVBG), launched 00:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 225 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
- 1824 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -50 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -10 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this wind advisory 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 wind advisory went out at Jan 30, 5:19 PM PST, 6 hours 52 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 30, 5:19 PM PST, 6 hours 52 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Hanford, CA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 30, 11:46 PM PST | Winter Storm Warning | HNX | Fresno, Kern, Madera, Mariposa, Tulare, Tuolumne | 61 hr |
| Jan 31, 12:11 AM PST | High Wind Warning | HNX | Kern | 28 hr |
| Jan 31, 12:28 PM PST | Flood Watch | HNX | Fresno, Kern, Madera, Mariposa, Merced, Tulare | 40 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.