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Wind Advisory 63, NWS Hanford, CA

December 23, 2024Kern County, California

NWS Hanford, CA issued this wind advisory at Dec 23, 2024, 2:36 AM PST for Kern County, California. It took effect at Dec 24, 2024, 1:00 PM PST. It was in force for 14 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Dec 23, 2024, 2:36 AM PST (10:36 UTC)
In effect from
Dec 24, 2024, 1:00 PM PST
Expired
Dec 25, 2024, 2:55 AM PST
In force
14 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 10:38 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

Las Vegas, NV (KVEF), launched 00:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 310 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, Las Vegas, NV at 00:00Z on 2024-12-23Temperature 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, Las Vegas, NV at 00:00Z on 2024-12-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -4 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
3282 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
32 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
Dec 23, 2:04 AM PSTWinter Storm WarningHNXFresno, Madera, Mariposa, Tulare, Tuolumne38 hr
Dec 23, 2:36 AM PSTHigh Wind WarningHNXKern48 hr
Dec 23, 11:33 AM PSTFlood WatchHNXFresno, Kern, Madera, Mariposa, Merced, Tulare27 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.