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Winter Storm Warning 2, NWS Hanford, CA
NWS Hanford, CA issued this winter storm warning at Jan 4, 2024, 12:55 PM PST for 6 counties in California. It took effect at Jan 6, 2024, 12:00 PM PST. It was in force for 12 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 4, 2024, 12:55 PM PST (20:55 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 6, 2024, 12:00 PM PST
- Expired
- Jan 6, 2024, 11:46 PM PST
- In force
- 12 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Hanford, CA
Counties Fresno County, CA, Kern County, CA, Madera County, CA, Mariposa County, CA, Tulare County, CA, Tuolumne County, CA
The radar
The San Joaquin Valley radar (KHNX), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:58 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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
Vandenberg AFB, CA (KVBG), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 254 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
- 1026 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -74 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -4 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this winter storm warning 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 winter storm warning went out at Jan 3, 2:42 PM PST, 22 hours 13 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 3, 2:42 PM PST, 22 hours 13 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Hanford, CA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 4, 1:22 AM PST | Winter Storm Watch | HNX | Fresno, Kern, Madera, Mariposa, Tulare, Tuolumne | 12 hr |
| Jan 4, 12:43 PM PST | Wind Advisory | HNX | Kern | 23 hr |
| Jan 4, 12:55 PM PST | Winter Weather Advisory | HNX | Kern | 44 hr |
Nearby
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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.