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Flash Flood Warning 18, NWS Hanford, CA

November 15, 2025Kern County, California

NWS Hanford, CA issued this flash flood warning at Nov 15, 2025, 3:43 PM PST for Kern County, California. It was in force for 80 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Nov 15, 2025, 3:43 PM PST (23:43 UTC)
Expired
Nov 15, 2025, 5:03 PM PST
In force
80 min
Issued by
NWS Hanford, CA
Area
Storm-based polygon
Damage threat
Considerable
Flood severity
None

County Kern County, CA

The radar

The Edwards AFB radar (KEYX), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:42 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 12:00Z, 11.7 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 12:00Z on 2025-11-15Temperature 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 12:00Z on 2025-11-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 51 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
1835 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
51 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
94 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
Nov 14, 8:24 PM PSTAreal Flood AdvisoryHNXKern3 hr
Nov 15, 2:32 AM PSTWinter Weather AdvisoryHNXFresno, Kern, Madera, Mariposa, Tulare, Tuolumne4 days
Nov 15, 10:46 AM PSTSpecial Weather StatementHNXKern44 min
Nov 15, 11:03 AM PSTAreal Flood AdvisoryHNXKern6 hr
Nov 15, 11:28 AM PSTSpecial Weather StatementHNXKern32 min
Nov 15, 11:55 AM PSTAreal Flood AdvisoryHNXKern8 hr
Nov 15, 12:03 PM PSTSpecial Weather StatementHNX27 min
Nov 15, 12:07 PM PSTAreal Flood AdvisoryHNXKern8 hr
Nov 15, 12:20 PM PSTAreal Flood WarningHNXKern5 hr
Nov 15, 12:37 PM PSTAreal Flood AdvisoryHNXKern, Tulare11 hr
Nov 15, 12:42 PM PSTFlash Flood WarningHNXKern2 hr
Nov 15, 1:30 PM PSTFlash Flood WarningHNXKern3 hr
Nov 15, 2:54 PM PSTAreal Flood AdvisoryHNXFresno, Kern, Kings3 hr
Nov 15, 3:50 PM PSTSpecial Weather StatementHNX25 min

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.