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Flash Flood Warning 30, NWS Hanford, CA

December 25, 2025Fresno County, Tulare County, California

NWS Hanford, CA issued this flash flood warning at Dec 25, 2025, 1:26 PM PST for Fresno County, Tulare County, California. It was in force for 3 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: Dec 25, 2025, 1:26 PM PST (21:26 UTC)
Expired: Dec 25, 2025, 3:59 PM PST
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Hanford, CA
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Fresno County, CA, Tulare County, CA

The radar

The San Joaquin Valley radar (KHNX), 41 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:30 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

Oakland, CA (KOAK), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 298 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 596 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 70 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 268 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 293 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flash flood 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 flash flood warning went out at Dec 24, 3:33 PM PST, 21 hours 53 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 24, 3:33 PM PST, 21 hours 53 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Hanford, CA issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Dec 24, 4:31 PM PST	Special Weather Statement	HNX	Kings	44 min
Dec 24, 5:20 PM PST	Special Weather Statement	HNX	Madera	25 min
Dec 24, 6:56 PM PST	Areal Flood Warning	HNX	Kern	13 hr
Dec 25, 4:49 AM PST	Areal Flood Advisory	HNX	Fresno, Madera, Mariposa, Merced	107 min
Dec 25, 7:20 AM PST	Areal Flood Advisory	HNX	Fresno, Kings	3 hr
Dec 25, 7:33 AM PST	Areal Flood Advisory	HNX	Mariposa, Merced	3 hr
Dec 25, 7:59 AM PST	Special Weather Statement	HNX	Kings	31 min
Dec 25, 8:25 AM PST	Special Weather Statement	HNX	Fresno	35 min
Dec 25, 8:27 AM PST	Areal Flood Advisory	HNX	Fresno, Madera, Mariposa, Merced	110 min
Dec 25, 8:39 AM PST	Areal Flood Advisory	HNX	Fresno, Madera, Tulare	6 hr
Dec 25, 8:44 AM PST	Areal Flood Advisory	HNX	Fresno	2 hr
Dec 25, 9:29 AM PST	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	HNX	Fresno	9 hr
Dec 25, 9:32 AM PST	Special Weather Statement	HNX	Fresno	28 min
Dec 25, 10:21 AM PST	Areal Flood Advisory	HNX	Fresno, Kings, Tulare	4 hr
Dec 25, 12:11 PM PST	Areal Flood Advisory	HNX	Fresno, Kern, Kings, Tulare	90 min

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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.