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Wind Advisory 20, NWS Hanford, CA

March 16, 2025Kern County, California

NWS Hanford, CA issued this wind advisory at Mar 16, 2025, 2:16 AM PDT for Kern County, California. It took effect at Mar 17, 2025, 11:00 AM PDT. It was in force for 24 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 16, 2025, 2:16 AM PDT (09:16 UTC)
In effect from: Mar 17, 2025, 11:00 AM PDT
Expired: Mar 18, 2025, 10:51 AM PDT
In force: 24 hr
Issued by: NWS Hanford, CA

County Kern County, CA

The nearest sounding before it

Las Vegas, NV (KVEF), launched 00:00Z, 9.3 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-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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 2421 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 96 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 33 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 268 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 Mar 15, 9:34 PM PDT, 4 hours 42 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 15, 9:34 PM PDT, 4 hours 42 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
Mar 16, 2:16 AM PDT	High Wind Watch	HNX	Kern	10 hr
Mar 16, 11:55 AM PDT	High Wind Warning	HNX	Kern	47 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.