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Wind Advisory 27, NWS Hanford, CA

May 1, 2025Kern County, California

NWS Hanford, CA issued this wind advisory at May 1, 2025, 12:52 PM PDT for Kern County, California. It took effect at May 3, 2025, 2:00 PM PDT. It was in force for 18 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 1, 2025, 12:52 PM PDT (19:52 UTC)
In effect from
May 3, 2025, 2:00 PM PDT
Expired
May 4, 2025, 8:00 AM PDT
In force
18 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 19:53 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

Vandenberg AFB, CA (KVBG), launched 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 175 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, Vandenberg AFB, CA at 12:00Z on 2025-05-01Temperature 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, Vandenberg AFB, CA at 12:00Z on 2025-05-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 27 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
1511 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
27 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
22 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
Apr 30, 6:01 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementHNXMadera44 min
May 1, 1:50 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementHNXKern25 min
May 1, 2:29 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementHNXKern31 min
May 1, 2:54 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementHNX36 min
May 1, 3:38 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementHNXKern22 min
May 1, 4:19 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementHNX26 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.