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Red Flag Warning 3, NWS Hanford, CA

June 25, 2026Kern County, Tulare County, California

NWS Hanford, CA issued this red flag warning at Jun 25, 2026, 11:12 AM PDT for Kern County, Tulare County, California. It took effect at Jun 26, 2026, 9:00 AM PDT. It was in force for 38 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
Jun 25, 2026, 11:12 AM PDT (18:12 UTC)
In effect from
Jun 26, 2026, 9:00 AM PDT
Expired
Jun 27, 2026, 11:00 PM PDT
In force
38 hr
Issued by
NWS Hanford, CA

Counties Kern County, CA, Tulare County, CA

The radar

The San Joaquin Valley radar (KHNX), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:11 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, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 297 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 2026-06-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 23 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 2026-06-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -7 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
23 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-348 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2861 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-7 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
28 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
Jun 25, 10:18 AM PDTWind AdvisoryHNXFresno, Kern, Madera, Mariposa, Tulare, Tuolumne67 hr
Jun 25, 2:19 PM PDTLake Wind AdvisoryHNXFresno, Merced33 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.