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Wind Advisory 16, NWS Hanford, CA
NWS Hanford, CA issued this wind advisory at Apr 15, 2026, 9:57 AM PDT for Kern County, California. It took effect at Apr 15, 2026, 8:00 PM PDT. It was in force for 34 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 15, 2026, 9:57 AM PDT (16:57 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 15, 2026, 8:00 PM PDT
- Expired
- Apr 17, 2026, 5:40 AM PDT
- In force
- 34 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 17:00 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, 5.0 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3234 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 11 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -22 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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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.