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Winter Storm Warning 2, NWS Hanford, CA
NWS Hanford, CA issued this winter storm warning at Feb 9, 2026, 12:19 PM PST for 4 counties in California. It took effect at Feb 9, 2026, 10:00 PM PST. It was in force for 42 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
- Feb 9, 2026, 12:19 PM PST (20:19 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 9, 2026, 10:00 PM PST
- Expired
- Feb 11, 2026, 4:00 PM PST
- In force
- 42 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Hanford, CA
Counties Fresno County, CA, Madera County, CA, Mariposa County, CA, Tuolumne County, CA
The radar
The San Joaquin Valley radar (KHNX), 121 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:22 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
Reno, NV (KREV), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 280 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
- 11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -50 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 970 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 69 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 102 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 139 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Hanford, CA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 8, 4:32 PM PST | Dense Fog Advisory | HNX | Fresno, Kern, Kings, Madera, Mariposa, Merced and 1 more | 18 hr |
| Feb 9, 12:48 PM PST | Wind Advisory | HNX | Fresno, Kern, Kings, Merced | 48 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.