Tornado, Kings
- When
- March 12, 2:25 PM PST to 2:30 PM PST
- Where
- Kings County, Hanford to 3 mi of Hanford
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.1 mi
- Path width
- 1 yd
- Property damage
- $10,000
- Coordinates
- 36.380, -119.650
Tornado in California, March 12, 1996
This small F0 tornado ran S-to-N through a residential area of Hanford. Small trees were toppled, lawn furniture lifted and deposited into a pool, fences knocked down, and trash cans displaced.
Where it happened
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- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $10,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
What happened
The episode as NWS HNX wrote it up.
This small F0 tornado ran S-to-N through a residential area of Hanford. Small trees were toppled, lawn furniture lifted and deposited into a pool, fences knocked down, and trash cans displaced.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Tornado
- A violently rotating column of air in contact with the ground and extending from a thunderstorm, filed with its path, width and Fujita or Enhanced Fujita rating from the damage survey.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- High Surf in California, March 12, 1996
- Tornado in California, March 12, 1996
- Heavy Snow in Wyoming, March 12 to 13, 1996
- Heavy Snow in California, March 12 to 13, 1996
- Wildfire in New Mexico, March 12 to 19, 1996
- Funnel Cloud in California, March 12, 1996
- Hail in California, March 12, 1996
- Hail in California, March 12, 1996
- Hail in California, March 12, 1996
- Hail in California, March 12, 1996
- Hail in California, March 12, 1996
- Funnel Cloud in California, March 12, 1996
More
Every storm in California in 1996Every state in 1996This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for California, 1996Warnings in California, March 1996
Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5581286.